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| [00:00.00] | "Hardknock" |
| [00:22.06] | Check it, word word |
| [00:24.42] | What's the word word |
| [00:28.68] | Yeah, check! |
| [00:34.70] | Just got word from my mans on the island, he said he needed guidance |
| [00:38.06] | Niggas on the streets is walling, he look to God but can't find him |
| [00:41.47] | So he demand silence from the glaring sirens |
| [00:43.78] | The sympathy symphony, only thing playing is the banned violence |
| [00:47.09] | No lying niggas just won't let go the iron |
| [00:49.41] | They wanna burn your molecules until you let go ions |
| [00:52.48] | Treat beef like they let go lions |
| [00:54.64] | So don't eye 'em they get the wrong message, wrong methods |
| [00:57.15] | Put you on that long stretcher |
| [00:58.61] | Too much pressure God bless ya when the semi wet'cha |
| [01:01.67] | They told me "more dress-up" I'm giving too many lectures |
| [01:04.63] | And I'm putting in too many effort in my nouns and verbs |
| [01:08.14] | Like "they gon' catch up" **** what you must heard! |
| [01:10.25] | But I done puffed enough herb |
| [01:12.91] | To be listening to young birds and dumb nerds |
| [01:15.57] | I got enough shit on my mind |
| [01:18.69] | So I don't need to be stressing and shine, it's fine |
| [01:21.75] | One day I'm tryna have a wife and kids |
| [01:24.41] | So I just can't live my life like this |
| [01:26.82] | And I ain't tryna learn what lifeless is |
| [01:30.17] | So I just can't live my life like this |
| [01:33.35] | I want the gold chains and diamond rings |
| [01:36.15] | But I just can't live my life like this |
| [01:38.46] | And sometimes I just wanna light this spliff |
| [01:41.78] | But I just can't live my life like this |
| [01:44.14] | Got a collect call from up top |
| [01:46.19] | My cousin called me and what not |
| [01:48.05] | The motto never changed it's still **** cops |
| [01:50.36] | We went from having lunch in our lunchbox |
| [01:52.47] | Our lungs was hot whenever we'd puff pot |
| [01:54.58] | We'd touch blocks and end up having to duck shots |
| [01:56.98] | But **** dot, ain't trying live that life no more |
| [01:59.24] | My mind corrupted but my heart is still pure |
| [02:02.00] | Gotta be brave can't be afraid |
| [02:03.20] | Braids and waves never matter when you catch the fade |
| [02:05.61] | Trapped in a maze and your faith is your only escape |
| [02:08.63] | **** a priest's opinion, knock the hinges off of Heaven's gates |
| [02:11.70] | Trying to share my cells with my mate, not share a cell with mates |
| [02:14.55] | Wrecking shit with my recklessness |
| [02:16.60] | The L get lit that's when I start second guessing shit |
| [02:20.37] | Thinking 'bout Ty and then I reminisce |
| [02:22.82] | What you thought you niggas could've **** me over |
| [02:24.79] | Never nigga guess again |
| [02:26.19] | I'm street so cross me like pedestrians |
| [02:28.90] | And that's gon' be the end of it, straight revoking your membership |
| [02:32.31] | One day I'm tryna have a wife and kids |
| [02:34.32] | So I just can't live my life like this |
| [02:36.68] | And I ain't tryna learn what lifeless is |
| [02:39.99] | So I just can't live my life like this |
| [02:42.56] | I want the gold chains and diamond rings |
| [02:46.11] | But I just can't live my life like this |
| [02:48.48] | And sometimes I just wanna light this spliff |
| [02:51.69] | But I just can't live my life like this |
| [02:54.10] | Niggas wanna know what I'm about, I'm bout blowing loud |
| [02:57.67] | On the block sporty, Glock 40 in a politician mouth |
| [03:01.03] | I take the competition out commission with my composition |
| [03:03.84] | Who the kid spitting behind the bars like a con position |
| [03:06.90] | Gotta give 'em time to listen, they'll soon bump to it |
| [03:10.80] | They'll like me, I kick it like Nike they'll soon adjust to it |
| [03:13.10] | But if you hate I know you must do it |
| [03:16.02] | I ain't mad at you I keep my attitude on "screw it a million bucks should do it" |
| [03:19.99] | I'm out for presidents to represent me |
| [03:21.94] | Yo chick keep messaging me, who the bestest MC? They be mentioning me |
| [03:25.57] | Too hot, I be molesting the beat, **** math |
| [03:28.52] | Teachers should teach us to get Smith & Wesson's off of the street |
| [03:31.50] | So first class be a lesson for me |
| [03:33.49] | **** what you teaching for some regents, I'm flying over regions |
| [03:37.32] | Reaching, all time highs where Jesus can't reach us |
| [03:39.96] | Step to me and get the recipe to make you rest in peace |
| [03:43.11] | This is for my niggas, killers, hundred dollar billers |
| [03:45.73] | On the block in the rock spot, Glock ****ed watching out for cops |
| [03:48.98] | All about their cheddar, young guns know nothing that's better |
| [03:52.15] | Like **** a prison letter, those Beretta's led us to the lettuce |
| [03:54.81] | Relish fetishes, menaces want the senator's percentages |
| [03:58.12] | If you ain't prejudice you still a nemesis |
| [04:00.27] | Smoking on the Clematis, get open like a present is |
| [04:03.08] | Now your presence is on the premises for them presidents |
| [04:06.25] | My city be the genesis for where they think the terror is |
| [04:09.27] | They linking terrorists from the Stuy then Lincoln Terraces |
| [04:12.24] | Stay on that reckless shit, they leave you left for the dead |
| [04:15.29] | Kids don't play they'll erase your head in a race for the bread |
| [04:17.55] | Children on the corners slinging some regs, popping some meds |
| [04:20.76] | Jakes be so deep in cover they be chasing the feds |
| [04:22.57] | I be back stage gripping haze breaking my leg |
| [04:26.03] | My folks was making the best when they was naked in bed, mutha****a |
| [04:30.45] | One day I'm tryna have a wife and kids |
| [04:32.21] | So I just can't live my life like this |
| [04:36.03] | And I ain't tryna learn what lifeless is |
| [04:37.83] | So I just can't live my life like this |
| [04:41.00] | I want the gold chains and diamond rings |
| [04:43.86] | But I just can't live my life like this |
| [04:46.72] | And sometimes I just wanna light this spliff |
| [04:49.68] | But I just can't live my life like this |
| [04:52.55] | by og |