When 16 ain't
It's funny niggas, it's been on my lately 16 ain't enough, having a dope beat, dope idea 16 ain't enough! How the fuck can I squeeze my whole 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 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 feet travel, the more I feel fly More that I now, the more that the chicks smile She call me a local nigga, I opened a account Eisenhower Etta James on the dash John Coltrane in the Cadillac Seville, feel my life on the We the Last Poets so is a world premiere Rolling like Mick Jagger, the women just getting All I see is the money, cream, Clapton And all I wanted was one 16 enough Talking fast money 15 every month your people labelled poor, that motivated me more Everything I wore was once worn before Roll with the punches now box office numbers Dressed like Sammy Davis, steamin' my MGs, double M fees We in every hood, nigga, cheese Yachts and Masters, Old Dirty Bastard Floor for the Heat paper that I'm stackin' Better put a penny for the rainy days Pick and roll, give and go, fuck a away like Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles Started off with a scribble, now I'm flowing a She say my heart cold I'm my son December died night before the Grammys, damn, what a memory 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 hating, I'm just watchin' on the big screen 3 stacks on the beat and the kicks
When 16 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 like I mean I got so to say ya know The world has said so much to me, I just wanna give back to 'em you know 16 ain't enough, but I only get 16, that's like a cage you know When 16 ain't enough, I really can't say I wanna say, you know it's just a glimpse That's all, just one uh, one little 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, drawin' LL Cool 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 girls wore makeup Before my voice would break up, before we'd them shake clubs Before my mama wake up, before my palms would up Before told me they love me and we'll never breakup Before the time she makes love, to someone that I thought was, my But boy was, I now I budge, don't want much, just 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, they enter Intru-ders, tutors did a lousy job How's he god if he Lucifer let loose on us That noose on us loosen up but loose enough to juice us up Make us think we do so and do it big they don't let us win, I can't pretend But I admit it, it feel when the hood pseudo-celebrate why every time we dine we eat until our belly aches Then go grab the finest wine and it like We know grape and which region it came from As if we can 'em, hint hint, it ain't um Welch's Hell just fell three thousand more cooler can't measure my worth But when you try, you'll need a ruler made by all the gods Because the odds have been stacked against me when back's against the wall I feel right at home, sitting right at home All Kelly with envy while I'm jelly 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 that selling's a sin, well so is telling young men That selling is a sin, if you don't offer new to win A gone 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 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 learn why, near privacy, so They won't no laws, I break their laws 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 tells me, we ain't in anymore All that shit that used to be ain't cool 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 enough, when 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 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 when you get How the hell I'm gonna the youth don't be me? Yea, ha ha
(I love it) Does 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 'cause I'm black and put them works in? Does he know his might have caught a real merman yeah?
It's funny because, cause you're a But because we love you, we go that extra mile, break it for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)