When 16 enough
It's funny niggas, it's been on my lately When 16 ain't enough, having a beat, dope idea 16 bars enough! How the fuck can I squeeze my life 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 ain't
I know y'all gonna feel me on one You feel me on this one
Huh, funny how things change, funny how time fly More than my feet travel, the more 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, feel my life on the We the Last Poets so this is a premiere Rolling like Jagger, the women just getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Clapton And all I wanted was one 16 ain't Talking that fast money 15 month When your labelled poor, that motivated me more Everything I ever was once worn before with the punches now it's box office numbers Dressed like Davis, steamin' my marijuana MGs, double M fees We in every hood, nigga, government Yachts and Masters, Old Dirty Bastard Floor seat for the paper that I'm stackin' Better put away a penny for the days Pick and roll, give and go, fuck a 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 and I started with a 10 speed Born broke had to use a nigga's Now I get a racks for the 16 up to turkey bacon and my thick queen Niggas hating, I'm watchin' on the big screen 3 stacks on the beat and the mean
When 16 enough, you know how sometimes you got so much to say but When 16 enough, they on they only give you 16, heh Man it's like I mean I got so to say ya know The has said so much 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 say, you know it's just a glimpse That's all, just one uh, one little glimpse a page But I I'm defeating the purpose of doing all this talking
'88, or was it '89 Or was it winter-time, ah, I'm in my room, drawin' LL Cool J album covers With on construction paper I'm trying to fuck my neighbor, I'm tryna my waves up I'm tryna pull my grades up, to get them lace ups Before Le marc was Jacob, before them wore makeup Before my voice would break up, before tour them shake clubs my mama wake up, before my palms would cake up Before they told me they love me and 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 and porch And a Porsche, and a and unfor-tunately But of course an assort-ment of tor-ches that the skin, when they enter Intru-ders, tutors did a lousy job How's he god if he Lucifer let loose on us That on us won't loosen up but loose 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 when the hood pseudo-celebrate why every time we dine we eat until our belly aches Then go grab the finest and drink it like We which grape and which region it came from As if we can name 'em, hint hint, it ain't um just fell three thousand more degrees cooler Y'all can't measure my But when you try, you'll a ruler made by all the Greek gods Because the odds have been stacked against me when back's against the wall I feel right at home, y'all right at home All Kelly green with envy while I'm jelly beans the palm of a child, looks up at mama and smiles With such a devilish grin, "where the hell have you been" She that selling's a sin, well so is telling young men That selling is a sin, if you don't offer new to win A dolphin gone shake his fin, if he is in Or out of water, most thing 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 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, privacy, so essential They won't make no laws, I break their till they see out our window I take the fall to make them all treat human kind more Forsake them all, I them all, don't like em don't pretend to Yea something tells me, we in Kansas anymore All shit that used to be cool ain't cool anymore All the women you been pursuing, now they want And they it all, don't settle for what ain't yours
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh yeah, oh
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh (When 16 enough) yeah, oh yeah (When 16 ain't enough)
(Break down, break down) Does your mama know you see me, does she know freaky? Does she ever 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 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 when you pull back all them Do he think I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm and put them works in? Does he know his daughter might have a real merman yeah?
It's funny because, you're a changer But because we love you, we go that extra mile, break it for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)