Sixteen (feat. Andre 3000)

[Hook: Andre 3000]

When 16 ain't enough..

[Intro: Rick Ross]

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

[Verse 1: Rick Ross]

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

[Hook]

[Interlude: Andre 3k]

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

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

[Verse 2: Andre 3K]

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 palms 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

[Hook]

[Breakdown: Andre 3000]

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?