When 16 ain't
It's funny niggas, it's been on my mind When 16 ain't enough, having a dope beat, idea 16 bars enough! How the can I squeeze my whole life into a 16 bar verse? You know, so many different levels, when 16 ain't enough, to your life Depicting your wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly what life means to you 16 ain't
I know gonna feel me on this one You feel me on this one
Huh, it's funny how 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 a Swiss account Eisenhower status James on the dash John cruising in the Cadillac Seville, feel my life on the We the Last Poets so this is a premiere Rolling like Mick Jagger, the women getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Eric And all I was one 16 ain't enough that fast money 15 every month When your people poor, that motivated me more I ever wore was once worn before Roll with the punches now it's box office like Sammy Davis, steamin' my marijuana Double MGs, double M We in every hood, nigga, government Yachts and Yacht Masters, Old Dirty Floor seat for the Heat that I'm stackin' Better put a penny for the rainy days Pick and roll, give and go, a fade away Livin' like Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles Started off with a scribble, now I'm a river She say my heart I'm naming my son December Whitney died night before the Grammys, damn, what a Trump Tower and I with a 10 speed Born broke had to use a instincts Now I get a hundred for the 16 Waking up to turkey and my thick queen Niggas hating, I'm just on the big screen 3 on the beat 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 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 you know When 16 ain't enough, I really can't say what I wanna say, you it's just a glimpse That's all, just one uh, one little glimpse a page But I guess I'm defeating the purpose of doing all talking
'88, or was it '89 Or was it winter-time, ah, I'm in my room, drawin' LL Cool J album covers With crayolas on paper I'm to fuck my neighbor, I'm tryna hook my waves up I'm tryna pull my up, to get them saddle lace ups Before Le was Jacob, before them girls wore makeup Before my voice break up, before we'd tour them shake clubs Before my mama wake up, my palms would cake up Before they told me love me and we'll never breakup Before the time she makes love, to someone that I thought was, my But boy was, I now I don't budge, don't 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 tutors did a job he god if he let's 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 don't let us win, I can't pretend But I admit it, it good when the hood pseudo-celebrate Hence why every time we we eat until our belly aches go grab the finest wine and drink it like We know grape and which region it came from As if we can name 'em, hint, it ain't um Welch's Hell fell three thousand more degrees cooler Y'all can't measure my But you try, you'll need a ruler made by all the Greek 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 while I'm jelly beans 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 selling's a sin, well so is young men That selling is a sin, if you don't offer new to win A gone shake his fin, regardless if he is in Or out of water, most important thing for him is to And didn't hold his nose, so why shall I hold my tongue? I miss the days that O' and Market Hole had 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 why, near privacy, so essential 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 used to be cool ain't cool anymore All the women you been pursuing, now want more And they deserve it all, don't for what ain't yours
When 16 ain't enough, 16 ain't enough, ooh yeah, oh yeah
When 16 enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh (When 16 ain't enough) yeah, oh yeah (When 16 ain't enough)
(Break down, break down) your mama know 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 I'm gonna tell the youth don't be me? Yea, ha ha
(I love it) Does your think you perfect, does he know for certain? Does he how you act when you pull back all them curtains? Do he I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm black and put them works in? Does he know his might have caught a real merman yeah?
It's funny because, cause a changer But because we love you, we go extra mile, break it down for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)