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Check the bassline out, uh huh |
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Jigga, uh huh, uh huh, uh huh, yeah |
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Let it bump though |
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It's the hard knock life, for us |
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It's the hard knock life, for us |
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Steada treated, we get tricked |
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Steada kisses, we get kicked |
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It's the hard knock life |
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From standin' on the corners boppin' |
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To drivin' some of the hottest cars, New York has ever seen |
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For droppin' some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard |
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From the **** spot, with the smoke glock |
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Fleein' the murder scene, you know me well |
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From nigh****ares of a lonely cell, my only hell |
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But since when y'all *****z know me to fail? ***** naw |
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Where all my *****z with the rubber grips, bust shots? |
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And if you with me, mom, I rub on your *****, and what not |
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I'm from the school of the hard knocks, we must not |
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Let outsiders violate our blocks, and my plot |
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Let's stick up the world and split it fifty-fifty |
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Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy |
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And sip the cris' and get pissy pissy |
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Flow infinitely like the memory of my ***** biggie, baby |
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You know it's hell when I come through |
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The life and times of Shawn Carter |
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***** Volume 2, y'all *****z get ready |
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It's the hard knock life, for us |
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It's the hard knock life, for us |
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Steada treated, we get tricked |
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Steada kisses, we get kicked |
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It's the hard knock life! |
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I flow for those 'dro'ed out all my *****z |
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Locked down in the ten by fo', controllin' the house |
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We live in hard knocks, we don't take over we borrow blocks |
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Burn 'em down and you can have it back, daddy, I'd rather that |
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I flow for chicks wi*****n', they ain't have to strip to pay tuition |
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I see you vision mama, I put my money on the longshots |
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All my ballers that's born to clock |
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Now I'ma be on top whether I perform or not |
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I went from lukewarm to hot, sleepin' on futons and cots |
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To king size dream machines, the green fives |
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I've seen pies let the thing between my eyes *****yze life's ills |
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Then I put it down type braille |
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I'm tight grill with the phony, rappers y'all might feel we homies |
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I'm like still, y'all don't know me, *****t |
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I'm tight grill when my situation ain't improvin' |
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I'm tryin' to murder everything movin', feel me |
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It's the hard knock life, for us |
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It's the hard knock life, for us |
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Steada treated, we get tricked |
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Steada kisses, we get kicked |
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It's the hard knock life, for us |
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It's the hard knock life, for us |
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Steada treated, we get tricked |
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Steada kisses, we get kicked |
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It's the hard knock life |
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I don't know how to sleep, I gotta eat, stay on my toes |
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Gotta a lot of beef, so logically, I prey on my foes |
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Hustling's still inside of me, and as far as progress |
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You'd be hard-pressed, to find another rapper hot as me |
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I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out |
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Didn't really appreciate it, till the second one came out |
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So I stretched the game out, x'ed your name out |
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Put jigga on top, drop albums non-stop for ya, ***** |
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It's the hard knock life, for us |
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It's the hard knock life, for us |
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Steada treated, we get tricked |
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Steada kisses, we get kicked |
| [03:18.59] |
It's the hard knock life, for us |
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It's the hard knock life, for us |
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Steada treated, we get tricked |
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Steada kisses, we get kicked |
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It's the hard knock life |
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It's the hard knock life |
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It's the hard knock life |
