Sixteen - Album Version (Explicit)

Song Sixteen - Album Version (Explicit)
Artist Rick Ross
Artist André 3000
Album God Forgives, I Don't

Lyrics

[00:50.30] It's funny because it's been on my mind lately
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[00:55.50] Having a dope beat dope idea
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[00:58.33] Sixteen bars ain't enough
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[01:01.59] How the f**k can I squeeze my whole life into a 16 bar verse
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[01:07.84] You know so many different levels to living your life
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[01:13.98] Depicting with your wordplay exactly what life means to you
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[01:20.67] Sixteen ain't enough
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[01:24.81] I know y'all gonna feel me on this one
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[01:28.22] You gotta feel me on this one
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[01:32.92] It's funny how things change funny how time fly
[01:35.44] More than my feet travel the more that I feel fly
[01:38.17] More that I make now the more that the chicks smile
[01:41.01] She call me a local nigga I opened a Swiss account
[01:43.89] Eisenhower status Etta James on the dash
[01:46.59] Smooth as John Coltrane cruising in the Cadillac
[01:48.81] Seville - feel my life on the real
[01:52.08] We the Last Poets so this is a world premiere
[01:54.74] Rolling like Mick Jagger the women just getting badder
[01:57.33] All I see is the money cream Eric Clapton
[02:00.23] And all I wanted was one 16 ain't enough
[02:02.78] Talking that fast money 15 every month
[02:05.55] When your people labelled poor that motivated me more
[02:08.07] Everything I ever wore was once worn before
[02:11.04] Roll with the punches now it's box office numbers
[02:14.08] Dressed like Sammy Davis steaming my marijuana
[02:16.32] Double MG's double M fees
[02:19.44] We in every hood nigga: government cheese
[02:21.72] Yacht to Yachtmasters Old Dirty Bastard
[02:24.98] Floor seat for the Heat paper that I'm stackin
[02:27.96] Better put away a penny for the rainy days
[02:30.77] Pick and roll give and go f**k a fade away
[02:33.54] Living like Scottie Pippen dribble riddles for vittles
[02:35.87] Started off with a scribble now I'm flowing a river
[02:38.56] She say my heart cold I'm naming my son December
[02:41.09] Whitney died night before the Grammys -- damn what a memory
[02:44.32] Trump Tower and I started with a 10 speed
[02:47.46] Born broke had to use a nigga's instincts
[02:50.01] Now I get a hundred racks for the 16
[02:52.78] Waking up to turkey bacon and my thick queen
[02:55.43] Niggas hating I'm just watching on the big screen
[02:58.61] 3 stacks on the beat and the kicks mean
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[03:05.06] You know how sometimes you got so much to say but
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[03:09.25] They on- they only give you 16 heh
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[03:14.28] Man it's like I mean I got so much to say
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[03:18.75] The world has said so much to me
[03:20.77] And I just wanna give right back to 'em
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[03:25.16] But I only get 16 that's like a cage you know
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[03:31.02] I really can't say what I wanna say you know it's just a glimpse
[03:34.49] That's all just one uh one little single glimpse
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[03:38.24] Just a page
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[03:41.28] But I guess I'm defeating the purpose of doing all this talking
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[03:48.41] Or was it winter-time ah nevermind
[03:51.12] I'm in my room booming
[03:52.87] Drawin' LL Cool J album covers with Crayolas on construction paper
[03:56.45] I'm trying to f**k my neighbor I'm tryna hook my waves up
[03:59.30] I'm tryna pull my grades up to get them saddle lace ups
[04:01.89] Before lil' Marc was Jacob before them girls wore makeup
[04:04.02] Before my voice would break up before we'd tour them shake clubs
[04:07.47] Before my mama wake up before my palms would cake up
[04:10.21] Before they tell me they love me and we'll never break up
[04:12.98] Before the time she makes love to someone
[04:14.94] That I thought was my homeboy
[04:16.59] But boy was I wrong now
[04:17.89] I don't budge don't want much just a roof and a porch
[04:20.72] And a Porsche and a horse and unfortunately
[04:22.45] But of course an assortment of torches that scorches the skin
[04:26.15] When they enter
[04:27.46] Intruders whose tutors did a lousy job
[04:30.06] How's he God if he lets Lucifer let loose on us
[04:32.35] That noose on us won't loosen up but loose enough to juice us up
[04:35.43] Make us think we do so much and do it big
[04:37.86] Like they don't let us win I can't pretend
[04:39.48] But I do admit it feel good when the hood pseudo-celebrate
[04:41.99] Hence why every time we dine we eat until our belly aches
[04:44.91] Then go grab the finest wine and drink it
[04:46.93] Like we know which grape and which region it came from
[04:49.28] As if we can name 'em hint hint it ain't um Welch's
[04:51.98] Hell just fell three thousand more degrees cooler
[04:54.67] Ya'll can't measure my worth
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[04:58.61] Because the odds have always been stacked
[05:00.95] Against me when back's against the wall
[05:02.76] I feel right at home y'all sitting right at home
[05:05.31] All Kelly green with envy while I'm jelly beans descending
[05:07.40] Into the palm of a child looks up at mama and smile
[05:10.99] With such a devilish grin like "where the hell have you been"
[05:13.67] She yelling that selling's a sin well so is telling young men
[05:16.45] That selling is a sin if you don't offer new ways to win
[05:19.08] A dolphin gon shake his fin regardless if he gets in
[05:21.80] Or out of water most important thing for him is to swim
[05:24.62] And Flipper didn't hold his nose so why shall I hold my tongue
[05:27.65] (I miss the days of old when one could hold his gal on his arm)
[05:30.60] And I set off these alarms when camera's snap snap snap snap
[05:33.00] Return fire pa-pa-pa pa pa-pa pa pa pa
[05:36.06] They'll learn why mere privacy so essential
[05:37.51] They won't make no laws I break their laws til they see out our window
[05:40.95] I take the fall to make them all treat human kind more gentle
[05:43.40] Forsake them all I hate them all don't like em don't pretend to
[05:46.39] Yea something tells me we ain't in Kansas anymore
[05:48.30] All that shit that used to be cool ain't cool anymore
[05:52.01] All the women we were pursuing now they want more
[05:54.56] And they deserve it all don't settle for what ain't yours
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[06:41.64] Does your mama know you see me does she know you're freaky
[06:44.29] Does she ever wonder if it's 'bout ya I am speaking
[06:46.98] Do you ever ponder where I'm at when you get sleepy
[06:49.90] How the hell I'm gonna tell the youth don't be me
[06:52.86] Yea
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[07:03.84] Does your daddy think you perfect does he know for certain
[07:06.61] Does he know how you act when you pull back all them curtains
[07:09.28] Do he think I'm 2Pac cause I'm black and put the words in
[07:12.17] Does he know his daughter might have caught a real merman