When 16 enough
It's funny niggas, been on my mind lately When 16 enough, having a dope 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, 16 ain't enough, exactly what life means to you 16 ain't
I know y'all feel me on this one You feel me on this one
Huh, it's funny how change, funny how time fly than my feet travel, the more that I feel fly More I make now, the more that the chicks smile She call me a local nigga, I opened a account Eisenhower status Etta James on the Coltrane cruising in the Cadillac Seville, my life on the real We the Last so this is a world premiere Rolling like Mick Jagger, the women getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Eric And all I wanted was one 16 ain't that fast money 15 every month When your people labelled poor, that me more Everything I ever wore was once worn Roll the punches now it's box office numbers Dressed like Sammy Davis, steamin' my Double MGs, 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 a penny for the rainy days Pick and roll, give and go, fuck a away Livin' Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles Started off a scribble, now I'm flowing a river She say my heart cold I'm naming my son Whitney died night the Grammys, damn, what a memory Tower and I started with a 10 speed Born had to use a nigga's instincts Now I get a hundred for the 16 Waking up to turkey bacon and my queen hating, I'm just watchin' on the big screen 3 stacks on the beat and the kicks
When 16 enough, you know how sometimes you got so much to say but When 16 ain't enough, they on 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 know it's just a That's all, one uh, one little single glimpse a page But I guess I'm defeating the purpose of doing all this
'88, or was it '89 Or was it winter-time, ah, I'm in my room, boomin' LL Cool J album covers With crayolas on paper I'm trying to my neighbor, I'm tryna hook my waves up I'm tryna pull my grades up, to get them saddle ups Le marc was Jacob, before them girls wore makeup Before my voice would break up, before we'd tour shake clubs my mama wake up, before my palms would cake up Before they told me 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 much, just a roof and porch And a Porsche, and a horse and But of course an assort-ment of tor-ches scor-ches the skin, when they enter Intru-ders, tutors did a lousy job How's he god if he Lucifer let loose on us That noose on us won't loosen up but loose enough to us up Make us we do so much and do it big Like they let us win, I can't pretend But I admit it, it feel when the hood pseudo-celebrate Hence why every time we we eat until our belly aches Then go grab the finest wine and drink it We know which grape and which region it came As if we can 'em, hint hint, it ain't um Welch's Hell just fell three thousand degrees cooler Y'all can't measure my But when you try, you'll need a ruler made by all the Greek Because the odds have been stacked against me when back's against the wall I feel right at home, y'all sitting right at All Kelly green with envy while I'm jelly descending Into the palm of a child, looks up at mama and With a devilish grin, Like "where the hell have you been" She yelling that a sin, well so is telling young men That is a sin, if you don't offer new ways to win A dolphin gone his fin, regardless if he is in Or out of water, important 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 Market Hole had scowl on his And I set off these alarms, camera's snap snap snap snap fire, pa-pa-pa, pa, pa-pa, pa, pa, pa They'll why, near privacy, so essential won't make no laws, I break their laws till they see out our window I take the fall to them all treat human kind more gentle Forsake them all, I hate them all, don't like em don't to Yea tells me, we ain't in Kansas anymore All that shit that to be cool ain't cool anymore All the women you been pursuing, now want more And they deserve it all, don't settle for what yours
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh yeah, oh
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 'bout ya I am 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) Does daddy think you perfect, does he know for certain? Does he how you act when you pull back all them curtains? Do he think I'm 2Pac I'm black and put them works in? he know his daughter might have caught a real merman yeah?
It's funny because, you're a changer But because we love you, we go that extra mile, break it down for 'em huh, (Next level) (Amazing)