When 16 ain't
funny niggas, it's been on my mind lately When 16 ain't enough, having a dope beat, dope 16 ain't enough! How the fuck can I squeeze my whole into a 16 bar verse? You know, so many different levels, 16 ain't enough, to living your life Depicting with your wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly what life to you 16 ain't
I y'all gonna feel me on this one You gotta feel me on one
Huh, funny how things change, funny how time fly More than my travel, the more that I feel fly that I make now, the more that the chicks smile She call me a local nigga, I opened a Swiss Eisenhower Etta James on the dash John cruising in the Cadillac Seville, my life on the real We the Last Poets so this is a premiere Rolling like Mick Jagger, the just getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Clapton And all I wanted was one 16 ain't Talking that fast 15 every month When your labelled poor, that motivated me more Everything I ever wore was worn before Roll with the now it's box office 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 I'm stackin' Better put a penny for the rainy days Pick and roll, give and go, fuck a away Livin' like Scottie Pippen, riddles for vittles off with a scribble, now I'm flowing a river She say my cold I'm naming my son December died night before the Grammys, damn, what a memory Trump Tower and I started a 10 speed Born broke had to use a nigga's Now I get a hundred 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 enough, you know how sometimes 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 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, just one uh, one little single a page 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 J album covers With on construction paper I'm trying to fuck my neighbor, I'm hook my waves up I'm tryna pull my grades up, to get them lace ups Before Le marc was Jacob, before them wore makeup Before my voice break up, before we'd tour them shake clubs Before my mama wake up, before my palms cake up Before they told me 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 don't budge, don't want much, just a 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, tutors did a lousy job How's he god if he let's Lucifer let 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 don't let us win, I can't But I admit it, it feel good the hood pseudo-celebrate Hence why every time we dine we eat until our aches Then go grab the finest and drink it like We which grape and which region it came from As if we can name 'em, hint hint, it um Welch's just fell three thousand more degrees cooler Y'all measure 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 sitting at home All Kelly green with envy I'm jelly beans descending Into the palm of a child, looks up at and smiles such a devilish grin, Like "where the hell have you been" She that selling's a sin, well so is telling young men That is a sin, if you don't offer new ways to win A dolphin gone shake his fin, 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 the days that O' and Market Hole had scowl 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 learn why, near privacy, so They won't no laws, I break their laws till they see out our window I the fall to make them all treat human kind more gentle Forsake them all, I hate them all, don't like em 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 pursuing, now they want more And they deserve it all, don't settle for ain't yours
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh yeah, oh
When 16 ain't enough, 16 ain't enough, ooh (When 16 ain't enough) yeah, oh yeah (When 16 ain't enough)
(Break down, break down) Does your mama 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 when you get How the hell I'm gonna the youth don't be me? Yea, ha ha
(I love it) Does your think you perfect, does he know for certain? Does he know how you act when you pull back all them Do he think I'm 'cause I'm black and put them works in? Does he know his daughter might have caught a real merman
funny because, cause you're a changer But because we love you, we go that extra mile, it down for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)