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!