When 16 enough
It's niggas, it's been on my mind lately When 16 ain't enough, having a beat, dope idea 16 ain't enough! How the can I squeeze my whole life into a 16 bar verse? You know, so many different levels, when 16 enough, to living your life Depicting with your wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly life means to you 16 ain't
I know y'all gonna feel me on one You gotta me on this one
Huh, funny how things change, funny how time fly More than my feet travel, the more I feel fly More I make now, the more that the chicks smile She call me a local nigga, I opened a Swiss Eisenhower Etta James on the dash John Coltrane in the Cadillac Seville, feel my on the real We the Last Poets so this is a world Rolling like Mick Jagger, the women just getting All I see is the money, cream, Clapton And all I wanted was one 16 enough Talking fast money 15 every month When your people labelled poor, that motivated me Everything I ever wore was worn before Roll the punches now it's box office numbers Dressed like Davis, steamin' my marijuana MGs, double M fees We in every hood, nigga, cheese Yachts and Masters, Old Dirty Bastard Floor seat for the paper that I'm stackin' Better put a penny for the rainy days Pick and roll, give and go, fuck a away Livin' like Scottie Pippen, dribble for vittles Started off a scribble, now I'm flowing a river She say my heart cold I'm my son December Whitney died night before the Grammys, damn, what a Trump Tower and I started with a 10 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 just watchin' on the big 3 on the beat and the kicks 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 like I mean I got so much to say ya know The world has so much to me, I just 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 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 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 hook my up I'm tryna pull my grades up, to get them lace ups Before Le marc was Jacob, them girls wore makeup Before my voice would break up, before we'd tour them shake Before my mama wake up, my palms would cake up Before they me they love me and we'll never breakup Before the time she love, to someone that I thought was, my homeboy But boy was, I now I don't budge, want much, just a roof and porch And a Porsche, and a horse and But of an assort-ment of tor-ches that scor-ches the skin, when they enter Intru-ders, whose did a lousy job How's he god if he let's let loose on us That noose on us won't loosen up but 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 the hood pseudo-celebrate Hence why every time we dine we eat until our belly Then go grab the finest wine and it like We know which grape and which it came 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 a ruler made by all the Greek gods 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 green with envy while I'm jelly beans descending Into the palm of a child, up at mama and smiles With such a devilish grin, Like "where the hell you been" She yelling that selling's a sin, well so is telling 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 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, near privacy, so They won't make no laws, I break 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, don't em don't pretend to Yea something tells me, we ain't in Kansas All that shit that used to be cool ain't cool All the women you been pursuing, now want more And they deserve it all, don't settle for ain't yours
16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh yeah, oh yeah
When 16 ain't enough, 16 ain't enough, ooh (When 16 ain't enough) yeah, oh yeah (When 16 ain't enough)
(Break down, down) Does your mama know you see me, does she know you're freaky? Does she ever wonder if it's ya I am speaking? Do you ponder where I'm at when you get sleepy? How the hell I'm gonna the youth don't be me? Yea, ha ha
(I love it) Does your daddy think you perfect, does he know for Does he know how you act when you pull back all curtains? Do he think I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm and put them works 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)