Check the bassline out, Jigga (bounce wit it), uh-huh uh-huh, yeahh Let it though
["Annie" It's the hard life (uh-huh) for us It's the hard life, for us!! Steada treated, we get kisses, we get kicked It's the knock life!!
From standin on the corners to drivin of the hottest cars New York has ever seen For droppin some of the verses rap has ever heard the dope spot, with the smoke Glock fleein the murder scene, you me well from nightmares of a lonely cell, my only But since y'all niggaz know me to fail? Fuck naw Where all my niggaz with the rubber grips, bust And if you with me mom I rub on your tits, and I'm from the school of the hard knocks, we not let outsiders our blocks, and my plot stick up the world and split it fifty/fifty, uh-huh Let's take the dough and stay jiggy, uh-huh And sip the and get pissy-pissy infinitely like the memory of my nigga Biggie, baby! You know it's hell when I through The life and of Shawn Carter nigga 2, y'all niggaz get ready
["Annie" the hard knock life, for us It's the knock life, for us!! Steada treated, we get Steada kisses, we get It's the knock life!!
I flow for those 'dro'ed all my niggaz locked down in the ten by fo', controllin the We live in hard knocks, we don't take over we borrow Burn em and you can have it back daddy, I'd rather that I flow for wishin, they ain't have to strip to pay tuition I see you mama, I put my money on the longshots All my that's born to clock Now I'ma be on top whether I or not I went from lukewarm to hot; sleepin on and cots to Size, dream machines, the green fives I've seen pies let the thing my eyes analyze life's ills Then I put it type braile I'm tight grill with the phony, rappers y'all feel we homies I'm like still, don't know me, shit! I'm tight grill when my situation improvin I'm tryin to murder everything movin, me?!
["Annie" the hard knock life, for us It's the hard life, for us!! Steada treated, we get Steada kisses, we get the hard knock life, for us It's the knock life, for us!! treated, we get tricked Steada kisses, we get the hard knock life!!
I don't how to sleep, I gotta eat, stay on my Gotta a lot of beef, so logically, I on my foes Hustling's still inside of me, and as far as you'd be hard-pressed, to another rapper hot as me I you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't appreciate it, til the second one came out So I stretched the out, X'ed your name out Put Jigga on top, and drop non-stop for ya, nigguh!
["Annie" It's the hard life, for us It's the knock life, for us!! Steada treated, we get kisses, we get kicked It's the knock life, for us the hard knock life, for us!! Steada treated, we get kisses, we get kicked It's the knock life!! .. the hard knock life!! .. It's the hard life!!