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Check the bassline out uh-huh |
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Jigga(bounce wit it)uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh yeahh |
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Let it bump though |
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It's the hard knock life(uh-huh)for us |
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It's the hard knock life for us |
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Steada Treated we get tricked |
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Steada kisses we get kicked |
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It's the hard knock life |
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From standin on the corners boppin |
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To drivin some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen |
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For droppin some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard |
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From the dope spot with the smoke Glock |
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Fleein the murder scene you know me well |
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From nightmares of a lonely cell my only hell |
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But since when y'all niggaz know me to fail F**k naw |
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Where all my niggaz with the rubber grips bust shots |
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And if you with me mom I rub on your tits and what-not |
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I'm from the school of the hard knocks we must not |
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Let outsiders violate our blocks and my plot |
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Let's stick up the world and split it fifty/fifty uh-huh |
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Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy uh-huh |
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And sip the Cris' and get pissy-pissy |
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Flow infinitely like the memory of my nigga Biggie baby |
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You know it's hell when I come through |
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The life and times of Shawn Carter |
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Steada treated we get tricked |
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Nigga Volume 2 y'all niggaz get ready |
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Steada kisses we get kicked |
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I flow for those 'dro'ed out all my niggaz |
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It's the hard knock life |
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Locked down in the ten by fo' controllin the house |
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It's the hard knock life for us |
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It's the hard knock life for us |
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We live in hard knocks we don't take over we borrow blocks |
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Burn em down and you can have it back daddy I'd rather that |
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I flow for chicks wishin they ain't have to strip to pay tuition |
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I see you vision mama I put my money on the longshots |
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All my ballers that's born to clock |
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Now I'ma be on top whether I perform or not |
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I went from lukewarm to hot sleepin on futons and cots |
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To King Size dream machines the green fives |
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I've seen pies let the thing between my eyes analyze life's ills |
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Then I put it down type braile |
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I'm tight grill with the phony rappers y'all might feel we homies |
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I'm like still y'all don't know me shit |
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I'm tight grill when my situation ain't improvin |
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I'm tryin to murder everything movin feel me |
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It's the hard knock life for us |
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It's the hard knock life for us |
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Steada treated we get tricked |
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Steada kisses we get kicked |
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It's the hard knock life for us |
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It's the hard knock life for us |
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Steada treated we get tricked |
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Steada kisses we get kicked |
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It's the hard knock life |
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I don't how to sleep I gotta eat stay on my toes |
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Gotta a lot of beef so logically I prey on my foes |
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Hustling's still inside of me and as far as progress |
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You'd be hard-pressed to find another rapper hot as me |
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I gave you prophecy on my first joint and y'all lamed out |
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Didn't really appreciate it til the second one came out |
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So I stretched the game out X'ed your name out |
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Put Jigga on top and drop albums non-stop for ya nigguh |
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It's the hard knock life for us |
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It's the hard knock life for us |
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Steada treated we get tricked |
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Steada kisses we get kicked |
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It's the hard knock life for us |
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It's the hard knock life for us |
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Steada treated we get tricked |
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Steada kisses we get kicked |
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It's the hard knock life |
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It's the hard knock life |
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It's the hard knock life |