It's a hard knock life for us, it's a hard knock life for us, statics read it, we can't quit, statics read it, we can't quit, it's a hard knock life. From standing on the corners bopping, to driving some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen, from dropping some of the hottest verses rappers ever heard, from the dope spot with the smoke lock clinging to murder scene. You know me well from nightmares of a lonely cell, my only hell was since when y'all niggas know me to fail. *** naw, we all my niggas with the rubber grips, for shots, and if you with me mama 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, to stick up the world and split it 50-50, uh-huh, is take the dough and stay real jiggy, uh-huh, and sip the crisps and get pissy-pissy, flow infinitely like the memory of my nigga Biggie, baby, you know it's hell when I come through, the life and times of Sean Carter, nigga, volume 2, y'all niggas be ready. It's a hard knock life for us, it's a hard knock life for us, statics read it, we can't quit, statics read it, we can't quit, it's a hard knock life. I flow for those drolled out, all my niggas locked down in a ten by four, controlling our house, we live in hard knocks, we don't take over, we ball blocks, burn them down and you can have it back daddy, I'd rather that, I flow for chicks wishing, they ain't have to strip to pay tuition, I see your vision mama, I put my money on the long shots, on my ballers, that's born to clock, no one will be on top, whether I perform or not, I went from lukewarm to hot, sleeping on futons and cots, the king size, green machines to green fives, the scene 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, y'all might feel we homies, I'm like still, y'all don't know me, ***, I'm tight grill, when my situation ain't improving, I'm trying to murder everything moving, feel me, it's a hard knock life for us, it's a hard knock life for us, statutory that we get tricked, statically says we get kicked, it's a hard knock life for us, it's a hard knock life for us, statutory that we get tricked, statically says we get kicked, it's a hard knock life for us, I don't know how to sleep, I gotta eat, stay on my toes, got a lot of beef, so logically, I pray on my foes, hustlers still inside of me, and as far as progress, you be hard pressed, to find another rapper hot as me, I gave you prophecy on my first joint, and y'all all lamed out, didn't really appreciate it, till the second one came out, so I stretched the game out, etched your name out, put Jigga on top, and drop albums nonstop for y'all, nigga, it's a hard knock life for us, it's a hard knock life for us, statutory that we get tricked, statically says we get kicked, it's a hard knock life for us, it's a hard knock life for us, it's a hard knock life for us, it's a hard knock life for us, it's a hard knock life, it's a hard knock life, it's a hard knock life