Hard Knock Life

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 form 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 Crys and get pissy pissy
Flow imminently 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

It's the hard knock life for us
It's the hard knock life for us
'Stead of treated, we get tricked
'Stead of kisses, we get kicked
It's the hard knock life

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 bomb 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's born to glock
Now I'ma be on top whether I perform or not

I went from lukewarm to hot
Sleeping on guitars and cots, the king size, dream machine to grief
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 th

Dr. Evil
Miscellaneous
Hard Knock Life (Dr. Evil Remix)
Take the baseline out... no? You don't have to
Bounce wit it!

["Annie" sample] + (Dr. Evil)
It's the hard knock life, for us
It's the hard knock life (yeahhhh) for us!!
Steada treated, we get tricked
Steada kisses, we get kicked
It's the hard knock life!!

I don't know how to be, no crib on MTV, God only knows
Got my Mini-Me in the GP - see how it goes
Evil's all that I see; you ask me my name?
D to the Rizzo, E to the Vizzo, I to the Lizzo
I'm a crazy motherf... ("It's a hard knock life!")
Y'all knew that - Austin caught me in the first act
Like it's all backwards, what's with that?
So I'll make a prophecy; from the dogs, to the Mini-Me
Gimme an Escalade, a 2-way, bling bling on eBay
Domino motherf...

["Annie" sample] + (Dr. Evil)
It's the hard knock life (yeahhhh) for us
It's the hard knock life, for us!! (Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it!)
Steada treated, we get tricked (Uh-huh)
Steada kisses, we get kicked (It's for all my homies in Brouge)
It's the hard knock life, for us (uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh)
It's the hard knock life, for us!!
Steada treated, we get tricked (Ahhh, Cristal, my Moto)
Steada kisses, we get kicked (A couple of be-hotches, why not?)
It's the hard knock life