When 16 ain't
funny niggas, it's been on my mind lately When 16 ain't enough, a dope beat, dope idea 16 bars enough! How the fuck can I squeeze my life into a 16 bar verse? You know, so many different levels, when 16 ain't enough, to living your Depicting with wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly what life means to you 16 ain't
I know gonna feel me on this one You gotta feel me on one
Huh, it's funny how 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 me a local nigga, I opened a Swiss account Eisenhower Etta James on the dash John cruising in the Cadillac Seville, my life on the real We the Poets so this is a world premiere 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 your people labelled poor, that motivated me more Everything I ever wore was once worn Roll with the punches now it's box office Dressed like Sammy Davis, my marijuana Double MGs, M fees We in hood, nigga, government cheese Yachts and Masters, Old Dirty Bastard Floor for the Heat paper that I'm stackin' Better put a penny for the rainy days Pick and roll, give and go, fuck a away like Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles Started off with a scribble, now I'm flowing a She say my cold I'm naming my son December Whitney night before the Grammys, damn, what a memory Trump Tower and I started with a 10 Born broke had to use a instincts Now I get a racks for the 16 Waking up to 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 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 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 just a glimpse all, just one uh, one little single glimpse Just a But I I'm defeating the purpose 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 pull my grades up, to get them saddle ups Before Le marc was Jacob, them girls wore makeup my voice would break up, before we'd tour them shake clubs Before my wake up, before my palms would cake up they told me they love me and we'll never breakup Before the time she makes love, to that I thought was, my homeboy But boy was, I now I don't budge, don't want much, a roof 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, whose did a lousy job How's he god if he let's 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 they don't let us win, I can't But I admit it, it feel good when the hood Hence why every time we dine we eat until our aches Then go grab the finest and drink it like We know which grape and which region it came As if we can name 'em, hint, it ain't um Welch's Hell just three thousand more degrees cooler Y'all can't my worth But when you try, you'll a ruler made by all the Greek gods Because the odds have always been against me when back's against the wall I feel right at home, y'all right at home All green with envy while I'm jelly beans descending Into the palm of a child, looks up at mama and With such a devilish grin, Like "where the hell you been" She yelling selling's a sin, well so is telling young men That selling is a sin, if you offer new ways to win A dolphin gone his fin, regardless if he is in Or out of water, most 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 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 their laws till they see out our I take the fall to make them all treat human kind more Forsake them all, I hate them all, don't like em don't to Yea something tells me, we in Kansas anymore 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 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 enough) yeah, oh yeah (When 16 ain't enough)
(Break down, break down) Does your mama know you see me, she know you're freaky? Does she ever wonder if 'bout ya I am speaking? Do you ever ponder where I'm at you get sleepy? How the hell I'm tell 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 back all curtains? Do he think I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm black and put works in? Does he know his might have caught a real merman yeah?
It's funny because, cause you're a But because we love you, we go that mile, break it down for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)