When 16 enough
It's funny niggas, it's been on my mind When 16 ain't enough, a dope beat, dope idea 16 ain't enough! How the fuck can I squeeze my life into a 16 bar verse? You know, so many different levels, when 16 ain't enough, to living your Depicting with wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly what life means to you 16 ain't
I know y'all gonna feel me on one You feel me on this one
Huh, it's funny how things change, funny how fly More than my travel, the more that I feel fly More that I make now, the more the chicks smile She call me a local nigga, I opened a account Eisenhower status James on the dash John Coltrane cruising in the Seville, my life on the real We the Last Poets so is a world premiere like Mick Jagger, the women just getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Clapton And all I wanted was one 16 enough that fast money 15 every month When your people poor, that motivated me more Everything I ever wore was once before Roll the punches now it's box office numbers like Sammy Davis, steamin' my marijuana Double MGs, M fees We in every hood, nigga, cheese Yachts and Masters, Old Dirty Bastard Floor seat for the Heat that I'm stackin' Better put away a penny for the rainy Pick and roll, and go, fuck a fade away Livin' like Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for Started off with a scribble, now I'm flowing a She say my cold I'm naming my son December died night before the Grammys, damn, what a memory Trump and I started with a 10 speed Born broke had to use a nigga's Now I get a hundred for the 16 Waking up to turkey and my thick queen Niggas hating, I'm just watchin' on the big 3 stacks on the beat and the mean
When 16 ain't enough, you how sometimes you got so much to say but When 16 ain't enough, on they only give you 16, heh Man it's like I mean I got so to say ya know The world has said so to me, I just wanna give right back to 'em you know When 16 ain't enough, but I only get 16, that's like a cage you When 16 ain't enough, I really can't say what I wanna say, you 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 up, to get them saddle lace ups Le marc was Jacob, before them girls wore makeup Before my voice break up, before we'd tour them shake clubs Before my mama wake up, before my palms cake up Before they told me they me and we'll never breakup Before the time she love, to someone that I thought was, my homeboy But boy was, I now I don't budge, don't much, just a roof and porch And a Porsche, and a and unfor-tunately But of course an assort-ment of tor-ches 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 enough to juice us up Make us think we do so and do it big Like they let us win, I can't pretend But I admit it, it feel good when the pseudo-celebrate Hence why every time we we eat until our belly aches Then go the finest wine and drink it like We know which grape and which it came from As if we can name 'em, hint hint, it um Welch's Hell just fell three thousand more degrees can't measure my worth But when you try, you'll need a ruler made by all the gods Because the odds have always been stacked against me when against the wall I feel right at home, y'all sitting at home All Kelly with envy while I'm jelly beans descending Into the palm of a child, up at mama and smiles With such a devilish grin, Like "where the hell you been" She yelling that a sin, well so is telling young men That selling is a sin, if you don't offer new to win A gone shake his fin, regardless 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 days that O' and Market Hole had 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 learn why, privacy, so essential They won't make no laws, I their laws till they see out our window I take the fall to make them all treat human kind gentle Forsake them all, I hate all, don't like em don't pretend to Yea something tells me, we ain't in anymore All that shit used to be cool ain't cool anymore All the women you pursuing, now they want more And they deserve it all, settle for what ain't yours
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 enough, ooh yeah, oh yeah
When 16 enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh (When 16 ain't enough) yeah, oh yeah (When 16 ain't enough)
(Break down, down) Does your mama know you see me, does she know you're freaky? Does she ever wonder if it's ya I am speaking? Do you ever ponder where I'm at you get sleepy? How the I'm gonna tell the youth don't 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 think I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm and put them works in? Does he know his might have caught a real merman yeah?
It's funny because, you're a changer But we love you, we go that extra mile, break it down for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)