Ain't no daddies where I'm from it's just mad mothersnAnd eyes that still seem they can't look past colornWhy am I disrespected by someone I should call brothernAnd why girls feel unpretty and constantly hate each othernBad air in my lungs, man I can't breathenMy eyes burnin' from all the dirt and the debrinAnd it's third degree, emotionless on the scenenIt's like a disease the way ya'll killin' mennI'm sixteen and I shouldn't have to feel like thisnI'm sixteen every young boy out here want to kiss menI'm sixteen and me and my mama going through itnI'm sixteen on the block, sixteen on the blocknI'm sixteen at war (6)nI'm sixteen on the block, sixteen on the blocknnAround here cool is another word for foolnIf he smoke, then she smoke, I gotta smoke toonNow what would I do if I didn't have a cluenI'm sixteen Why oh, asking God oh why ohnIf my clothes ain't tight, then he ain't gon' like menEyes on the prize so the next girl dress just like menI'm so full of promise but why promisenIf I'ma just be rewarded by bad actionsnTo him I'm just a transactionnnI'm sixteen and I shouldn't have to feel like thisnI'm sixteen every young boy out here want to kissnI'm sixteen and me and my mama going through itnI'm sixteen on the block, sixteen on the blocknI'm sixteen at war (6)nI'm sixteen on the block, sixteen on the blocknnI want you to love my mind, my smile, my stylenI want you to know the best of menI want to belong without being treated like propertynWhy does it seem like fantasy?nnI'm sixteen and I shouldn't have to feel like thisnI'm sixteen every young boy out here want to kissnI'm sixteen and me and my mama going through itnI'm sixteen on the block, sixteen on the blocknI'm sixteen at war (6)nI'm sixteen on the block, sixteen on the blocknn(Im sixteen) ohh ohhh sixteen