Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) - Sound-A-Like As Made Famous By Jay Z-Various Artists

[ti:Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) - Sound-A-Like As Made Famous By Jay Z] [ar:Various Artists] [al:As Made Famous By: Jay Z] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.34]Check the bassline out uh huh [00:05.68] [00:07.24]Jigga uh huh uh huh uh huh [00:10.53] [00:11.77]It's the hard knock life for us [00:14.71]It's the hard knock life for us [00:17.16] [00:17.78]Steada treated we get tricked [00:20.27] [00:20.84]Steada kisses we get kicked [00:23.34] [00:23.90]It's the hard knock life [00:25.09]From standin' on the corners boppin' [00:26.84]To drivin' some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen [00:29.85]For droppin' some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard [00:32.30] [00:32.80]From the d**e spot with the smoke glock [00:34.73]Fleein' the murder scene you know me well [00:36.95]From nightmares of a lonely cell my only hell [00:40.14]But since when y'all niggaz know me to fail F**k naw [00:42.92]Where all my niggaz with the rubber grips bust shots [00:45.62]And if you with me mom I rub on your tits and what not [00:48.93]I'm from the school of the hard knocks we must not [00:51.82]Let outsiders violate our blocks and my plot [00:54.95]Let's stick up the world and split it fifty-fifty [00:57.45]Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy [01:00.45]And sip the cris' and get pissy pissy [01:03.14] [01:03.88]Flow infinitely like the memory of my ni**a biggie baby [01:06.65] [01:07.22]You know it's hell when I come through [01:09.53]The life and times of Shawn Carter [01:10.74]Ni**a Volume 2 [01:11.98] [01:12.80]It's the hard knock life for us [01:15.04] [01:15.67]It's the hard knock life for us [01:18.08] [01:18.70]Steada treated we get tricked [01:21.76]Steada kisses we get kicked [01:24.58]It's the hard knock life [01:26.87]I flow for those 'dro'ed out all my niggaz [01:28.99]Locked down in the ten by fo' controllin' the house [01:31.56]We live in hard knocks we don't take over we borrow blocks [01:34.87]Burn 'em down and you can have it back daddy I'd rather that [01:38.06]I flow for chicks wishin' they ain't have to strip to pay tuition [01:41.44]I see you vision mama I put my money on the longshots [01:45.06]All my ballers that's born to clock [01:47.51]Now I'ma be on top whether I perform or not [01:50.45]I went from lukewarm to hot sleepin' on futons and cots [01:54.51]To king size dream machines the green fives [01:57.07]I've seen pies let the thing between my eyes analyze life's ills [02:00.51]Then I put it down type braille [02:02.82]I'm tight grill with the phony rappers y'all might feel we homies [02:06.96]I'm like still y'all don't know me [02:09.15]I'm tight grill when my situation ain't improvin' [02:11.40] [02:11.90]I'm tryin' to murder everything movin' feel me [02:14.46]It's the hard knock life for us [02:16.85]It's the hard knock life for us [02:19.04] [02:19.60]Steada treated we get tricked [02:22.23] [02:22.79]Steada kisses we get kicked [02:25.66]It's the hard knock life for us [02:28.23] [02:28.85]It's the hard knock life for us [02:31.29] [02:31.98]Steada treated we get tricked [02:34.85]Steada kisses we get kicked [02:37.85]It's the hard knock life [02:39.67]I don't know how to sleep I gotta eat stay on my toes [02:42.42]Gotta a lot of beef so logically I prey on my foes [02:45.23]Hustling's still inside of me and as far as progress [02:48.60]You'd be hard-pressed to find another rapper hot as me [02:51.10] [02:51.66]I gave you prophecy on my first joint and y'all lamed out [02:54.73]Didn't really appreciate it till the second one came out [02:57.73]So I stretched the game out x'ed your name out [03:00.16]Put jigga on top drop albums non-stop for ya ni**a [03:03.00]It's the hard knock life for us [03:04.87] [03:05.38]It's the hard knock life for us [03:07.87] [03:08.44]Steada treated we get tricked [03:11.50]Steada kisses we get kicked [03:14.06] [03:14.56]It's the hard knock life for us [03:17.50]It's the hard knock life for us [03:20.50]Steada treated we get tricked [03:23.63]Steada kisses we get kicked [03:26.23] [03:26.85]It's the hard knock life [03:28.10] [03:39.18]It's the hard knock life [03:40.43] [03:51.31]It's the hard knock life