[00:00.00] 作曲 : C. Strouse/Martin Charnin/S. Carter/M. James
[00:00.687] 作词 : C. Strouse/Martin Charnin/S. Carter/M. James
[00:02.61]Check the bassline out uh-huh
[00:07.17]Jigga(bounce wit it)uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh yeahh
[00:11.14]Let it bump though
[00:12.46]It's the hard knock life(uh-huh)for us
[00:14.30]It's the hard knock life for us
[00:17.45]Steada Treated we get tricked
[00:19.40]Steada kisses we get kicked
[00:23.59]It's the hard knock life
[00:24.62]From standin on the corners boppin
[00:26.05]To drivin some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen
[00:30.01]For droppin some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard
[00:32.19]From the dope spot with the smoke Glock
[00:34.83]Fleein the murder scene you know me well
[00:37.29]From nightmares of a lonely cell my only hell
[00:39.52]But since when y'all niggaz know me to fail F**k naw
[00:42.80]Where all my niggaz with the rubber grips bust shots
[00:46.27]And if you with me mom I rub on your tits and what-not
[00:50.80]I'm from the school of the hard knocks we must not
[00:52.61]Let outsiders violate our blocks and my plot
[00:54.62]Let's stick up the world and split it fifty/fifty uh-huh
[00:57.82]Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy uh-huh
[01:01.06]And sip the Cris' and get pissy-pissy
[01:04.36]Flow infinitely like the memory of my nigga Biggie baby
[01:07.14]You know it's hell when I come through
[01:10.37]The life and times of Shawn Carter
[01:12.08]Steada treated we get tricked
[01:13.50]Nigga Volume 2 y'all niggaz get ready
[01:15.04]Steada kisses we get kicked
[01:28.28]I flow for those 'dro'ed out all my niggaz
[01:30.13]It's the hard knock life
[01:31.65]Locked down in the ten by fo' controllin the house
[01:33.90]Annie sample]
[01:33.97]It's the hard knock life for us
[01:35.79]It's the hard knock life for us
[01:36.87]We live in hard knocks we don't take over we borrow blocks
[01:42.19]Burn em down and you can have it back daddy I'd rather that
[01:44.36]I flow for chicks wishin they ain't have to strip to pay tuition
[01:45.56]I see you vision mama I put my money on the longshots
[01:47.98]All my ballers that's born to clock
[01:51.86]Now I'ma be on top whether I perform or not
[01:53.71]I went from lukewarm to hot sleepin on futons and cots
[01:55.85]To King Size dream machines the green fives
[01:58.17]I've seen pies let the thing between my eyes analyze life's ills
[02:01.22]Then I put it down type braile
[02:03.88]I'm tight grill with the phony rappers y'all might feel we homies
[02:07.73]I'm like still y'all don't know me shit
[02:10.42]I'm tight grill when my situation ain't improvin
[02:13.13]I'm tryin to murder everything movin feel me
[02:16.58]It's the hard knock life for us
[02:18.92]It's the hard knock life for us
[02:21.90]Steada treated we get tricked
[02:23.82]Steada kisses we get kicked
[02:27.96]It's the hard knock life for us
[02:31.29]It's the hard knock life for us
[02:34.39]Steada treated we get tricked
[02:36.14]Steada kisses we get kicked
[02:39.77]It's the hard knock life
[02:42.02]I don't how to sleep I gotta eat stay on my toes
[02:44.69]Gotta a lot of beef so logically I prey on my foes
[02:47.63]Hustling's still inside of me and as far as progress
[02:51.25]You'd be hard-pressed to find another rapper hot as me
[02:54.23]I gave you prophecy on my first joint and y'all lamed out
[02:56.95]Didn't really appreciate it til the second one came out
[03:00.44]So I stretched the game out X'ed your name out
[03:03.22]Put Jigga on top and drop albums non-stop for ya nigguh
[03:07.05]It's the hard knock life for us
[03:08.77]It's the hard knock life for us
[03:11.21]Steada treated we get tricked
[03:13.15]Steada kisses we get kicked
[03:16.90]It's the hard knock life for us
[03:19.66]It's the hard knock life for us
[03:24.40]Steada treated we get tricked
[03:27.47]Steada kisses we get kicked
[03:30.58]It's the hard knock life
[03:32.55]It's the hard knock life
[03:35.65]It's the hard knock life