(spoken)
Take the base line out!
No?
You don't have to.
Bounce wit it!

(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!)

Yeah!

(sung)

I didn't know how to be
No crib on MTV
God only knows
I got my mini-me in the gp

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 mother f****
ya'll knew that
Austin caught me in the first act
it's all backwards
what's with that?

So I'll make a prophecy
From the dawgs to the mini-me
Give me an Escalade,
two-way,
Bling-Bling on e-bay
damn it i'm a motha f*****

(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!)

Yeah!
Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!
Uh huh
This is for all my homies in brouge
Uh huh uh huh uh huh

Ah Cristol,
My moto,
a couple of bihatches,
Why not?

I gotta bust a move
drop and bust a groove
feelin' fine
got an evil crew,
goldmember too
lick my nine
'till then I'll
__ on my __
and spit in your f****** guts off
for shizzle my nizzle ya'll
this is a shout-out to hova
god mc
you all know him, that's Jay-Z!
I met him!
Well I saw him in a resturaunt once.

Stick that in your blunt and smoke it!
Yeah, I said blunt!