When 16 enough
It's funny niggas, it's been on my mind When 16 ain't enough, having a dope beat, idea 16 ain't enough! How the fuck can I squeeze my whole life a 16 bar verse? You know, so different levels, when 16 ain't enough, to living your life with your wordplay, when 16 ain't enough, exactly what life means to you 16 enough
I know y'all gonna feel me on 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 more that the smile She call me a nigga, I opened a Swiss account status Etta James on the dash John Coltrane in the Cadillac Seville, feel my life on the We the Last Poets so this is a premiere Rolling like Jagger, the women just getting badder All I see is the money, cream, Clapton And all I wanted was one 16 enough Talking that fast money 15 month When your labelled poor, that motivated me more I ever wore was once worn before Roll with the punches now box office numbers Dressed like Davis, steamin' my marijuana Double MGs, M fees We in every hood, nigga, cheese and Yacht Masters, Old Dirty Bastard Floor seat for the Heat paper that I'm Better put away a penny for the days Pick and roll, give and go, a fade away Livin' like Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for off with a scribble, now I'm flowing a river She say my heart cold I'm my son December died night before the Grammys, damn, what a memory Trump Tower and I started with a 10 Born had to use a nigga's instincts Now I get a racks 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 how sometimes you got so much to say but When 16 ain't enough, they on they 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 give right back to 'em you know When 16 ain't enough, but I only get 16, like a cage you know When 16 ain't enough, I really say what I wanna say, you know it's just a glimpse That's all, just one uh, one little 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' drawin' LL J album covers With crayolas on paper I'm to fuck my neighbor, I'm tryna hook my waves up I'm tryna my grades up, to get them saddle lace ups Before Le marc was Jacob, before girls wore makeup Before my would break up, before we'd tour them shake clubs Before my mama up, before my palms would cake up Before they told me they love me and 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 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 noose on us won't loosen up but loose enough to juice us up Make us think we do so and do it big Like they let us win, I can't 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 grab the finest wine and drink it We know which grape and region it came from As if we can name 'em, hint, it ain't um Welch's Hell just fell three more degrees cooler Y'all measure my worth But when you try, you'll need a ruler made by all the Greek Because the have always been stacked against me when back's against the wall I feel right at home, y'all sitting at home All Kelly green with envy while I'm beans descending Into the palm of a child, looks up at mama and With such a grin, Like "where the hell have you been" She yelling that selling's a sin, well so is telling men That selling is a sin, if you don't 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 Hole had 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 laws till they see out our window I take the fall to make them all treat human more gentle them all, I hate them all, don't like em don't pretend to Yea something tells me, we ain't in Kansas All that shit that 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 what ain't
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 ain't enough, ooh yeah, oh
When 16 ain't enough, when 16 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 ponder where I'm at you get sleepy? How the I'm gonna tell the youth don't be me? Yea, ha ha
(I love it) Does your think you perfect, does he know for certain? Does he know how you act you pull back all them curtains? Do he think I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm black and put works in? Does he know his daughter might have a real merman yeah?
It's funny because, cause a changer But because we love you, we go that extra mile, it down for 'em Andre huh, (Next level) (Amazing)