Sixteen Lyrics - Andre 3000

When 16 ain't enough... 

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

Having a dope beat, dope idea.. 

Sixteen bars ain't enough! 

How the fuck can I squeeze my whole life into a 16 bar verse? 

You know, so many different levels to living your life 

Depicting with your wordplay exactly what life means to you 

Sixteen ain't enough 

I know y'all gonna feel me on this one 

You gotta feel me on this one 

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

More than 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 nigga, I opened a Swiss account 

Eisenhower status, Etta James on the dash 

Smooth as John Coltrane cruising in the Cadillac 

Seville - feel my life on the real 

We the Last Poets so this is a world premiere 

Rolling like Mick Jagger, the women just getting badder 

All I see is the money, cream, Eric Clapton 

And all I wanted was one, 16 ain't enough 

Talking that fast money, 15 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 

Dressed like Sammy Davis, steaming my marijuana 

Double MG's, double M fees 

We in every hood, nigga: government cheese 

Yacht to Yachtmasters, Old Dirty Bastard 

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

Better put away a penny for the rainy days 

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

Living like Scottie Pippen, dribble riddles for vittles 

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

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

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

Trump Tower and I started with a 10 speed 

Born broke, had to use a nigga's instincts 

Now I get a hundred racks for the 16 

Waking up to turkey bacon and my thick queen 

Niggas hating, I'm just watching on the big screen 

3 stacks on the beat and the kicks mean 

When 16 ain't enough... 

You know how sometimes you got so much to say but 

They on- they only give you 16, heh.. 

Man it's like.. I mean, I got so much to say 

The world has said so much to me, and I just wanna give right back to 'em 

But... I only get 16, that's like a cage, you know 

I really can't say what I wanna say, you know it's just a glimpse 

That's all, just one uh, one little single glimpse 

Just a page 

Photos 

But I guess I'm defeating the purpose of doing all this talking 

Summer '88, or was it '89 

Or was it winter-time, ah, nevermind 

I'm in my room, booming 

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

I'm trying to 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 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 lets Lucifer let loose on us? 

That noose on us won't loosen up, but loose enough to juice us up 

Make us think we do so much and do it big 

Like they don'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 aches 

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, Welch's 

Hell just fell three thousand more degrees cooler 

Ya'll can't 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 back's against the wall 

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

All Kelly green with envy while I'm jelly beans descending 

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

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

She yelling that 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 gon shake his fin, regardless if he gets in 

Or out of 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's snap snap snap snap 

Return fire, pa-pa-pa, pa, pa-pa, pa, pa, pa 

They'll learn why, mere privacy, so essential 

They won't make no laws, I break their laws til they see out our window 

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

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

Yea something tells me we ain't in Kansas anymore 

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

All the women we were pursuing, now they want more 

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

When 16 ain't enough... 

When 16 ain't enough... 

When 16 ain't enough... 

When 16 ain't enough... 

When 16 ain't enough... 

Does your mama 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 ponder where I'm at when you get sleepy? 

How the hell I'm gonna tell the youth don't be me? 

Yea 

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 words in? 

Does he know his daughter might have caught a real merman? 

Yea