When 16 ain't
It's funny niggas, it's on my mind lately When 16 ain't enough, having a dope beat, dope 16 bars enough! How the fuck can I squeeze my life into a 16 bar verse? You know, so many different levels, 16 ain't enough, to living your life with your wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly what life means to you 16 ain't
I y'all gonna feel me on this one You gotta me on this one
Huh, it's funny how things change, funny how fly More 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 Swiss Eisenhower status Etta 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 Mick Jagger, the women just getting All I see is the money, cream, Clapton And all I was one 16 ain't enough Talking that fast 15 every month When your people labelled poor, that motivated me Everything I ever wore was once worn Roll with the punches now it's box numbers like Sammy Davis, steamin' my marijuana Double MGs, 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 rainy Pick and roll, give and go, a fade away Livin' like Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for off with a scribble, now I'm flowing a river She say my heart I'm naming my son December Whitney died before the Grammys, damn, what a memory Trump and I started with a 10 speed Born had to use a nigga's instincts Now I get a racks for the 16 up to turkey bacon and my thick queen Niggas hating, I'm just on the big screen 3 stacks on the and the kicks mean
When 16 ain't enough, you know how sometimes you got so to say but When 16 ain't enough, they on they 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 just wanna right back to 'em you know When 16 ain't enough, but I only get 16, that's like a you know 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 single glimpse Just a 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 With crayolas on paper I'm trying to fuck my neighbor, I'm tryna my waves up I'm pull my grades up, to get them saddle lace ups Before Le marc was Jacob, them girls wore makeup my voice would break up, before we'd tour them shake clubs Before my mama wake up, before my would cake up Before they told me they love me and we'll never Before the time she love, to someone 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 assort-ment of that scor-ches the skin, when they enter Intru-ders, tutors did a lousy job he god if he let's Lucifer let loose on us That noose on us won't up but loose enough to juice us up Make us we do so much and do it big Like don't let us win, I can't pretend But I admit it, it feel good when the hood 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 it came from As if we can name 'em, hint hint, it um Welch's Hell just fell thousand more degrees cooler can't measure my worth But when you try, you'll need a ruler made by all the gods Because the odds have always stacked against me when back's against the wall I right at home, y'all sitting right at home All Kelly green with envy I'm jelly beans descending Into the palm of a child, looks up at and smiles With such a grin, Like "where the hell have 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 dolphin gone shake his fin, if he is in Or out of water, most important thing for him is to And flipper didn't hold his nose, so why I hold my tongue? I miss the that O' and Market Hole had scowl on his arm? And I set off these alarms, when snap snap snap snap fire, pa-pa-pa, pa, pa-pa, pa, pa, pa They'll learn why, near privacy, so They make no laws, I break their laws till they see out our window I take the fall to make them all treat human kind more 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 ain't cool anymore All the women you been pursuing, now they more And deserve it all, don't settle for what 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 (When 16 ain't enough)
(Break down, break down) Does your mama know you see me, does she you're freaky? Does she ever if it's 'bout ya I am speaking? Do you ever ponder where I'm at when you get How the hell I'm gonna 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 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 funny because, you're a changer But because we you, we go that extra mile, break it down for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)