Sixteen (feat. André 3000)

J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League

This is special

Extremely special

When sixteen ain't enough

It's funny because, it's been on my mind lately

When sixteen ain't enough

Havin' a dope beat, a dope idea

Sixteen bars ain't enough

How the fuck

Can I squeeze my whole life into a sixteen bar verse?

You know, so many different levels

When sixteen ain't enough

To livin' your life

Depictin' with your wordplay

When sixteen ain't enough

Exactly what life means to you

Sixteen ain't enough

I know ya'll gon' feel me on this one

Gotta feel me on this one

It's funny how things change, it's funny how time fly

More that my feet travel, the more that I feel fly

More that I make now, the more that the chicks smile

She call me a local ****, I opened a Swiss account

Eisenhower status, Etta James on the dash

Smooth as John Coltrane, cruisin' in the Cadillac

Seville, feel my life on the real

We The Last Poets, so this is a real premier

Rollin' like Mick Jagger, the women just gettin' badder

All I see is the money, cream, Eric Clapton

And all I wanted was one sixteen ain't enough

Talkin' that fast money, fifteen every month

When your people labelled poor, that motivated me more

Everything I ever wore was once worn before

Roll with the punches, now it's box office numbers

Dress like Sammy Davis, steamin' my marijuana

Double MGs, double M fees

We in every hood, ****, government cheese

Yachts and yacht masters, old dirty bastard

Floor seat for the heat, paper that I'm stackin'

Better put away your penny for the rainy days

Pick and roll, give and go, fuck a fade away

Livin' like Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles

Started off with a scribble, now I'm flowin' a river

She say my heart cold, I'm namin' my son December

Whitney died night before the Grammys, damn, what a memory

Trump Tower when I started with a ten speed

Born broke had to use a **** instincts

Now I get a hunnid racks for the sixteen

Wakin' up to turkey bacon and my thick queen

**** hatin', I'm just watchin' on the big screen

Three stacks on the beat and the kicks mean

When sixteen ain't enough

You know how sometimes you got so much to say but

When sixteen ain't enough

They only, they only give you sixteen, heh

Man it's like, yeah, I mean I got so much to say ya know

Oh, yeah

This world has said like so much to me

I just wanna give it right back to 'em, ya know

When sixteen ain't enough

But I only get sixteen that's like a cage, ya know

When sixteen ain't enough

I-I really can't say what I wanna say

Ya know, it's just a glimpse, that's all, just one, uh

One lil single glimpse

Just a page

Then I guess I'm defeatin' the purpose

Of doin' all this talkin', aight

Summer '88, or was it '89?

Or was it winter-time

Ah, never mind

I'm in my room boomin'

Drawin' LL Cool J album covers with Crayolas on construction paper

I'm tryna fuck my neighbor, I'm tryna hook my waves up

I'm tryna pull my grades up, to get them saddle lace ups

Before lil' Marc, was Jacob, before them girls wore makeup

Before my voice would break up, before we'd tour them shake clubs

Before my mama wake up, before my crumbs would cake up

Before they tell me they love me, and we'll never break up

Before the time she makes love, to someone that I thought was

My homeboy, but boy was I wrong now

I don't budge, don't want much, just a roof and a porch

And a Porsche, and a horse, and an unfortunately, but of course

An assortment of torches that scorches the skin

When they enter, intruders whose tutors

Did a lousy job, how's he God

If he let's Lucifer let lose on us? That noose on us

Won't loosen up, but lose enough to juice us up

Make us think we do so much and do it big

Like they won't let us win, I can't pretend

But I do admit it feel good when the hood pseudo-celebrate

Hence why every time we dine, we eat until our belly ache

Then go grab the finest wine

And drink it like we know which grape

And which region it came from, as if we can name 'em

Hint, hint, it ain't um, Welches

Hell just fell three thousand more degrees cooler

Y'all can measure my worth

But when you try you'll need a ruler

Made by all the Greek gods, because the odds

Have always been stacked against me, when backs against the wall

I feel right at home y'all, sittin' right at home

All Kelly Green with envy, while I'm jelly beans descending

Into the palm of a child, who looks up at mama and smile

With such a devilish grin, like "where the hell have you been?"

She's yelling "selling's a sin," well so is telling young men

That selling is a sin if you don't offer new ways to win

A dolphin don't shake his fin, regardless if gets in or outta the water

Most important thing for him is to swim

And Flipper didn't hold his nose, so why shall I hold my tongue?

I miss the days of old when one could hold his gal on his arm

And I set off these alarms, when camera snap-snap-snaps

Return fire, pap-pap-pap-pap-pap-pap-pap-pap

They'll learn why, mere privacy's so essential

They won't make no laws, I break they law

Till they see out our window

I take the fall, to make them all, treat human kind more gentle

Forsake 'em all, I hate them all, don't like 'em don't pretend too

Yeah, somethin' tells me we ain't in Kansas anymore

All the shit that used to be cool, ain't cool anymore

All the women who were pursuin', now they want more

And they deserve it all, don't settle for what ain't yours

When sixteen ain't enough

When sixteen ain't enough

Lord

Oh, Lord

When sixteen ain't enough

When sixteen ain't enough

When sixteen ain't enough

When sixteen ain't enough

Break down, break down

Does your momma know you see me?

Does she know you're freaky?

Does she ever wonder if it's 'bout ya I am speaking?

Do you ever wonder where I'm at when you get sleepy?

How the hell I'm goin' to tell the youth don't be me? Yeah

I love it

Does your daddy think you perfect?

Does he know for certain?

Does he know how you act when you pull back all them curtains?

Do he think I'm 2Pac 'cause I'm black and put the works in?

Does he know his daughter mighta caught a real mermen? Yeah

It's funny because, because you're a changer

But because we love ya, we go that extra mile

Break it down for 'em Andre

Next level

Amazing