When 16 ain't
It's funny niggas, been on my mind lately When 16 ain't enough, having a dope beat, idea 16 bars 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 your wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly life means to you 16 enough
I know gonna feel me on this one You gotta feel me on one
Huh, it's funny how things change, funny how fly More my feet travel, the more that I feel fly More I make now, the more that the chicks smile She me a local nigga, I opened a Swiss account status Etta James on the dash John cruising in the Cadillac Seville, feel my on the real We the Last Poets so this is a world 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 labelled poor, that motivated me more I ever wore was once worn before Roll with the punches now it's box office Dressed like Sammy Davis, steamin' my Double MGs, M fees We in every hood, nigga, government Yachts and Masters, Old Dirty Bastard 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 fade Livin' like Scottie Pippen, dribble for vittles Started off 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, 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 queen hating, I'm just watchin' 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 they only you 16, heh Man like I mean I got so much to say ya know The world has said so much to me, I just wanna give right 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 what I wanna say, you know it's just a 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' LL Cool J album covers crayolas on construction paper I'm trying to fuck my neighbor, I'm tryna my waves up I'm tryna pull my grades up, to get them saddle ups Le marc was Jacob, before them girls wore makeup Before my voice would break up, before we'd tour them clubs Before my mama wake up, before my palms would up Before they told me love me and we'll never breakup Before the time she makes love, to 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 enter Intru-ders, whose did a lousy job How's he god if he let's let loose 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 don't let us win, I pretend But I admit it, it feel good the hood pseudo-celebrate Hence why every we dine we eat until our belly aches Then go the finest wine and drink it like We know which grape and which it came from As if we can name 'em, hint hint, it um Welch's Hell just fell three thousand 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 against me back's against the wall I feel right at home, y'all sitting at home All Kelly green envy while I'm jelly beans descending the palm of a child, looks up at mama and smiles With such a devilish grin, Like "where the hell you been" She yelling that selling's a sin, well so is telling men That selling is a sin, if you offer new ways to win A dolphin gone his fin, regardless if he is in Or out of water, most important for him is to swim And flipper didn't his nose, so why shall I hold my tongue? I miss the 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 why, near privacy, so essential They won't make no laws, I break their laws till see out our window I take the to make them all treat human kind more gentle Forsake them all, I hate all, don't like em don't pretend to Yea something tells me, we ain't in Kansas All that that used to be cool ain't cool anymore All the women you been pursuing, now they want And they deserve it all, don't settle for what ain't
When 16 ain't enough, 16 ain't enough, ooh yeah, oh yeah
16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh (When 16 ain't 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 if it's 'bout ya I am speaking? Do you ever where I'm at when you get sleepy? How the hell I'm gonna tell the youth be me? Yea, ha ha
(I love it) Does your daddy you perfect, does he know for certain? Does he know how you act when you pull back all curtains? Do he think I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm black and put works in? Does he his daughter 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)