Check the out, uh-huh Jigga (bounce wit it), uh-huh uh-huh, yeahh Let it bump
["Annie" It's the hard knock (uh-huh) for us the hard knock life, for us!! Steada treated, we get Steada kisses, we get It's the hard life!!
From on the corners boppin to some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen For droppin of the hottest verses rap has ever heard From the dope spot, the smoke Glock fleein the scene, you know me well nightmares of a lonely cell, my only hell But when y'all niggaz know me to fail? Fuck naw Where all my niggaz the rubber grips, bust shots And if you with me mom I rub on tits, and what-not I'm from the school of the knocks, we must not let outsiders our blocks, and my plot let's stick up the and split it fifty/fifty, uh-huh take the dough and stay real jiggy, uh-huh And sip the Cris' and get Flow like the memory of my nigga Biggie, baby! You know it's when I come through The life and times of Shawn nigga Volume 2, y'all get ready
["Annie" the hard knock life, for us It's the hard life, for us!! Steada treated, we get kisses, we get kicked It's the knock life!!
I flow for those 'dro'ed all my niggaz locked in the ten by fo', controllin the house We live in hard knocks, we don't take over we blocks em down and you can have it back daddy, I'd rather that I for chicks wishin, they ain't have to strip to pay tuition I see you vision mama, I put my money on the All my ballers that's to clock Now be on top whether I perform or not I went lukewarm to hot; sleepin on futons and cots to King Size, dream machines, the fives I've seen pies let the thing my eyes analyze life's ills Then I put it type braile I'm grill with the phony, rappers y'all might feel we homies I'm still, y'all don't know me, shit! I'm tight grill when my ain't improvin I'm tryin to murder everything movin, me?!
["Annie" It's the knock life, for us the hard knock life, for us!! Steada treated, we get kisses, we get kicked It's the hard life, for us the hard knock life, for us!! Steada treated, we get Steada kisses, we get It's the hard life!!
I how to sleep, I gotta eat, stay on my toes 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 find another hot as me I gave you on my first joint, and y'all lamed out Didn't really appreciate it, til the one came out So I stretched the out, X'ed your name out Put Jigga on top, and drop albums for ya, nigguh!
["Annie" It's the knock life, for us the hard knock life, for us!! Steada treated, we get Steada kisses, we get It's the knock life, for us It's the knock life, for us!! Steada treated, we get Steada kisses, we get the hard knock life!! .. It's the hard life!! .. the hard knock life!!