When 16 enough
It's funny niggas, it's been on my lately When 16 ain't enough, a dope beat, dope idea 16 ain't enough! How the fuck can I my whole life into a 16 bar verse? You know, so different levels, when 16 ain't enough, to living your life Depicting with your wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly life means to you 16 ain't
I y'all gonna feel me on this one You gotta me on this one
Huh, funny how things change, funny how time fly More than my feet travel, the more that I fly More that I make now, the more that the chicks She me a local nigga, I opened a Swiss account Eisenhower status James on the dash John Coltrane cruising in the Seville, feel my on the real We the Last Poets so is a world premiere Rolling like Mick Jagger, the just getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Clapton And all I was one 16 ain't enough Talking that fast money 15 every When your people labelled poor, motivated me more Everything I ever wore was worn before Roll with the now it's box office numbers Dressed Sammy Davis, steamin' my marijuana Double MGs, M fees We in every hood, nigga, government Yachts and Yacht Masters, Old Dirty Floor seat for the Heat that I'm stackin' Better put away a penny for the days Pick and roll, give and go, a fade away Livin' like Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles Started off with a scribble, now I'm a river She say my heart I'm naming my son December Whitney died before the Grammys, damn, what a memory Trump Tower and I started a 10 speed Born broke had to use a nigga's Now I get a racks for the 16 up to turkey bacon and my thick queen Niggas hating, I'm watchin' on the big screen 3 stacks on the and the kicks mean
When 16 ain't enough, you know how 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 much to say ya The world has said so to me, I just wanna give right 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 single glimpse a page But I I'm defeating the purpose 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 construction 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 Before Le marc was Jacob, before girls wore makeup Before my voice would break up, 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 Before the time she makes love, to someone that I was, my homeboy 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 that scor-ches the skin, when they enter Intru-ders, whose tutors did a job How's he god if he let's Lucifer let on us That noose on us 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 good when the hood pseudo-celebrate Hence why every time we dine we eat until our aches go grab the finest wine and drink 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 thousand more degrees cooler Y'all can't measure my But when you try, you'll a ruler made by all the Greek gods Because the odds have been stacked against me when back's against the wall I right at home, y'all sitting right at home All Kelly green with envy I'm jelly beans descending Into the palm of a child, looks up at and smiles such a devilish grin, Like "where the hell have you been" She that selling's a sin, well so is telling young men That selling is a sin, if you offer new ways to win A dolphin 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 shall I my tongue? I miss the days that O' and Market 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 learn why, near privacy, so They won't make no laws, I break their laws till see out our window I take the fall to make them all treat human kind gentle Forsake them all, I hate them all, like em don't pretend to Yea something tells me, we in Kansas anymore All that shit used to be cool ain't cool anymore All the you been pursuing, now they want more And deserve it all, don't settle for what ain't yours
16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh yeah, oh yeah
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh (When 16 ain't enough) yeah, oh (When 16 ain't enough)
(Break down, break down) your mama know you see me, does she know you're freaky? Does she ever wonder if it's 'bout ya I am Do you ever ponder where I'm at when you get How the hell I'm gonna tell the don't be me? Yea, ha ha
(I love it) Does your daddy think you perfect, he know for certain? Does he know how you act when you back all them curtains? Do he think I'm 'cause I'm black and put them works in? Does he know his daughter might have caught a real yeah?
It's because, cause you're a changer But because we love you, we go that extra mile, break it for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)