[ti:Hard Knock Life]
[ar:Jay-Z]
[al:VOL.2]
[00:00.00]Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life(VOL.2)
[00:02.32]Check the bassline out, uh-huh
[00:06.54]Jigga (bounce wit it), uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh, yeahh
[00:11.35]Let it bump though
[00:11.89]It's the hard knock life (uh-huh) for us
[00:14.60]It's the hard knock life, for us!!
[00:17.64]Steada treated, we get tricked
[00:20.90]Steada kisses, we get kicked
[00:23.90]It's the hard knock life!!
[00:25.64]From standin on the corners boppin
[00:27.71]to drivin some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen
[00:29.98]For droppin some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard
[00:33.26]From the dope spot, with the smoke Glock
[00:35.18]fleein the murder scene, you know me well
[00:37.16]from nightmares of a lonely cell, my only hell
[00:40.50]But since when y'all niggaz know me to fail? Fuck naw
[00:43.55]Where all my niggaz with the rubber grips, bust shots
[00:46.50]And if you with me mom I rub on your tits, and what-not
[00:49.82]I'm from the school of the hard knocks, we must not
[00:52.83]let outsiders violate our blocks, and my plot
[00:56.01]let's stick up the world and split it fifty/fifty, uh-huh
[00:58.94]Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy, uh-huh
[01:02.06]And sip the Cris' and get pissy-pissy
[01:04.52]Flow infinitely like the memory of my nigga Biggie, baby!
[01:08.47]You know it's hell when I come through
[01:10.76]The life and times of Shawn Carter
[01:12.50]nigga Volume 2, y'all niggaz get ready
[01:14.94]It's the hard knock life, for us
[01:16.84]It's the hard knock life, for us!!
[01:19.88]Steada treated, we get tricked
[01:23.29]Steada kisses, we get kicked
[01:26.19]It's the hard knock life!!
[01:28.06]I flow for those 'dro'ed out; all my niggaz
[01:30.33]locked down in the ten by fo', controllin the house
[01:33.20]We live in hard knocks, we don't take over we borrow blocks
[01:36.50]Burn em down and you can have it back daddy, I'd rather that
[01:39.76]I flow for chicks wi