When 16 ain't
It's funny niggas, it's been on my lately When 16 enough, having a dope beat, dope idea 16 bars enough! How the can I squeeze my whole life into a 16 bar verse? You know, so many different levels, when 16 enough, to living your life with your wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly what life means to you 16 enough
I y'all gonna feel me on this one You feel me on this one
Huh, it's funny how things change, funny how fly More my feet travel, the more that I feel fly More that I now, the more that the chicks smile She call me a local nigga, I opened a account Eisenhower status Etta James on the John cruising in the Cadillac Seville, feel my life on the We the Poets so this 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 When your people poor, that motivated me more Everything I wore was once worn before with the punches now it's box office numbers Dressed like Sammy Davis, my marijuana MGs, double M fees We in every hood, nigga, cheese Yachts and Yacht Masters, Old Bastard Floor for the Heat paper that I'm stackin' put away a penny for the rainy days Pick and roll, give and go, fuck a away Livin' like Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles off with a scribble, now I'm flowing a river She say my heart cold I'm naming my son Whitney died night before the Grammys, damn, what a Trump Tower and I with a 10 speed Born broke had to use a nigga's 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 beat and the kicks
When 16 ain't enough, you know how you got so much to say but When 16 ain't enough, they on 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 When 16 ain't enough, but I get 16, that's like a cage you know When 16 enough, I really can't say what I wanna say, you know it's just a glimpse all, just one uh, one little single glimpse Just a But I guess I'm defeating the 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 crayolas on paper I'm trying to fuck my neighbor, I'm tryna my waves up I'm tryna pull my up, to get them saddle lace ups Before Le marc was Jacob, before girls wore makeup Before my voice would up, before we'd tour them shake clubs Before my mama up, before my palms would cake up Before they told me they me and we'll never breakup the time 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 scor-ches the skin, when they enter Intru-ders, whose tutors did a job How's he god if he Lucifer let loose on us That noose on us won't loosen up but loose 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 go grab the finest wine and drink it like We know which grape and region it came from As if we can name 'em, hint hint, it ain't um Hell fell three thousand more degrees cooler can't measure my worth But when you try, you'll need a ruler by all the Greek gods Because the odds have always been stacked against me when against the wall I feel at home, y'all sitting right at home All Kelly green with envy while I'm jelly beans the palm of a child, looks up at mama and smiles With 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 gone shake his fin, regardless 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 hold my 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, privacy, so essential They won't make no laws, I break their laws they see out our window I the fall to make them all treat human kind more gentle them all, I hate them all, don't like em don't pretend to Yea tells me, we ain't in Kansas anymore All that shit that used to be cool cool anymore All the women you pursuing, now they want more And they deserve it all, settle for what ain't yours
When 16 ain't enough, 16 ain't enough, ooh yeah, oh yeah
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 know you see me, does she know you're Does she ever wonder if it's 'bout ya I am Do you ever where I'm at when you get sleepy? How the I'm gonna tell 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 when you pull back all them Do he I'm 2Pac 'cause 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 you, we go that extra mile, break it down for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)