Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)-Graham Blvd

[ti:Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)] [ar:Hip Hop Masters] [al:Essential Hip Hop Classics - The Top 30 Best Ever HipHop Hits Of All Time !] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) - Graham Blvd. [00:04.11]Check the bassline out uh-huh [00:08.22]Jigga uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh [00:12.33]It's the hard knock life for us [00:15.20]It's the hard knock life for us [00:18.47]Steada treated we get tricked [00:21.48]Steada kisses we get kicked [00:24.45]It's the hard knock life [00:26.16]From standin on the corners boppin [00:27.03]To drivin some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen [00:30.73]For droppin some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard [00:33.71]From the d**e spot with the smoke Glock [00:35.54]Fleein the murder scene you know me well [00:37.75]From nightmares of a lonely cell my only hell [00:40.85]But since when y'all niggaz know me to fail F**k naw [00:43.93]Where all my niggaz with the rubber grips bust shots [00:47.12]And if you with me mom I rub on your tits and what-not [00:50.12]I'm from the school of the hard knocks we must not [00:53.31]Let outsiders violate our blocks and my plot [00:56.31]Let's stick up the world and split it fifty/fifty uh-huh [00:59.39]Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy uh-huh [01:02.45]And sip the Cris' and get pissy-pissy [01:04.78]Flow infinitely like the memory of my ni**a Biggie baby [01:08.87]You know it's hell when I come through [01:10.93]The life and times of Shawn Carter [01:12.87]Ni**a Volume 2 y'all niggaz get ready [01:14.80]It's the hard knock life for us [01:17.25]It's the hard knock life for us [01:20.33]Steada treated we get tricked [01:23.53]Steada kisses we get kicked [01:26.57]It's the hard knock life [01:28.57]I flow for those 'dro'ed out; all my niggaz [01:30.89]Locked down in the ten by fo' controllin the house [01:33.50]We live in hard knocks we don't take over we borrow blocks [01:36.92]Burn em down and you can have it back daddy I'd rather that [01:40.31]I flow for chicks wishin they ain't have to strip to pay tuition [01:43.93]I see you vision mama I put my money on the longshots [01:47.55]All my ballers that's born to clock [01:50.09]Now I'ma be on top whether I perform or not [01:52.89]I went from lukewarm to hot; sleepin on futons and cots [01:56.77]To King Size dream machines the green fives [01:59.40]I've seen pies let the thing between my eyes analyze life's ills [02:02.72]Then I put it down type braile [02:05.19]I'm tight grill with the phony rappers y'all might feel we homies [02:08.81]I'm like still y'all don't know me sh*t [02:11.12]I'm tight grill when my situation ain't improvin [02:13.79]I'm tryin to murder everything movin feel me [02:16.62]It's the hard knock life for us [02:19.28]It's the hard knock life for us [02:22.54]Steada treated we get tricked [02:25.66]Steada kisses we get kicked [02:28.74]It's the hard knock life for us [02:31.81]It's the hard knock life for us [02:34.95]Steada treated we get tricked [02:38.10]Steada kisses we get kicked [02:40.92]It's the hard knock life [02:42.19]I don't how to sleep I gotta eat stay on my toes [02:45.38]Gotta a lot of beef so logically I prey on my foes [02:48.33]Hustling's still inside of me and as far as progress [02:51.41]You'd be hard-pressed to find another rapper hot as me [02:54.50]I gave you prophecy on my first joint and y'all lamed out [02:57.72]Didn't really appreciate it til the second one came out [03:00.77]So I stretched the game out X'ed your name out [03:03.35]Put Jigga on top and drop albums non-stop for ya nigguh [03:06.68]It's the hard knock life for us [03:09.05]It's the hard knock life for us [03:12.24]Steada treated we get tricked [03:15.35]Steada kisses we get kicked [03:18.41]It's the hard knock life for us [03:21.60]It's the hard knock life for us [03:24.74]Steada treated we get tricked [03:27.82]Steada kisses we get kicked [03:30.85]It's the hard knock life [03:33.05] [03:43.73]It's the hard knock life [03:45.30] [03:56.11]It's the hard knock life