Jay Hard Knock Life Lyrics

Hard Knock Life Lyrics

Jay-Z: 

 Take the baseline out, uh huh 

 Jigga uh huh uh huh uh huh 

  

 Annie Sample:  

 It's the hard knock life for us (uh-huh) 

 It's the hard knock life for us 

 Instead of treated, we get tricked 

 Instead of kisses, we get kicked 

 It's the hard knock life!! 

  

 Verse 1: 

 >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 cell, 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 

  

 Annie Sample:  

 It's the hard knock life for us  

 It's the hard knock life for us 

 Instead of treated, we get tricked 

 Instead of kisses, we get kicked 

 It's the hard knock life!! 

  

 Verse 2: 

 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 futons and cots, the king size, dream machine to grief  

 I've seen pies let the thing between my eyes analyze life's ills 

 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 me, shit 

 I'm tight grill when my situation ain't improving 

 I'm trying to murder everything moving, Feel Me!! 

  

 Annie Sample:  

 It's the hard knock life for us  

 It's the hard knock life for us 

 Instead of treated, we get tricked 

 Instead of 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!!  

  

 Verse 3: 

 I don't 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 

  

 Annie Sample:  

 It's the hard knock life for us  

 It's the hard knock life for us 

 Instead of treated, we get tricked 

 Instead of kisses, we get kicked 

 It's the hard knock life for us  

 It's the hard knock life for us 

 Instead of treated, we get tricked 

 Instead of kisses, we get kicked 

 It's the hard knock life!! 

  

 It's the hard knock life!! 

  

 It's the hard knock life