hard knock life (ghetto anthem)

check the bassline out

uh-huh

jigga

uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh

yeahh

let it bump though

it's the hard knock life for us

it's the hard knock life

for us!

steada treated

we get tricked

steada kisses

we get kicked

it's the hard knock life!

from standin on the corners boppin

to drivin some of the hottest cars new york has ever seen

for droppin some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard

from the dope spot

with the smoke glock

fleein the murder scene

you know me well

from nightmares of a lonely cell

my only hell

but since when y'all niggaz know me to fail? fuck naw

where all my niggaz with the rubber grips

bust shots

and if you with me mom i rub on your tits

and what-not

i'm from the school of the hard knocks

we must not

let outsiders violate our blocks

and my plot

let's stick up the world and split it fifty/fifty

uh-huh

let's take the dough and stay real jiggy

uh-huh

and sip the cris' and get pissy-pissy

flow infinitely like the memory of my nigga biggie

baby!

you know it's hell when i come through

the life and times of shawn carter

nigga volume 2

y'all niggaz get ready

it's the hard knock life

for us

it's the hard knock life

for us!

steada treated

we get tricked

steada kisses

we get kicked

it's the hard knock life!

i flow for those 'dro'ed out; all my niggaz

locked down in the ten by fo'

controllin the house

we live in hard knocks

we don't take over we borrow blocks

burn em down and you can have it back daddy

i'd rather that

i flow for chicks wishin

they ain't have to strip to pay tuition

i see you vision mama

i put my money on the longshots

all my ballers that's born to clock

now i'ma be on top whether i perform or not

i went from lukewarm to hot; sleepin on futons and cots

to king size

dream machines

the green fives

i've seen pies let the thing between my eyes analyze life's ills

then i put it down type braile

i'm tight grill with the phony

rappers y'all might feel we homies

i'm like still

y'all don't know me

shit!

i'm tight grill when my situation ain't improvin

i'm tryin to murder everything movin

feel me?!

it's the hard knock life

for us

it's the hard knock life

for us!

steada treated

we get tricked

steada kisses

we get kicked

it's the hard knock life

for us

it's the hard knock life

for us!

steada treated

we get tricked

steada kisses

we get kicked

it's the hard knock life!

i don't how to sleep

i gotta eat

stay on my toes

gotta a lot of beef

so logically

i prey on my foes

hustling's still inside of me

and as far as progress

you'd be hard-pressed

to find another rapper hot as me

i gave you prophecy on my first joint

and y'all lamed out

didn't really appreciate it

til the second one came out

so i stretched the game out

x'ed your name out

put jigga on top

and drop albums non-stop for ya

nigguh!

it's the hard knock life

for us

it's the hard knock life

for us!

steada treated

we get tricked

steada kisses

we get kicked

it's the hard knock life

for us

it's the hard knock life

for us!

steada treated

we get tricked

steada kisses

we get kicked

it's the hard knock life!

it's the hard knock life!

it's the hard knock life!