Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)-JAY-Z

[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 **** spot, with the smoke Glock [00:35.820]fleein the murder scene, you know me well [00:37.970]from nigh****ares of a lonely cell, my only hell [00:40.970]But since when y'all *****z know me to fail? ***** naw [00:44.020]Where all my *****z with the rubber grips, bust shots [00:47.540]And if you with me mom I rub on your *****, 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 ***** 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]***** 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 *****z [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 wi*****n, 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 *****yze 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, *****t! [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!!