[ar:JAY Z]
[ti:Hard knock life]
[00:01.460]Hard knock life - JAY Z
[00:03.660]Check the bassline out, uh-huh
[00:08.170]Jigga (bounce wit it), uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh, yeahh
[00:12.020]It's the hard knock life (uh-huh) for us
[00:15.170]It's the hard knock life, for us!!
[00:18.170]Steada treated, we get tricked
[00:21.370]Steada kisses, we get kicked
[00:24.120]It's the hard knock life!!
[00:25.920]From standin on the corners boppin
[00:27.420]to drivin some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen
[00:31.070]For droppin some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard
[00:33.720]From the dope spot, with the smoke Glock
[00:35.820]fleein the murder scene, you know me well
[00:37.970]from nightmares of a lonely cell, my only hell
[00:40.970]But since when y'all niggaz know me to fail? Fuck naw
[00:44.020]Where all my niggaz with the rubber grips, bust shots
[00:47.540]And if you with me mom I rub on your tits, and what-not
[00:50.190]I'm from the school of the hard knocks, we must not
[00:53.590]let outsiders violate our blocks, and my plot
[00:56.440]let's stick up the world and split it fifty/fifty, uh-huh
[00:59.090]Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy, uh-huh
[01:02.440]And sip the Cris' and get pissy-pissy
[01:04.490]Flow infinitely like the memory of my nigga Biggie, baby!
[01:08.890]You know it's hell when I come through
[01:11.190]The life and times of Shawn Carter
[01:13.090]nigga Volume 2.
[01:13.840]It's the hard knock life, for us
[01:17.440]It's the hard knock life, for us!!
[01:20.640]Steada treated, we get tricked
[01:23.540]Steada kisses, we get kicked
[01:26.590]It's the hard knock life!!
[01:29.440]I flow for those 'dro'ed out; all my niggaz
[01:32.490]locked down in the ten by fo', controllin the house
[01:35.090]We live in hard knocks, we don't take over we borrow blocks
[01:37.740]Burn em down and you can have it back daddy, I'd rather that
[01:40.890]I flow for chicks wishin, they ain't have to strip to pay tuition
[01:44.390]I see you vision mama, I put my money on the longshots
[01:48.090]All my ballers that's born to clock
[01:50.090]Now I'ma be on top whether I perform or not
[01:53.040]I went from lukewarm to hot; sleepin on futons and cots
[01:56.840]to King Size, dream machines, the green fives
[01:59.490]I've seen pies let the thing between my eyes analyze life's ills
[02:02.640]Then I put it down type braile
[02:03.990]I'm tight grill with the phony, rappers y'all might feel we homies
[02:09.390]I'm like still, y'all don't know me, shit!
[02:11.990]I'm tight grill when my situation ain't improvin
[02:15.290]I'm tryin to murder everything movin, feel me?!
[02:18.200]It's the hard knock life, for us
[02:20.690]It's the hard knock life, for us!!
[02:23.750]Steada treated, we get tricked
[02:26.800]Steada kisses, we get kicked
[02:30.000]It's the hard knock life, for us
[02:33.050]It's the hard knock life, for us!!
[02:36.350]Steada treated, we get tricked
[02:39.150]Steada kisses, we get kicked
[02:42.400]It's the hard knock life!!
[02:44.150]I don't how to sleep, I gotta eat, stay on my toes
[02:47.400]Gotta a lot of beef, so logically, I prey on my foes
[02:50.300]Hustling's still inside of me, and as far as progress
[02:53.350]you'd be hard-pressed, to find another rapper hot as me
[02:56.800]I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out
[03:00.100]Didn't really appreciate it, til the second one came out
[03:02.850]So I stretched the game out, X'ed your name out
[03:05.750]Put Jigga on top, and drop albums non-stop for ya, nigguh!
[03:08.450]It's the hard knock life, for us
[03:11.100]It's the hard knock life, for us!!
[03:14.400]Steada treated, we get tricked
[03:17.300]Steada kisses, we get kicked
[03:20.600]It's the hard knock life, for us
[03:23.650]It's the hard knock life, for us!!
[03:26.800]Steada treated, we get tricked
[03:29.750]Steada kisses, we get kicked
[03:33.050]It's the hard knock life!!
[03:45.450].. It's the hard knock life!!
[03:57.750].. It's the hard knock life!!