When 16 ain't
funny niggas, it's been on my mind lately When 16 ain't enough, having a dope beat, idea 16 ain't 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 y'all feel me on this one You feel me on this one
Huh, it's funny how change, funny how time fly More than my feet travel, the that I feel fly More that I make now, the more that the smile She call me a local nigga, I opened a account Eisenhower status Etta on the dash John Coltrane in the Cadillac Seville, feel my on the real We the Last Poets so this is a premiere Rolling like Mick Jagger, the women getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Eric And all I was one 16 ain't enough Talking that fast 15 every month When people labelled poor, that motivated me more Everything I ever wore was once worn with the punches now it's box office numbers Dressed Sammy Davis, steamin' my marijuana Double MGs, double M We in every hood, nigga, cheese Yachts and Yacht Masters, Old Dirty Floor for the Heat paper that I'm stackin' Better put away a penny for the days and roll, give and go, fuck a fade away Livin' like Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for Started off a scribble, now I'm flowing a river She say my cold I'm naming 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 turkey bacon and my thick Niggas hating, I'm just on the big screen 3 on the beat and the kicks mean
16 ain't enough, you know how sometimes you got so much to say but When 16 enough, they on they only give you 16, heh Man it's I mean I got so much to say ya know The world has said so to me, I just wanna give right back to 'em you know When 16 enough, but I only get 16, that's like a cage you know When 16 ain't enough, I really can't say what I wanna say, you 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 J album covers With crayolas on paper 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, before girls wore makeup Before my voice would break up, before we'd tour shake clubs Before my wake up, before my palms would cake up Before they told me they love me and we'll never 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 horse and But of course an assort-ment of tor-ches that scor-ches the skin, when they Intru-ders, whose tutors did a job How's he god if he let's Lucifer let 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 let us win, I can't pretend But I admit it, it feel good when the pseudo-celebrate Hence why every time we dine we eat our belly aches go grab the finest wine and drink it like 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 measure my worth But you try, you'll need a ruler made by all the Greek gods Because the odds have always been stacked 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 jelly descending Into the of a child, looks up at mama and smiles With such a 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 hold his nose, so why shall I hold my tongue? 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 laws till they see out our window I take the 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 tells me, we ain't in 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, settle for what 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 enough) yeah, oh yeah (When 16 ain't enough)
(Break down, break down) Does your know you see me, does she know you're freaky? Does she ever wonder if it's 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) your daddy think you perfect, does he know for certain? Does he know how you act you pull back all them curtains? 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 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)