Hard Knock Life(Ghetto Anthem)-Hip Hop Masters

[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) - Hip Hop Masters [00:02.43]Check the bassline out uh-huh [00:05.01] [00:07.42]Jigga uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh [00:10.81] [00:11.87]It's the hard knock life for us [00:14.75]It's the hard knock life for us [00:18.01]Steada treated we get tricked [00:21.03]Steada kisses we get kicked [00:23.99]It's the hard knock life [00:25.70]From standin on the corners boppin [00:26.57]To drivin some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen [00:30.27]For droppin some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard [00:33.25]From the d**e spot with the smoke Glock [00:35.08]Fleein the murder scene you know me well [00:37.29]From nightmares of a lonely cell my only hell [00:40.39]But since when y'all niggaz know me to fail F**k naw [00:43.47]Where all my niggaz with the rubber grips bust shots [00:46.67]And if you with me mom I rub on your tits and what-not [00:49.66]I'm from the school of the hard knocks we must not [00:52.85]Let outsiders violate our blocks and my plot [00:55.85]Let's stick up the world and split it fifty/fifty uh-huh [00:58.93]Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy uh-huh [01:01.99]And sip the Cris' and get pissy-pissy [01:04.32]Flow infinitely like the memory of my ni**a Biggie baby [01:08.41]You know it's hell when I come through [01:10.47]The life and times of Shawn Carter [01:12.41]Ni**a Volume 2 y'all niggaz get ready [01:14.34]It's the hard knock life for us [01:16.79]It's the hard knock life for us [01:19.87]Steada treated we get tricked [01:23.07]Steada kisses we get kicked [01:26.11]It's the hard knock life [01:28.12]I flow for those 'dro'ed out; all my niggaz [01:30.43]Locked down in the ten by fo' controllin the house [01:33.04]We live in hard knocks we don't take over we borrow blocks [01:36.46]Burn em down and you can have it back daddy I'd rather that [01:39.85]I flow for chicks wishin they ain't have to strip to pay tuition [01:43.47]I see you vision mama I put my money on the longshots [01:47.09]All my ballers that's born to clock [01:49.63]Now I'ma be on top whether I perform or not [01:52.43]I went from lukewarm to hot; sleepin on futons and cots [01:56.31]To King Size dream machines the green fives [01:58.94]I've seen pies let the thing between my eyes analyze life's ills [02:02.26]Then I put it down type braile [02:04.73]I'm tight grill with the phony rappers y'all might feel we homies [02:08.35]I'm like still y'all don't know me sh*t [02:10.66]I'm tight grill when my situation ain't improvin [02:13.33]I'm tryin to murder everything movin feel me [02:16.17]It's the hard knock life for us [02:18.82]It's the hard knock life for us [02:22.08]Steada treated we get tricked [02:25.20]Steada kisses we get kicked [02:28.28]It's the hard knock life for us [02:31.36]It's the hard knock life for us [02:34.49]Steada treated we get tricked [02:37.64]Steada kisses we get kicked [02:40.47]It's the hard knock life [02:41.73]I don't how to sleep I gotta eat stay on my toes [02:44.92]Gotta a lot of beef so logically I prey on my foes [02:47.87]Hustling's still inside of me and as far as progress [02:50.95]You'd be hard-pressed to find another rapper hot as me [02:54.05]I gave you prophecy on my first joint and y'all lamed out [02:57.27]Didn't really appreciate it til the second one came out [03:00.31]So I stretched the game out X'ed your name out [03:02.89]Put Jigga on top and drop albums non-stop for ya nigguh [03:06.22]It's the hard knock life for us [03:08.59]It's the hard knock life for us [03:11.78]Steada treated we get tricked [03:14.89]Steada kisses we get kicked [03:17.95]It's the hard knock life for us [03:21.14]It's the hard knock life for us [03:24.28]Steada treated we get tricked [03:27.36]Steada kisses we get kicked [03:30.39]It's the hard knock life [03:32.59] [03:43.28]It's the hard knock life [03:44.84] [03:55.65]It's the hard knock life