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Talking: Check the bassline out uh huh Jigga
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uh huh uh huh uh huh yeah let it bump though
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*hook comes in over last line*
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[Hook] *from the movie, "Annie"
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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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Instead of treated we get tricked
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Instead of kisses we get kicked
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It's the hard knock life
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-1-
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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 rappers ever heard
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For the dope spot with the smoke lot bringin' the murder scene
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You know me well from nightmares of a lonely cell my only hell
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But since when y'all niggas know me to fail?
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Fuck naw Where all my niggas with the rubber grips or shots?
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And if you with me mama rub on ya tits & what not
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I'm from the school of the hard knocks you must not
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let outsiders violate our blocks & my plot
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is stick up the world and split it 50/50
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uh huh let's take the dough & stay real tricky
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uh huh let's sip the Crist & get pissy pissy
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flow infinitely like the memory of my nigga Biggie [Baby!]
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You know it's hell when I come through
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The Life & Times of Shawn Carter nigga Volume 2
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Y'all niggas get ready *hook overlaps*
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[Hook]
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I flow for those throwed out all my niggas
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locked down in a 10 by 4 controllin' the house
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we livin' hard knocks we don't take over
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we borrow blocks burn 'em down & you
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can have it back daddy I'd rather that
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I flow for chicks wishin' they didn't have
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to strip to pay tuition I see ya vision mama
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I put my money on the long shots
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all my ballers that's born to clock
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Noone would be on top whether I perform or not
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I went from lukewarm to hot
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sleepin' off of ? & cots to king size
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bring machines to breathe fire
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decieve pies let the thang between my eyes analyze
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life's ills then I put it down type real
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I'm tight grill with the phony ...raappers
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y'all might feel we homies
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I'm like still "Y'all don't know me shit."
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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'
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Feel me *hook overlaps*
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[Hook]
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I don't know how to sleep I gotta eat stay on my toes
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got a lot of beef so logically I prey on my foes
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Hustle still inside of me the far'hest progress
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you'd be hard pressed to find another rapper
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hot as me I gave you prophecy on my first joint
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but ya all lamed out didn't really appreciate it
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'til the second one came out so I strech the game out
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X'd your name out put Jigga on top
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and dropped albums nonstop for ya nigga
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[Hook]
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repeat til end
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Hard Knock Life
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| jay z |
