Jay-Z - Hard Knock Life

                    Jay-Z:
                    Take the baseline out, uh huh
                    Jigga uh huh uh huh uh huh
                    Let it bump though

                    Annie Sample: 
                    It's the hard knock life for us (uh-huh)
                    It's the hard knock life for us
                    Steada treated, we get tricked
                    Steada kisses, we get kicked
                    It's the hard knock life!!

                    Verse 1:
                    From standing on the corners boppin
                    To driving some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen
                    To dropping some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard
                    From the dope spot, where the smoke block
                    Fleeing the murder scene, you know me well
                    From nightmares of a lonely cell, my only hell
                    But since when ya'll niggas know me to bail? Fuck Naw
                    Where all my niggas with the rubber grips, Bust shots
                    And if you with me ma I rubbing your tits, and what not
                    I'm from the school of the hard knocks, we must not
                    Let outsiders violate our blocks, and my plot
                    Let's stick up the world and split it 50-50, uh huh
                    Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy, uh huh
                    Let's sip the Cris and get pissy pissy
                    Flow infinently like the memory of my nigga Biggie, baby! 
                    You know it's hell when I come through
                    The life and times of Shawn Carter nigga Volume 2, ya'll niggas get ready

                    Annie Sample: 
                    It's the hard knock life for us 
                    It's the hard knock life for us
                    Steada treated, we get tricked
                    Steada kisses, we get kicked
                    It's the hard knock life!!

                    Verse 2:
                    I flow for those droned out
                    All my niggas locked down in the 10 by 4 controlling the house
                    We live in hard knocks we don't take over we borrow blocks
                    Burn 'em down and you can have 'em back daddy, I'd rather that
                    I flow for chicks wishing they ain't have to strip to pay tuition
                    I see you vision mama, I put my money on the longshots
                    All my ballers that born to glock
                    Now I'ma be on top whether I perform or not
                    I went from lukewarm to hot
                    Sleeping on foutons and cots, the king size, dream machines, the green fives
                    I've seen pies let the thing between my eyes analyze life's ills
                    Then I put it down tight grill
                    I'm tight grill with the phony rappers you might feel we homeys
                    I'm like still you don't know me, shit
                    I'm tight grill when my situation ain't improving
                    I'm trying to murder everything moving, Feel Me!!

                    Annie Sample: 
                    It's the hard knock life for us 
                    It's the hard knock life for us
                    Steada treated, we get tricked
                    Steada kisses, we get kicked
                    It's the hard knock life for us 
                    It's the hard knock life for us
                    Steada treated, we get tricked
                    Steada kisses, we get kicked
                    It's the hard knock life!! 

                    Verse 3:
                    I don't how to sleep, I gotta eat, stay on my toes
                    Gotta a lot of beef so logically I prey on my foes
                    Hustlin still inside of me and as far as progress
                    You be hardpressed to find another rapper hot as me
                    I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and ya'll lamed out
                    Didn't really appreciate it till the second one came out
                    So I stretched the game out, X'ed your name out
                    Put Jigga on top, and drop albums non-stop for ya nigga

                    Annie Sample: 
                    It's the hard knock life for us 
                    It's the hard knock life for us
                    Steada treated, we get tricked
                    Steada kisses, we get kicked
                    It's the hard knock life for us 
                    It's the hard knock life for us
                    Steada treated, we get tricked
                    Steada kisses, we get kicked
                    It's the hard knock life!!

                    It's the hard knock life!!

                    It's the hard knock life!!