Hardknock - Joey Bada$$/CJ FLY.mp3

[00:00.00]"Hardknock"
[00:22.06]Check it, word word
[00:24.42]What's the word word
[00:28.68]Yeah, check!
[00:34.70]Just got word from my mans on the island, he said he needed guidance
[00:38.06]****** on the streets is walling, he look to God but can't find him
[00:41.47]So he demand silence from the glaring sirens
[00:43.78]The sympathy symphony, only thing playing is the banned violence
[00:47.09]No lying ****** just won't let go the iron
[00:49.41]They wanna burn your molecules until you let go ions
[00:52.48]Treat beef like they let go lions
[00:54.64]So don't eye 'em they get the wrong message, wrong methods
[00:57.15]Put you on that long stretcher
[00:58.61]Too much pressure God bless ya when the semi wet'cha
[01:01.67]They told me "more dress-up" I'm giving too many lectures
[01:04.63]And I'm putting in too many effort in my nouns and verbs
[01:08.14]Like "they gon' catch up" **** what you must heard!
[01:10.25]But I done puffed enough herb
[01:12.91]To be listening to young birds and dumb nerds
[01:15.57]I got enough **** on my mind
[01:18.69]So I don't need to be stressing and shine, it's fine
[01:21.75]One day I'm tryna have a wife and kids
[01:24.41]So I just can't live my life like this
[01:26.82]And I ain't tryna learn what lifeless is
[01:30.17]So I just can't live my life like this
[01:33.35]I want the gold chains and diamond rings
[01:36.15]But I just can't live my life like this
[01:38.46]And sometimes I just wanna light this spliff
[01:41.78]But I just can't live my life like this
[01:44.14]Got a collect call from up top
[01:46.19]My cousin called me and what not
[01:48.05]The motto never changed it's still **** cops
[01:50.36]We went from having lunch in our lunchbox
[01:52.47]Our lungs was hot whenever we'd puff pot
[01:54.58]We'd touch blocks and end up having to duck shots
[01:56.98]But **** dot, ain't trying live that life no more
[01:59.24]My mind corrupted but my heart is still pure
[02:02.00]Gotta be brave can't be afraid
[02:03.20]Braids and waves never matter when you catch the fade
[02:05.61]Trapped in a maze and your faith is your only escape
[02:08.63]**** a priest's opinion, knock the hinges off of Heaven's gates
[02:11.70]Trying to share my cells with my mate, not share a cell with mates
[02:14.55]Wrecking **** with my recklessness
[02:16.60]The L get lit that's when I start second guessing ****
[02:20.37]Thinking 'bout Ty and then I reminisce
[02:22.82]What you thought you ****** could've **** me over
[02:24.79]Never ***** guess again
[02:26.19]I'm street so cross me like pedestrians
[02:28.90]And that's gon' be the end of it, straight revoking your membership
[02:32.31]One day I'm tryna have a wife and kids
[02:34.32]So I just can't live my life like this
[02:36.68]And I ain't tryna learn what lifeless is
[02:39.99]So I just can't live my life like this
[02:42.56]I want the gold chains and diamond rings
[02:46.11]But I just can't live my life like this
[02:48.48]And sometimes I just wanna light this spliff
[02:51.69]But I just can't live my life like this
[02:54.10]****** wanna know what I'm about, I'm bout blowing loud
[02:57.67]On the block sporty, Glock 40 in a politician mouth
[03:01.03]I take the competition out commission with my composition
[03:03.84]Who the kid spitting behind the bars like a con position
[03:06.90]Gotta give 'em time to listen, they'll soon bump to it
[03:10.80]They'll like me, I kick it like Nike they'll soon adjust to it
[03:13.10]But if you hate I know you must do it
[03:16.02]I ain't mad at you I keep my attitude on "screw it a million bucks should do it"
[03:19.99]I'm out for presidents to represent me
[03:21.94]Yo chick keep messaging me, who the bestest MC? They be mentioning me
[03:25.57]Too hot, I be molesting the beat, **** math
[03:28.52]Teachers should teach us to get Smith & Wesson's off of the street
[03:31.50]So first class be a lesson for me
[03:33.49]**** what you teaching for some regents, I'm flying over regions
[03:37.32]Reaching, all time highs where Jesus can't reach us
[03:39.96]Step to me and get the recipe to make you rest in peace
[03:43.11]This is for my ******, killers, hundred dollar billers
[03:45.73]On the block in the rock spot, Glock ****ed watching out for cops
[03:48.98]All about their cheddar, young guns know nothing that's better
[03:52.15]Like **** a prison letter, those Beretta's led us to the lettuce
[03:54.81]Relish fetishes, menaces want the senator's percentages
[03:58.12]If you ain't prejudice you still a nemesis
[04:00.27]Smoking on the Clematis, get open like a present is
[04:03.08]Now your presence is on the premises for them presidents
[04:06.25]My city be the genesis for where they think the terror is
[04:09.27]They linking terrorists from the Stuy then Lincoln Terraces
[04:12.24]Stay on that reckless ****, they leave you left for the dead
[04:15.29]Kids don't play they'll erase your head in a race for the bread
[04:17.55]Children on the corners slinging some regs, popping some meds
[04:20.76]Jakes be so deep in cover they be chasing the feds
[04:22.57]I be back stage gripping haze breaking my leg
[04:26.03]My folks was making the best when they was naked in bed, mutha****a
[04:30.45]One day I'm tryna have a wife and kids
[04:32.21]So I just can't live my life like this
[04:36.03]And I ain't tryna learn what lifeless is
[04:37.83]So I just can't live my life like this
[04:41.00]I want the gold chains and diamond rings
[04:43.86]But I just can't live my life like this
[04:46.72]And sometimes I just wanna light this spliff
[04:49.68]But I just can't live my life like this
[04:52.55]by og