Sixteen Ft Andre 3000-Rick Ross

[ti:Sixteen Ft Andre 3000] [ar:Rick Ross] [al:God Forgives, I Don't (Deluxe Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sixteen Ft Andre 3000 - Rick Ross [00:50.30]It's funny because it's been on my mind lately [00:53.24] [00:55.50]Having a d**e beat d**e idea [00:57.55] [00:58.33]Sixteen bars ain't enough [00:59.53] [01:01.59]How the f**k can I squeeze my whole life into a 16 bar verse [01:05.66] [01:07.84]You know so many different levels to living your life [01:12.94] [01:13.98]Depicting with your wordplay exactly what life means to you [01:19.36] [01:20.67]Sixteen ain't enough [01:22.33] [01:24.81]I know y'all gonna feel me on this one [01:27.07] [01:28.22]You gotta feel me on this one [01:30.69] [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 ni**a 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 ni**a: 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 ni**a'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 [03:01.20] [03:05.06]You know how sometimes you got so much to say but [03:07.06] [03:09.25]They on- they only give you 16 heh [03:11.44] [03:14.28]Man it's like I mean I got so much to say [03:17.32] [03:18.75]The world has said so much to me [03:20.77]And I just wanna give right back to 'em [03:22.53] [03:25.16]But I only get 16 that's like a cage you know [03:29.73] [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 [03:36.42] [03:38.24]Just a page [03:39.15] [03:41.28]But I guess I'm defeating the purpose of doing all this talking [03:44.99] [03:45.74]Summer '88 or was it '89 [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 [04:55.84]But when you try you'll need a ruler made by all the Greek gods [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 sh*t 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 [05:57.90] [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 [06:53.11] [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