When 16 enough
It's funny niggas, been on my mind lately 16 ain't enough, having a dope beat, dope idea 16 bars enough! How the fuck can I squeeze my whole life a 16 bar verse? You know, so many different levels, when 16 enough, to living your life Depicting with your wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, what life means to you 16 enough
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 smile She call me a local nigga, I opened a Swiss Eisenhower status Etta James on the John Coltrane cruising in the Seville, my life on the real We the Last Poets so is a world premiere Rolling Mick Jagger, the women just getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Eric And all I wanted was one 16 enough that fast money 15 every month When your people labelled poor, that motivated me I ever wore was once worn before Roll with the punches now it's box numbers Dressed like Sammy Davis, my marijuana Double MGs, double M We in every hood, nigga, government Yachts and Yacht Masters, Old Dirty Floor seat for the Heat paper that I'm Better put away a penny for the rainy Pick and roll, and go, fuck a fade away Livin' like Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles Started off with a scribble, now I'm a river She say my heart cold I'm my son December Whitney died night before the Grammys, damn, what a Trump and I started with a 10 speed broke had to use a nigga's instincts Now I get a hundred for the 16 Waking up to bacon and my thick queen hating, I'm just watchin' on the big screen 3 stacks on the beat and the mean
When 16 ain't enough, you know how you got so much to say but When 16 ain't enough, they on they 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 back to 'em you When 16 ain't enough, but I only get 16, that's like a cage you When 16 ain't enough, I 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 doing all this
'88, or was it '89 Or was it winter-time, ah, I'm in my room, boomin' drawin' LL Cool J album With 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 them shake Before my mama wake up, before my palms cake up Before they me they love me and we'll never breakup Before the time she love, to someone 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 tor-ches that scor-ches the skin, they enter Intru-ders, tutors did a lousy job he god if he let's Lucifer 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 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 belly go grab the finest wine and drink it like We know which and which region it came from As if we can name 'em, hint hint, it um Welch's Hell just fell three more degrees cooler Y'all can't measure my But when you try, you'll need a made by all the Greek gods Because the odds have been stacked against me when back's against the wall I feel right at home, y'all sitting at home All Kelly green with envy while I'm beans descending Into the of a child, looks up at mama and smiles With such a devilish grin, Like "where the 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 shake his fin, regardless if he is in Or out of water, most important for him is to swim And flipper didn't 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, camera's snap snap snap snap fire, pa-pa-pa, pa, pa-pa, pa, pa, pa They'll learn why, near privacy, so won't make no laws, I break their laws till they see out our window I take the fall to make them all human kind 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 shit that used to be cool cool anymore All the women you been pursuing, now they more 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 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, she know you're freaky? Does she ever wonder if it's 'bout ya I am Do you ever 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 your daddy think you perfect, does he know for Does he know how you act when you back all them curtains? Do he think I'm 2Pac I'm black and put them works in? Does he his daughter might have caught a real merman yeah?
It's because, cause you're a changer But because we love you, we go extra mile, break it down for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)