Hard Knock Life (MTV Unplugged)

[Intro]

Bounce

Left and right

Left and right

Come on

Uh

Uh

Che

Uhuh

Yeah keep it best man

Nah nah you don't sing yet man

Sing now!

[Hook: Jaguar Wright (Jay Z)]

It's the hard knock life for us

It's the hard knock life for us!

Instead of treated, we get tricked

Instead of kisses, we get kicked

It's the hard knock life!

(I love you)

[Verse 1]

From standing on the corners boppin'

To driving some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen

For dropping some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard

From the dope spot, with the smoke Glock fleeing the murder scene

You know me well...

From nightmares of a lonely cell, my only hell

But since when y'all know me to fail? Nuh uh

Where all my brother with the rubber grips, bust shots

And if you with me mama rub on your hips, 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

And sip the Cris' and get pissy-pissy

Flow infinitely like the memory of the homie Biggie, baby!

You know it's hell when I come through

The life and times of Shawn Carter, y'all Volume 2, y'all niggas get ready

Sing!

[Hook: Jaguar Wright (Jay Z)]

It's the hard knock life for us

It's the hard knock life for us!

(I can't hear y'all)

Instead of treated, we get tricked

Instead of kisses, we get kicked

It's the hard knock life!