When 16 enough
It's funny niggas, it's been on my lately When 16 ain't enough, having a dope beat, idea 16 bars enough! How the fuck can I squeeze my whole life a 16 bar verse? You know, so many different levels, 16 ain't enough, to living your life Depicting with wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly what life means to you 16 enough
I y'all gonna feel me on this one You gotta me on this one
Huh, it's funny how things change, funny how fly More than my feet travel, the more I feel fly More that I make now, the that the chicks smile She call me a local nigga, I opened a 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 enough that fast money 15 every month When your labelled poor, that motivated me more Everything I ever wore was worn before with the punches now it's box office numbers Dressed Sammy Davis, steamin' my marijuana Double MGs, M fees We in every hood, nigga, cheese Yachts and Masters, Old Dirty Bastard Floor seat for the Heat paper that I'm Better put away a for the rainy days Pick and roll, and go, fuck a fade away Livin' like Scottie Pippen, dribble for vittles Started off with a scribble, now I'm a river She say my heart cold I'm naming my son Whitney night before the Grammys, damn, what a memory Trump Tower and I started a 10 speed Born broke had to use a instincts Now I get a hundred for the 16 Waking up to bacon and my thick queen hating, I'm just watchin' on the big screen 3 stacks on the beat and the 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 like I I got so much to say ya know 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 know it's just a That's all, just one uh, one little glimpse a page 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' LL Cool J album covers With crayolas on paper I'm trying to fuck my neighbor, I'm hook my waves up I'm tryna pull my grades up, to get them saddle ups Before Le marc was Jacob, before them girls wore Before my voice would break up, before we'd them shake clubs Before my mama wake up, my palms would cake up Before they told me they 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 don't budge, don't want much, just a and porch And a Porsche, and a and unfor-tunately But of course an assort-ment of tor-ches that scor-ches the skin, when they Intru-ders, whose tutors did a job How's he god if he let's Lucifer let on us That noose on us won't loosen up but loose enough to us up Make us we do so much 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 we eat until our belly aches Then go grab the finest wine and drink it We know which grape and which it came from As if we can name 'em, hint hint, it ain't um Hell fell three thousand more degrees cooler Y'all can't my worth But when you try, 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 with while I'm jelly beans descending Into the palm of a child, up at mama and smiles such a devilish 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 shake his fin, regardless if he is in Or out of water, important thing for him is to swim And didn't hold his nose, so why shall 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, privacy, so essential won't make 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 them all, don't like em don't pretend to Yea something tells me, we ain't in Kansas All shit that used to be cool ain't cool 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 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 she ever wonder if it's 'bout ya I am speaking? Do you ever ponder where I'm at you get sleepy? How the hell I'm gonna tell the youth be me? Yea, ha ha
(I love it) Does your daddy think you perfect, does he for certain? Does he know how you act when you pull all them curtains? Do he think I'm 'cause I'm black and put them 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 extra mile, break it down for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)