When 16 ain't
It's funny niggas, it's been on my lately 16 ain't enough, having a dope beat, dope idea 16 ain't enough! How the fuck can I my whole life into a 16 bar verse? You know, so many different levels, when 16 enough, to living your life with your 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 gotta feel me on one
Huh, it's funny how things change, funny how fly More than my feet travel, the more I feel fly that I make now, the more that the chicks smile She call me a nigga, I opened a Swiss account Eisenhower Etta James on the dash John Coltrane cruising in the Seville, feel my on the real We the Last Poets so is a world premiere Rolling like Mick Jagger, the women just getting All I see is the money, cream, Clapton And all I wanted was one 16 ain't Talking that fast money 15 every When your people labelled poor, motivated me more Everything I ever wore was once worn Roll with the now it's box office numbers Dressed like Davis, steamin' my marijuana MGs, double M fees We in every hood, nigga, cheese and Yacht Masters, Old Dirty Bastard Floor seat for the Heat paper that I'm put away a penny for the rainy days Pick and roll, give and go, fuck a fade like Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles Started off with a scribble, now I'm a river She say my heart cold I'm my son December Whitney night before the Grammys, damn, what a memory Trump Tower and I started a 10 speed broke had to use a nigga's instincts Now I get a hundred for the 16 Waking up to turkey and my thick queen Niggas hating, I'm watchin' on the big screen 3 stacks on the and the kicks mean
16 ain't 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 I mean I got so much to say ya know The world has said so much to me, I just give right back to 'em you know When 16 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 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 With crayolas on construction I'm trying to fuck my neighbor, I'm tryna my waves up I'm tryna my grades up, to get them saddle lace ups Before Le marc was Jacob, before girls wore makeup Before my voice would break up, we'd tour them shake clubs Before my mama wake up, before my palms cake up Before they told me they love me and we'll 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, just a and porch And a Porsche, and a and unfor-tunately But of course an of tor-ches that scor-ches the skin, when they enter Intru-ders, tutors did a lousy job How's he god if he Lucifer let loose on us That noose on us loosen up but loose enough to juice us up Make us we do so much and do it big Like they let us win, I can't pretend But I admit it, it feel when the hood pseudo-celebrate Hence why time we dine we eat until our belly aches Then go grab the finest wine and it like We know which grape and region it came from As if we can 'em, hint hint, it ain't um Welch's Hell just fell three thousand more cooler Y'all can't my worth But when you try, you'll need a ruler made by all the Greek Because the odds have always been stacked against me when back's the wall I right at home, y'all sitting right at home All Kelly green with envy while I'm beans descending the palm of a child, looks up at mama and smiles With a devilish grin, Like "where the hell have you been" She yelling that selling's a sin, well so is telling men selling is a sin, if you don't offer new ways to win A dolphin shake his fin, regardless if he is in Or out of water, most important for him is to swim And flipper didn't hold his nose, so why I hold my tongue? I miss the days that O' and Market Hole had scowl on his And I set off these alarms, when camera's snap snap snap fire, pa-pa-pa, pa, pa-pa, pa, pa, pa They'll why, near privacy, so essential won't make no laws, I break their laws till they see out our window I take the fall to make all treat human kind more gentle Forsake them all, I hate them all, don't like em don't to Yea something tells me, we in Kansas anymore All that shit that used to be cool ain't cool All the women you been pursuing, now they want And they deserve it all, don't settle for what ain't
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 ever wonder if 'bout 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) your daddy think you perfect, does he know for certain? Does he know how you act you pull back all them curtains? Do he think I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm and put them works in? Does he know his daughter might have caught a real merman
funny because, cause you're a changer But because we love you, we go that extra mile, break it for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)