When 16 enough
funny niggas, it's been on my mind lately When 16 ain't enough, having a dope beat, dope 16 ain't enough! How the fuck can I my whole life into a 16 bar verse? You know, so many different levels, 16 ain't enough, to living your life Depicting with your wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly what means to you 16 enough
I know y'all gonna me on this one You feel me on this one
Huh, it's funny how things change, funny how fly than my feet 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 Etta James on the dash Coltrane cruising in the Cadillac Seville, feel my on the real We the Last Poets so this is a world Rolling Mick Jagger, the women just getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Clapton And all I wanted was one 16 ain't Talking fast money 15 every month When your people labelled poor, that me more I ever wore was once worn before Roll with the punches now it's box office Dressed Sammy Davis, steamin' my marijuana Double MGs, double M We in every hood, nigga, government and Yacht Masters, Old Dirty Bastard Floor for the Heat paper that I'm stackin' Better put a penny for the rainy days Pick and roll, and go, fuck a fade away Livin' Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles Started off with a scribble, now I'm a river She say my heart cold I'm naming my son Whitney died night before the Grammys, damn, a memory Tower and I started with a 10 speed Born had to use a nigga's instincts Now I get a hundred for the 16 Waking up to turkey bacon and my thick Niggas hating, I'm watchin' 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, on they only give you 16, heh Man it's like I mean I got so much to say ya The world has said so much to me, I wanna give right back to 'em you know 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 what I wanna say, you know just a glimpse That's all, just one uh, one little glimpse a page But I guess I'm defeating the purpose of doing all this
'88, or was it '89 Or was it winter-time, ah, I'm in my room, boomin' drawin' LL Cool J album With crayolas on paper I'm trying to my neighbor, I'm tryna hook my waves up I'm pull my grades up, to get them saddle lace ups Before Le was Jacob, before them girls wore makeup Before my voice would up, before we'd tour them shake clubs my mama wake up, before my palms would cake up Before they told me love me and we'll never breakup Before the time she makes love, to that 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 assort-ment of tor-ches that scor-ches the skin, they enter Intru-ders, tutors did a lousy job he god if he let's Lucifer let loose on us That noose on us loosen up but loose enough to juice us up Make us think we do so and do it big Like don't let us win, I can't pretend But I admit it, it feel good when the pseudo-celebrate Hence why every time we dine we eat until our aches Then go grab the finest wine and drink it We know which grape and which region it from As if we can 'em, hint hint, it ain't um Welch's Hell fell three thousand more degrees cooler Y'all measure my worth But when you try, you'll need a ruler by all the Greek gods Because the have always been stacked against me when back's against the wall I feel at home, y'all sitting right at home All green with envy while I'm jelly beans descending the palm of a child, looks up at mama and smiles With such a grin, Like "where the hell 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 gone shake his fin, regardless if he is in Or out of water, most important for him is to swim And didn't hold his nose, so why shall I hold my tongue? I miss the days O' and Market Hole had scowl on his arm? And I set off these alarms, when camera's 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 break their laws till see out our window I take the fall to make them all treat human more gentle Forsake them all, I hate them all, like em don't pretend to Yea something me, we ain't in Kansas anymore All that shit that used to be cool cool anymore All the women you pursuing, now they want more And deserve it all, don't settle for what ain't yours
When 16 enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh yeah, oh yeah
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh (When 16 ain't enough) yeah, oh yeah (When 16 enough)
(Break down, down) Does your mama know you see me, does she know you're freaky? Does she wonder if it's 'bout ya I am speaking? Do you ever where I'm at when 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? Does he know how you act when you pull back all curtains? Do he I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm black and put them works in? Does he know his daughter have caught a real merman yeah?
It's funny because, cause you're a But because we love you, we go that extra mile, break it for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)