When 16 enough
It's niggas, it's been on my mind lately When 16 enough, having a dope 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 your wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, what life means to you 16 enough
I know y'all gonna me on this one You feel me on this one
Huh, it's funny how things change, how time fly More my feet travel, the more that I feel fly More that I now, the more that the chicks smile She call me a local nigga, I a Swiss account Eisenhower status Etta on the dash John Coltrane cruising in the Seville, feel my on the real We the Last Poets so this is a premiere Rolling Mick Jagger, the women just getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Eric And all I wanted was one 16 ain't Talking that fast money 15 every When your labelled poor, that motivated me more Everything I ever wore was worn before Roll with the punches now it's box numbers like Sammy Davis, steamin' my marijuana Double MGs, double M We in hood, nigga, government cheese and Yacht Masters, Old Dirty Bastard Floor seat for the Heat paper I'm stackin' put away a penny for the rainy days Pick and roll, and go, fuck a fade away Livin' like Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for off with a scribble, now I'm flowing a river She say my cold I'm naming my son December Whitney night before 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 up to turkey bacon 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 they only 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 enough, but I only get 16, that's like a cage you know 16 ain't enough, I really can't say what I wanna say, you know it's just a glimpse That's all, one uh, one little single glimpse Just a But I guess I'm defeating the purpose of all this talking
'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 fuck my neighbor, I'm hook my waves up I'm tryna pull my up, to get them saddle lace ups Before Le marc was Jacob, them girls wore makeup Before my voice would break up, before we'd them shake clubs my mama wake up, before my palms would cake up Before told me they love me and we'll never breakup Before the she makes love, to someone that I thought was, my homeboy But boy was, I now I budge, don't want much, just 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, tutors did a lousy job he god if he let's Lucifer let loose on us That noose on us won't 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 good when the hood pseudo-celebrate why every time we dine 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 name 'em, hint hint, it um Welch's Hell just three thousand more degrees cooler Y'all can't my worth But when you try, you'll need a made by all the Greek gods Because the odds have always stacked 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 the palm of a child, looks up at mama and smiles With such a devilish grin, "where the hell have you been" She yelling that selling's a sin, so is telling young men selling is a sin, if you don't offer new ways to win A dolphin shake his fin, regardless if he is in Or out of water, most important thing for him is to And flipper hold his nose, so why shall I hold my tongue? I miss the days that O' and Market Hole had scowl on his 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 till they see out our window I take the fall to make them all treat human more gentle Forsake them all, I hate them all, don't like em don't to Yea something me, we ain't in Kansas anymore All that that used 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 ain't yours
16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh yeah, oh yeah
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh (When 16 ain't enough) yeah, oh (When 16 ain't enough)
(Break down, break down) Does your mama know you see me, does she know you're Does she ever if it's '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 think you perfect, does he know for Does he know how you act you pull back all them curtains? Do he I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm black and put them works in? Does he know his daughter might have caught a real merman
It's funny because, cause you're a But because we love you, we go that extra mile, it down for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)