[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