Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) (live)-JAY-Z

[00:00.00] 作词 : James, Mark Howard / Strouse, Charles / Charnin, Martin / Carter, Shawn C. [00:01.00] 作曲 : James, Mark Howard / Strouse, Charles / Charnin, Martin / Carter, Shawn C. [00:04.44]Check the bassline out, uh-huh [00:05.40]Jigga (bounce wit it), uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh, yeahh [00:13.47]Let it bump though [00:13.86]It's the hard knock life (uh-huh) for us [00:16.44]It's the hard knock life, for us! [00:17.10]Steada treated, we get tricked [00:17.85]Steada kisses, we get kicked [00:24.48]It's the hard knock life! [00:24.93]From standin' on the corners boppin' [00:25.74]To drivin' some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen [00:27.00]For droppin' some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard [00:28.26]From the **** spot, with the smoke Glock [00:28.95]Fleein' the murder scene, you know me well [00:31.59]From nightmares of a lonely cell, my only hell [00:34.26]But since when y'all ****** know me to fail? **** naw [00:35.28]Where all my ****** with the rubber grips, bust shots [00:36.21]And if you with me mom I rub on your tits, and what-not [00:37.56]I'm from the school of the hard knocks, we must not [00:38.58]Let outsiders violate our blocks, and my plot [00:39.93]Let's stick up the world and split it fifty/fifty, uh-huh [00:41.37]Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy, uh-huh [00:42.42]And sip the Cris' and get pissy-pissy [00:43.26]Flow infinitely like the memory of my ***** Biggie, baby! [00:44.64]You know it's hell when I come through [00:45.63]The life and times of Shawn Carter [00:46.44]***** Volume 2, y'all ****** get ready [00:46.98]It's the hard knock life, for us [00:47.88]It's the hard knock life, for us! [00:48.48]Steada treated, we get tricked [00:49.11]Steada kisses, we get kicked [00:49.83]It's the hard knock life! [00:50.49]I flow for those 'dro'ed out, all my ****** [00:51.09]Locked down in the ten by fo', controllin' the house [00:52.08]We live in hard knocks, we don't take over we borrow blocks [00:53.46]Burn em down and you can have it back daddy, I'd rather that [00:54.96]I flow for chicks wishin', they ain't have to strip to pay tuition [00:56.28]I see you vision mama, I put my money on the long shots [00:57.63]All my ballers that's born to clock [00:58.68]Now I'ma be on top whether I perform or not [00:59.58]I went from lukewarm to hot; sleepin' on futons and cots [01:01.02]To king size, green machines, the green fives [01:02.13]I've seen pies let the thing between my eyes analyze life's ills [01:03.66]Then I put it down type braile [01:04.35]I'm tight grill with the phony, rappers y'all might feel we homies [01:05.61]I'm like still, y'all don't know me, ****! [01:06.36]I'm tight grill when my situation ain't improving [01:07.68]I'm tryin to murder everything movin', feel me?! [01:08.76]It's the hard knock life, for us [01:09.39]It's the hard knock life, for us! [01:09.99]Steada treated, we get tricked [01:10.74]Steada kisses, we get kicked [01:11.52]It's the hard knock life, for us [01:12.18]It's the hard knock life, for us! [01:12.90]Steada treated, we get tricked [01:13.53]Steada kisses, we get kicked [01:14.13]It's the hard knock life! [01:14.61]I don't how to sleep, I gotta eat, stay on my toes [01:15.54]Gotta a lot of beef, so logically, I prey on my foes [01:16.68]Hustling's still inside of me, and as far as progress [01:17.94]You'd be hard-pressed, to find another rapper hot as me [01:19.44]I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out [01:20.58]Didn't really appreciate it, til the second one came out [01:21.72]So I stretched the game out, X'ed your name out [01:22.56]Put Jigga on top, and drop albums non-stop for ya, nigguh! [01:23.82]It's the hard knock life, for us [01:24.69]It's the hard knock life, for us! [01:25.29]Steada treated, we get tricked [01:25.92]Steada kisses, we get kicked [01:26.52]It's the hard knock life, for us [01:27.15]It's the hard knock life, for us! [01:27.75]Steada treated, we get tricked [01:28.38]Steada kisses, we get kicked [01:28.98]It's the hard knock life! [01:29.55]It's the hard knock life! [01:30.78]It's the hard knock life!