When 16 enough
It's funny niggas, it's on my mind lately 16 ain't enough, having a dope beat, dope idea 16 bars enough! How the fuck can I squeeze my whole into a 16 bar verse? You know, so many levels, when 16 ain't enough, to living your life Depicting with your wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, what life means to you 16 enough
I know gonna feel me on this one You feel me on this one
Huh, funny how things change, funny how time fly More than my travel, the more that I feel fly More that I now, the more that the chicks smile She call me a nigga, I opened a Swiss account status Etta James on the dash John Coltrane in the Cadillac Seville, feel my on the real We the Last Poets so is a world premiere Rolling like Jagger, the women just getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Clapton And all I wanted was one 16 enough Talking that fast money 15 every your people labelled poor, that motivated me more Everything I ever wore was once worn Roll with the punches now it's box office Dressed like Sammy Davis, my marijuana MGs, double M fees We in hood, nigga, government cheese and Yacht Masters, Old Dirty Bastard Floor seat for the Heat paper that I'm Better put away a penny for the days Pick and roll, give and go, a fade away like Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles Started off with a scribble, now I'm flowing a She say my heart cold I'm my son December Whitney died night before the Grammys, damn, what a 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 bacon and my queen Niggas hating, I'm just watchin' on the big 3 stacks on the and the kicks mean
When 16 ain't enough, you know how you got so much to say but When 16 ain't enough, they on they only 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 wanna give right to 'em you know When 16 ain't enough, but I only get 16, like a cage you know 16 ain't enough, I really can't say what I wanna say, you know it's just a glimpse That's all, one uh, one little single glimpse a page But I guess I'm defeating the of doing all this talking
'88, or was it '89 Or was it winter-time, ah, I'm in my room, boomin' drawin' LL Cool J album 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 would break up, before we'd tour them shake clubs Before my mama wake up, before my would cake up Before they 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, just a roof and And a Porsche, and a and unfor-tunately But of course an assort-ment of tor-ches that scor-ches the skin, when enter Intru-ders, tutors did a lousy job How's he god if he let's Lucifer let on us That noose on us loosen up but loose enough to juice us up us think we do so much and do it big Like they don't let us win, I pretend But I admit it, it feel when the hood pseudo-celebrate Hence why every time we dine we eat our belly aches Then go grab the finest and drink it like We know which grape and which region it from As if we can 'em, hint hint, it ain't um Welch's Hell just fell thousand more degrees cooler Y'all can't my worth But when you try, you'll a ruler made by all the Greek gods Because the odds always been stacked against me when back's against the wall I feel right at home, y'all sitting at home All Kelly green with while I'm jelly beans descending Into the palm of a child, looks up at mama and such a devilish grin, Like "where the hell have you been" She yelling selling's a sin, well so is telling young men That selling is a sin, if you offer new ways to win A dolphin gone shake his fin, if he is in Or out of water, most important 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 Hole had scowl on his arm? And I set off alarms, when camera's snap snap snap snap fire, pa-pa-pa, pa, pa-pa, pa, pa, pa They'll learn why, near privacy, so They won't make no laws, I break their laws they see out our window I take the fall to them all treat human kind more gentle Forsake them all, I hate all, don't like em don't pretend to Yea something tells me, we ain't in Kansas All that shit that used to be cool cool anymore All the women you been pursuing, now want more And they deserve it all, don't settle for ain't yours
When 16 ain't enough, 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, break down) Does your mama you see me, does she know you're freaky? Does she ever if it's 'bout ya I am speaking? Do you ever 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 think you perfect, does he for certain? Does he know how you act you pull back all them curtains? Do he think I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm black and put them in? he know his daughter might have caught a real merman yeah?
It's because, cause you're a changer But because we love you, we go that extra mile, break it down for 'em huh, (Next level) (Amazing)