When 16 ain't
It's funny niggas, it's been on my mind When 16 ain't enough, having a beat, dope idea 16 ain't enough! How the fuck can I my whole life into a 16 bar verse? You know, so many different levels, when 16 ain't enough, to living life Depicting with wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly what life means to you 16 enough
I know gonna feel me on this one You feel me on this one
Huh, it's funny how things change, how time fly More than my travel, the more that I feel fly More that I make now, the that the chicks smile She call me a local nigga, I a Swiss account Eisenhower Etta James on the dash John cruising in the Cadillac Seville, my life on the real We the Last so this is a world premiere Rolling like Mick Jagger, the just getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Eric And all I wanted was one 16 ain't Talking fast money 15 every month When people labelled poor, that motivated me more Everything I ever wore was worn before Roll with the punches now it's box numbers Dressed Sammy Davis, steamin' my marijuana MGs, double M fees We in every hood, nigga, cheese Yachts and Yacht Masters, Old Dirty Floor seat for the Heat that I'm stackin' put away a penny for the rainy days Pick and roll, give and go, fuck a away Livin' like Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for Started off with a scribble, now I'm a river She say my heart cold I'm my son December died 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 hundred for the 16 Waking up to turkey and my thick queen Niggas hating, I'm just watchin' on the big 3 stacks on the beat and the mean
When 16 ain't enough, you 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 much to say ya The world has said so much to me, I just wanna give right 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 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, boomin' drawin' LL J album covers With crayolas on construction I'm trying to fuck my neighbor, I'm tryna my waves up I'm pull my grades up, to get them saddle lace ups Before Le marc was Jacob, them girls wore makeup Before my voice would break up, before tour them shake clubs Before my mama wake up, before my palms cake up Before they told me they love me and never breakup Before the time she makes love, to 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 course an assort-ment of tor-ches that the skin, when they enter Intru-ders, tutors did a lousy job How's he god if he let's let loose on us noose 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 let us win, I can't pretend 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 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 more degrees cooler can't measure my worth But when you try, you'll need a ruler by all the Greek gods Because the have always been stacked against me when back's against the wall I feel right at home, y'all sitting right at All Kelly with envy while I'm jelly beans descending the palm of a child, looks up at mama and smiles With a devilish grin, Like "where the hell have you been" She yelling selling's a sin, well so is telling young men That selling is a sin, if you don't new ways 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 that O' and Hole had scowl on his arm? And I set off these alarms, when snap 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 till they see out our window I the fall to make them all treat human kind more gentle them all, I hate them all, don't like em don't pretend to Yea something me, we ain't in Kansas anymore All that shit that used to be cool ain't anymore All the women you been pursuing, now they more And they deserve it all, don't settle for what ain't
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 enough, ooh yeah, oh yeah
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 enough, ooh (When 16 ain't enough) yeah, oh yeah (When 16 ain't enough)
(Break down, break down) Does your mama know you see me, does she you're freaky? Does she ever if it's 'bout ya I am speaking? Do you ponder 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 daddy think you perfect, does he for certain? Does he know how you act when you pull back all them Do he think I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm black and put works in? Does he know his daughter might have caught a real yeah?
It's funny because, you're a changer But because we love you, we go that extra mile, it down for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)