When 16 ain't
funny niggas, it's been on my mind lately When 16 ain't enough, having a beat, dope idea 16 bars enough! How the fuck can I my whole life into a 16 bar verse? You know, so many levels, when 16 ain't enough, to living your life Depicting 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 feel me on one
Huh, it's funny how things change, how time fly More my feet travel, the more that I feel fly More that I make now, the more that the chicks She call me a local nigga, I opened a Swiss Eisenhower status Etta James on the Coltrane cruising in the Cadillac Seville, my life on the real We the Last Poets so this is a world like Mick Jagger, the women just getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Clapton And all I was one 16 ain't enough Talking that money 15 every month When your people labelled poor, that me more Everything I ever wore was worn before with the punches now it's box office numbers Dressed like Sammy Davis, my marijuana Double MGs, M fees We in hood, nigga, government cheese Yachts and Masters, Old Dirty Bastard Floor seat for the Heat paper that I'm Better put away a for the rainy days and roll, give and go, fuck a fade away Livin' Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles Started off with a scribble, now I'm a river She say my heart cold I'm naming my son 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 bacon and my thick hating, I'm just watchin' on the big screen 3 stacks on the beat and the kicks
When 16 ain't enough, you know how you got so much to say but 16 ain't enough, they on they only give you 16, heh Man it's like I mean I got so to say ya know The world has said so to me, I just wanna give right back to 'em you know When 16 ain't enough, but I get 16, that's like a cage you know When 16 ain't enough, I really can't say what I wanna say, you know it's a glimpse That's all, just one uh, one little single 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 crayolas on construction paper I'm trying to fuck my neighbor, I'm tryna my waves up I'm tryna my grades up, to get them saddle lace ups Before Le marc was Jacob, before them girls makeup Before my voice would break up, before we'd tour shake clubs Before my mama wake up, before my palms 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, want much, just a roof and porch And a Porsche, and a and unfor-tunately But of an assort-ment of tor-ches that scor-ches the skin, when they enter Intru-ders, whose tutors did a job How's he god if he Lucifer let loose on us That noose on us won't loosen up but loose 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 the hood pseudo-celebrate Hence why every time we dine we eat until our aches go grab the finest wine and drink it like We know which grape and which it came from As if we can name 'em, hint, it ain't um Welch's Hell just fell three thousand more degrees Y'all measure my worth But you try, you'll need a ruler made by all the Greek gods the odds have always 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 beans descending Into the palm of a child, looks up at mama and With such a devilish grin, "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 dolphin shake his fin, regardless if he is in Or out of water, most important for him is to swim And flipper didn't hold his nose, so why shall I hold my I miss the days O' and Market Hole had scowl on his arm? And I set off these alarms, camera's snap 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 their laws till they see out our I take the fall to make them all treat kind more gentle them all, I hate them all, don't like em don't pretend to Yea something tells me, we ain't in anymore All that shit that used to be ain't cool anymore All the women you been pursuing, now they want And they deserve it all, don't for what ain't yours
When 16 enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh yeah, oh yeah
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh (When 16 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? she ever wonder 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 the youth 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 curtains? Do he think I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm black and put works in? Does he know his daughter might have caught a merman yeah?
It's because, cause you're a changer But because we love you, we go that extra mile, break it for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)