[00:00:00] Hard Knock Life 
[00:03:00] Take the baseline out, uh huh 
[00:07:00] Jigga uh huh uh huh uh huh 
[00:11:00] It"s the hard knock life for us (uh-huh) 
[00:14:00] It"s the hard knock life for us 
[00:18:00] Steada treated, we get tricked 
[00:21:00] Steada kisses, we get kicked 
[00:24:00] It"s the hard knock life!! 
[00:25:00] From standing on the corner poppin 
[00:27:00] To driving some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen 
[00:30:00] To dropping some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard 
[00:33:00] From the dope spot, where the smoke lock 
[00:35:00] Fleeing the murder scene, you know me well 
[00:37:00] From nightmares of a lonely cell, my only hell 
[00:40:00] But since when ya"ll niggas know me to bail? Fuck Naw 
[00:44:00] Where all my niggas with the rubber grips, off shots 
[00:46:00] And if you with me ma I rubbing your tits, and what not 
[00:49:00] I"m form the school of the hard knocks, we must not 
[00:53:00] Let outsiders violate our blocks, and my plot 
[00:55:00] Let"s stick up the world and split it 50-50, uh huh 
[00:59:00] Let"s take the dough and stay real jiggy, uh huh 
[01:02:00] Let"s sip the Cris and get pissy pissy 
[01:04:00] Flow imminently like the memory of my nigga Biggie, baby! 
[01:08:00] You know it"s hell when I come through 
[01:11:00] The life and times of Shawn Carter nigga Volume 2, ya"ll niggas get ready 
[01:14:00] It"s the hard knock life for us 
[01:17:00] It"s the hard knock life for us 
[01:20:00] Steada treated, we get tricked 
[01:23:00] Steada kisses, we get kicked 
[01:26:00] It"s the hard knock life!! 
[01:28:00] I flow for those droned out 
[01:30:00] All my niggas locked in the 10 by 4 controlling the house 
[01:33:00] We live in hard knocks we don"t take over we bomb blocks 
[01:37:00] Burn "em down and you can have "em back daddy, I"d rather that 
[01:40:00] I flow for chicks wishing they ain"t have to strip to pay tuition 
[01:43:00] I see you vision mama, I
[01:47:00] All my ballers that born to glock 
[01:49:00] Now I"ma be on top whether I perform or not 
[01:52:00] I went from lukewarm to hot 
[01:54:00] Sleeping on guitars and cots, the king size, dream machine to grief 
[01:58:00] I"ve seen pies let the thing between my eyes analyze life"s ills 
[02:03:00] Then I put it down tight grill 
[02:04:00] I"m tight grillwith the phony rappers you might feel we homeys
[02:08:00] I"m like still you don"t know me, shit 
[02:11:00] I"m tight grill when my situation ain"t improving 
[02:14:00] I"m trying to murder everything moving, Feel Me!! 
[02:16:00] It"s the hard knock life for us 
[02:19:00] It"s the hard knock life for us 
[02:22:00] Steada treated, we get tricked 
[02:25:00] Steada kisses, we get kicked 
[02:29:00] It"s the hard knock life for us 
[02:32:00] It"s the hard knock life for us 
[02:35:00] Steada treated, we get tricked 
[02:38:00] Steada kisses, we get kicked 
[02:41:00] It"s the hard knock life!! 
[02:42:00] I don"t how to sleep, I gotta eat, stay on my toes 
[02:45:00] Gotta a lot of beef so logically I prey on my foes 
[02:48:00] Hustlin still inside of me and as far as progress 
[02:51:00] You be hardpressed to find another rapper hot as me 
[02:54:00] I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and ya"ll lamed out 
[02:58:00] Didn"t really appreciate it till the second one came out 
[03:01:00] So I stretched the game out, X"ed your name out 
[03:04:00] Put Jigga on top, and drop albums non-stop for ya nigga 
[03:06:00] It"s the hard knock life for us 
[03:09:00] It"s the hard knock life for us 
[03:12:00] Steada treated, we get tricked 
[03:15:00] Steada kisses, we get kicked 
[03:19:00] It"s the hard knock life for us 
[03:21:00] It"s the hard knock life for us 
[03:25:00] Steada treated, we get tricked 
[03:28:00] Steada kisses, we get kicked 
[03:31:00] It"s the hard knock life!! 
[03:43:00] It"s the hard knock life!! 
[03:56:00] It"s the hard knock life!!