Take the baseline out
uh huh
Jigga uh huh uh huh uh huh
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 standing on the
corner poppin
To driving some of the hottest
cars New York has ever seen
To dropping some of the hottest
verses rap has ever heard
From the dope spot
where the smoke lock
Fleeing the murder scene
you know me well
From nightmares of a lonely cel
my only hell
But since when ya'll niggas
know me to bail Fuck Naw
Where all my niggas
with the rubber grips
off shots
And if you with me ma
I rubbing your tits
and what not
I'm form 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 50 50
uh huh
Let's take the dough and
stay real jiggy uh huh
Let's sip the Cris and
get pissy pissy
Flow imminently 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
ya'll niggas get ready
It's the hard knock life
for us
It's the hard knock life
for u
Steada treated
we get tricked
Steada kisses
we get kicked
It's the hard knock life
I flow for those droned out
All my niggas locked
in the 10 by 4
controlling the house
We live in hard knocks
we don't take over
we bomb blocks
Burn 'em down and you can have
'em back daddy
I'd rather that
I flow for chicks wishing
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 born to glock
Now I'ma be on top
whether I perform or not
I went from lukewarm to hot
Sleeping on guitars and cots
the king size
dream machine to grie
I've seen pies let the
thing between my eyes
analyze life's ill
Then I put it down tight grill
I'm tight grill with the phony
rappers you might feel we homeys
I'm like still you don't know m
shit
I'm tight grill when my situation
ain't improving
I'm trying to murder
everything moving 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 u
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 know how to sleep
I gotta eat
stay on my toes
Gotta a lot of beef
so logically I prey on my foes
Hustlin still inside of me
and as far as progress
You be hardpressed
to find another rapper
hot as me
I gave you prophecy
on my first joint
and ya'll lamed out
Didn't really appreciate it
till 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 nigga
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