When 16 enough
It's funny niggas, it's been on my mind When 16 ain't enough, a dope beat, dope idea 16 bars enough! How the fuck can I squeeze my whole life into a 16 bar You know, so many different levels, when 16 ain't enough, to living life with your wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly what life means to you 16 enough
I know gonna feel me on this one You gotta me on this one
Huh, it's funny how things change, funny how fly More than my feet travel, the more I feel fly More that I make now, the more the chicks smile She me a local nigga, I opened a Swiss account Eisenhower status Etta on the dash John cruising in the Cadillac Seville, my life on the real We the Poets so this is a world premiere Rolling like Mick Jagger, the just getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Eric And all I wanted was one 16 ain't Talking fast money 15 every month When your people labelled poor, that motivated me Everything I ever wore was once before with the punches now it's box office numbers Dressed Sammy Davis, steamin' my marijuana Double MGs, double M We in hood, nigga, government cheese Yachts and Yacht Masters, Old Bastard seat for the Heat paper that I'm stackin' Better put away a penny for the rainy Pick and roll, give and go, fuck a fade Livin' like Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for Started off with a scribble, now I'm a river She say my heart cold I'm my son December Whitney died night the Grammys, damn, what a memory Trump Tower and I started with a 10 Born broke had to use a nigga's Now I get a racks for the 16 Waking up to turkey bacon and my thick Niggas hating, I'm just on the big screen 3 stacks on the beat and the kicks
When 16 enough, you know how sometimes you got so much to say but When 16 ain't enough, they on only give you 16, heh Man like I mean I got so much to say ya know The world has said so much to me, I just wanna give right back to 'em you 16 ain't enough, but I only get 16, that's like a cage you know When 16 ain't enough, I really can't say I wanna say, you know it's just a glimpse That's all, just one uh, one single glimpse a page But I guess I'm defeating the purpose of all this talking
'88, or was it '89 Or was it winter-time, ah, I'm in my room, boomin' drawin' LL Cool J covers crayolas on construction paper I'm trying to my neighbor, I'm tryna hook my waves up I'm tryna pull my grades up, to get saddle lace ups Before Le marc was Jacob, before them girls makeup Before my voice would break up, before we'd tour them shake Before my mama wake up, before my palms would up they told me they love me and we'll never breakup Before the time she makes love, to someone I thought was, my homeboy But boy was, I now I don't budge, don't want much, a roof and porch And a Porsche, and a horse and But of course an of tor-ches that scor-ches the skin, when they enter Intru-ders, whose did a lousy job How's he god if he Lucifer let loose on us That noose on us won't loosen up but loose enough to us up Make us we do so much and do it big Like they don't let us win, I can't But I admit it, it feel good the hood pseudo-celebrate Hence why every time we dine we eat our belly aches Then go grab the finest wine and drink it We know which and which region it came from As if we can name 'em, hint hint, it ain't um Hell just fell three thousand more degrees Y'all can't measure my But when you try, need a ruler made by all the Greek gods the odds have always been stacked against me when back's against the wall I right at home, y'all sitting right at home All Kelly green envy while I'm jelly beans descending the palm of a child, looks up at mama and smiles With such a devilish grin, Like "where the have you been" She yelling that selling's a sin, well so is telling men That selling is a sin, if you don't new ways to win A dolphin gone shake his fin, if he is in Or out of water, important thing for him is to swim And flipper didn't hold his nose, so why shall I hold my I miss the that O' and Market Hole had scowl on his arm? And I set off these alarms, camera's snap snap snap snap fire, pa-pa-pa, pa, pa-pa, pa, pa, pa They'll why, near privacy, so essential They won't make no laws, I break their laws till see out our window I take the to make them all treat human kind more gentle Forsake all, I hate them all, don't like em don't pretend to Yea something tells me, we ain't in anymore All that that used to be cool ain't cool anymore All the women you pursuing, now they want more And they deserve it all, don't settle for ain't yours
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 enough, ooh yeah, oh yeah
16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh (When 16 ain't enough) yeah, oh yeah (When 16 ain't enough)
(Break down, break down) Does your mama you see me, does she know you're freaky? Does she wonder if it's 'bout ya I am speaking? Do you ponder where I'm at when you get sleepy? How the hell I'm gonna tell the youth be me? Yea, ha ha
(I love it) Does your daddy you perfect, does he know for certain? he know how you act when you pull back all them curtains? Do he I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm black and put them works in? Does he know his daughter might have caught a real yeah?
It's funny because, you're a changer But because we you, we go that extra mile, break it down for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)