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[Jay-Z]
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Check the bassline out, uh-huh
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Jigga (bounce wit it), uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh, yeahh
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Let it bump though
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["Annie" sample]
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It's the hard knock life (uh-huh) 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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[Jay-Z]
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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 dope spot, with the smoke Glock
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fleein the murder scene, you know me well
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from nightmares of a lonely cell, my only hell
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But since when y'all niggaz know me to fail? Fuck naw
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Where all my niggaz with the rubber grips, bust shots
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And if you with me mom I rub on your tits, 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, uh-huh
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Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy, uh-huh
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And sip the Cris' and 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 and times of Shawn Carter
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nigga Volume 2, y'all niggaz get ready
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["Annie" sample]
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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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[Jay-Z]
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I flow for those 'dro'ed out; all my niggaz
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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 wishin, 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 analyze life's ills
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Then I put it down type braile
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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, 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, feel me?!
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["Annie" sample]
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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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[Jay-Z]
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I don't 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, til 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, and drop albums non-stop for ya, nigguh!
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["Annie" sample]
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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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.. It's the hard knock life!!
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.. It's the hard knock life!!
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Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)
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| jay z |
