[ti:hard knock life] [ar:jay z] [00:03.39]Take the baseline out...uh huh [00:07.30]Jigga..uh huh uh huh uh huh [00:11.54]Annie Sample: [00:12.10]It's the hard knock life for us （uh-huh） [00:14.46]It's the hard knock life for us [00:16.76]Stead of treated...we get tricked [00:19.42]Stead of kisses...we get kicked [00:22.95]It's the hard knock life!! [00:24.74]Verse 1: [00:25.20]From standing on the corners boppin... [00:26.43]To driving some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen... [00:29.65]For dropping some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard... [00:32.36]From the dope spot...where the smoke lock [00:34.92]Fleeing the murder scene...you know me well [00:37.99]From nightmares of a lonely cell...my only hell [00:40.09]But since when ya'll niggas know me to bail?Fuck Naw [00:43.00]Where all my niggas with the rubber grips...bust shots [00:45.61]And if you with me ma I rubbing your tits...and what not [00:48.88]I'm form the school of the hard knocks...we must not [00:52.06]Let outsiders violate our blocks...and my plot [00:54.51]Let's stick up the world and split it 50-50...uh huh [00:58.09]Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy...uh huh [01:01.32]Let's sip the Crys and get pissy pissy... [01:04.09]Flow imminently like the memory of my nigga Biggie,baby! [01:07.00]You know it's hell when I come through... [01:10.12]The life and times of Shawn Carter nigga Volume 2...ya'll niggas get ready [01:13.90]Annie Sample: [01:14.93]It's the hard knock life for us [01:16.41]It's the hard knock life for us [01:19.17]Steada treated...we get tricked [01:20.55]Steada kisses...we get kicked [01:22.14]It's the hard knock life!! [01:27.61]Verse 2: [01:28.12]I flow for those droned out... [01:29.24]All my niggas locked down in the 10by 4controlling the house [01:32.37]We live in hard knocks we don't take over...we bomb blocks [01:35.49]Burn 'em down and you can have 'em back daddy,I'd rather that [01:39.48]I flow for chicks wishing...they ain't have to strip to pay tuition [01:42.14]I see you vision mama...I put my money on the longshots [01:45.62]All my ballers thats born to glock Now I'ma be on top whether I perform or not [01:51.35]I went from lukewarm to hot [01:53.49]Sleeping on guitars and cots...the king size,dream machine to grief [01:56.51]I've seen pies let the thing between my eyes analyze life's ills [02:00.34]Then I put it down tight grill [02:02.19]I'm tight grill with the phony...rappers you might feel we homeys [02:05.05]I'm like still you don't know me...shit [02:10.62]I'm tight grill when my situation ain't improving [02:13.08]I'm trying to murder everything moving,Feel Me!! [02:16.04]Annie Sample: [02:16.56]It's the hard knock life for us [02:18.09]It's the hard knock life for us [02:21.77]Stead of treated...we get tricked [02:24.28]Stead of kisses...we get kicked [02:27.50]It's the hard knock life for us [02:30.57]It's the hard knock life for us [02:33.90]Stead of treated...we get tricked [02:36.66]Stead of kisses...we get kicked [02:40.24]It's the hard knock life!!! [02:41.77]Verse 3: [02:42.13]I don't know how to sleep..I gotta eat..stay on my toes [02:44.69]Gotta a lot of beef so logically I prey on my foes [02:47.81]Hustlin still inside of me and as far as progress [02:50.47]You be hardpressed to find another rapper hot as me [02:53.89]I gave you prophecy on my first joint...and ya'll lamed out [02:56.91]Didn't really appreciate it till the second one came out [03:00.29]So I stretched the game out..X'ed your name out [03:03.20]Put Jigga on top..and drop albums non-stop for ya nigga [03:05.76]Annie Sample: [03:06.58]It's the hard knock life for us [03:08.27]It's the hard knock life for us [03:11.23]Stead of treated...we get tricked [03:14.51]Stead of kisses...we get kicked [03:17.52]It's the hard knock life for us [03:20.64]It's the hard knock life for us [03:24.07]Stead of treated...we get tricked [03:25.76]Stead of kisses...we get kicked [03:28.11]It's the hard knock life!! [03:31.90]It's the hard knock life!! [03:52.00]It's the hard knock life!!