[4] West recorded with the Sunday Service Choir for their debut studio album Jesus Is Born (2019), which is credited solely to the group.

[5][6] Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic started, West's musical input mostly involved him assembling and directing live performances of the Sunday Service Choir.

[5] The Sunday Service Choir were one of the guest appearances on Donda to be revealed at the public listening parties, while they contributed additional vocals to six of the album's tracks outside of "24".

[14] Kenyan-American singer song-writer KayCyy Pluto, who has additional vocals on the track, stated that "24" is dedicated to Bryant and that West cried during the creation of the song.

[15] The rapper revealed that it was recorded 2 or 3 days after the crash, with him being invited to the studio and coming up with the "24 hours" part, to which West responded by singing along with "24 candles".

[11] "24" was written by West, Brian Miller, KayCyy Pluto, the duo Ojivolta that consists of Mark Williams and Raul Cubina, and Warryn Campbell.

[9] The track's organ was played by singer-songwriter Cory Henry, who recalled getting a call from Rick Rubin inviting him to record with West in San Francisco.

[27] At PopMatters, Tony DeGenaro named West singing "we gon' be okay" with the Sunday Service Choir "over a discordant organ playing for an imagined too-hot summertime congregation" as "a rare moment of humility" on the album.

[25] Writing for NME, Rhian Daly opined that West offers a reassuring message "of hope related to the big guy above" on the song.

[23] Vulture's Craig Jenkins viewed the song as calming and one of the best tracks of West's Christian era, further writing that it is "a muted worship-band vamp" with the Sunday Service Choir.

[24] In NPR, Mano Sundaresan lauded the song as a "glorious gospel cut" where West sings with confidence while "endearingly off-key, conversing with the organ stabs" that have "the soul of a seasoned vocalist".

[28] Aaron Loose of Christianity Today firmly believed that it is a "cathartic gospel song", alongside highlighting the "jubilant chorus".

[19] The New York Times critic Jon Caramanica noted how "24" does "sound like kin" to West's music made when he embraced gospel.

In a mixed review at HipHopDX, David Aaron Brake said that the "gorgeous" song demonstrates "excellent improvements" in West's singing abilities, though wrote off his "unfinished and haphazard" verses.

[30] He explained, observing the presence of "some of the weakest bars" of West's career and noting the consistent "lazy pop culture references and corny quips".

[33][21] The rapper is accompanied by a backdrop of footage and images of his mother Donda West from the one minute mark onwards, including her laughing and smiling.

[32][37] He appears to be ascending to heaven to meet Donda at one point and towards the music video's end, the clouds vanish into a digital void.