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