When 16 enough
funny niggas, it's been on my mind lately When 16 ain't enough, a dope beat, dope idea 16 bars 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 your life Depicting with your wordplay, 16 ain't enough, exactly what life means to you 16 enough
I know y'all gonna me on this one You gotta feel me on one
Huh, it's funny how things change, how time fly More than my feet travel, the more I feel fly More that I make now, the more the chicks smile She call me a local nigga, I a Swiss account status Etta James on the dash John Coltrane cruising in the Seville, my life on the real We the Last Poets so this is a world Rolling Mick Jagger, the women just getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Clapton And all I wanted was one 16 ain't Talking that money 15 every month When your people labelled poor, that motivated me Everything I ever wore was once worn Roll with the punches now box office numbers Dressed like Sammy Davis, my marijuana Double MGs, double M We in every hood, nigga, cheese 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, give and go, a fade away Livin' Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles Started off with a scribble, now I'm flowing a She say my cold I'm naming my son December Whitney died 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 Waking up to turkey and my thick queen Niggas hating, I'm just on the big screen 3 stacks on the and the kicks mean
When 16 ain't enough, you how sometimes you got so much to say but When 16 ain't enough, they on only give you 16, heh Man it's I mean I got so much to say ya know The world has said so much to me, I just wanna right back to 'em you know When 16 ain't enough, but I only get 16, like a cage you know When 16 enough, I really can't say what 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 talking
'88, or was it '89 Or was it winter-time, ah, I'm in my room, drawin' LL Cool J album covers With crayolas on construction 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 wore my voice would break up, before we'd tour them shake clubs Before my mama wake up, before my palms would 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, just a roof and And a Porsche, and a horse and But of course an of tor-ches that scor-ches the skin, when they enter Intru-ders, whose 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 we do so much and do it big Like don't let us win, I can't pretend But I admit it, it feel good when the hood Hence why every time we dine we eat until our belly Then go the finest wine and drink it like We know which grape and region it came from As if we can 'em, hint hint, it ain't um Welch's Hell fell three thousand more degrees cooler can't measure my worth But when you try, need a ruler made by all the Greek gods Because the odds have always been stacked against me when back's against the I feel right at home, y'all sitting at home All Kelly green envy while I'm jelly beans 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 that selling's a sin, well so is young men selling 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, important thing for him is to swim And flipper didn't hold his nose, so why shall I 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 laws till they see out our I take the fall to make them all human kind more gentle Forsake them all, I 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 ain't cool All the women you been pursuing, now want more And deserve it all, don't settle for what ain't yours
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh yeah, oh
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh (When 16 enough) yeah, oh yeah (When 16 ain't enough)
(Break down, down) Does your mama 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 when you get How the hell I'm tell the youth don't be me? Yea, ha ha
(I love it) Does daddy think you perfect, does he know for certain? he know how you act when you pull back all them curtains? Do he think I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm black and put them 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 that extra mile, it down for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)