Check the bassline out uh-huh 调大声音 Jigga (bounce wit it) uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh yeahh Jigga 跟着节奏一起弹跳 Let it bump though 让这节奏继续 It's the hard knock life (uh-huh) for us 这就是我们充满艰辛的生活 It's the hard knock life for us 这就是条艰辛的人生路 Steada treated we get tricked 从来没有被重视过 我们总是被欺骗 Steada kisses we get kicked 从来没被亲吻过 我们总是被痛扁 It's the hard knock life 这就是艰辛的生活 From standin on the corners boppin 我从一个曾在街头贩毒的家伙 To drivin some of the hottest cars New York has ever seen 变成了现在的富翁 还开着纽约最拉风的跑车 For droppin some of the hottest verses rap has ever heard 因为我写出了历史上最棒的说唱歌曲 From the d**e spot with the smoke Glock 我曾在街头卖** 手中还拿着枪 Fleein the murder scene you know me well 刚刚才逃离**现场 你们都明白 From nightmares of a lonely cell my only hell 经常会梦见自己被关进一个空空的牢房 那里才是我的地狱 But since when y'all niggaz know me to fail F**k naw 但是你们这些家伙什么时候见过我失败了 从来没有 Where all my niggaz with the rubber grips bust shots 我那些走路都拿着枪的兄弟们 你们在哪啊 快开枪 And if you with me mom I rub on your tits and what-not 姑娘 如果你愿意跟着我 那就让我好好享受一下 I'm from the school of the hard knocks we must not 我毕业于那里 Let outsiders violate our blocks and my plot 绝对不能让外面的家伙进入我们的街区 Let's stick up the world and split it fifty/fifty uh-huh 让我们把这个世界给抢了吧 五五分成 Let's take the dough and stay real jiggy uh-huh 兄弟们都努力挣钱 我们要光彩照人 And sip the Cris' and get pissy-pissy 喝着酒 微醉的感觉真是美 Flow infinitely like the memory of my ni**a Biggie baby 我的说唱不会停下 就像我的兄弟Biggie一样永垂不朽 You know it's hell when I come through 你们知道我曾经历地狱般的痛苦 The life and times of Shawn Carter 这就是我Shawn Carter的人生和生活 Ni**a Volume 2 y'all niggaz get ready 兄弟们准备好了 现在播放专辑 It's the hard knock life for us 这是我们艰辛的生活 It's the hard knock life for us 这就是条艰辛人生路 Steada treated we get tricked 从来没有被重视过 我们总是被欺骗 Steada kisses we get kicked 从来没被亲吻过 我们总是被痛扁 It's the hard knock life 这就是艰辛的生活 I flow for those 'dro'ed out; all my niggaz 我为那些抽着烟的兄弟们说唱 Locked down in the ten by fo' controllin the house 为那些被关在监狱 却还在外面做生意的兄弟们说唱 We live in hard knocks we don't take over we borrow blocks 我们的生活很艰辛 我们无法拥有 所以只能在街区混混 Burn em down and you can have it back daddy I'd rather that 就算你把一切烧毁 我们还会再回来的 I flow for chicks wishin they ain't have to strip to pay tuition 我愿意为了脱衣舞女说唱 她们也许是为了交学费 I see you vision mama I put my money on the longshots 我明白你们的艰辛 所以我愿意花钱冒个险 All my ballers that's born to clock 我的那些兄弟们天生就是赚钱的料 Now I'ma be on top whether I perform or not 我现在都已经在顶端了 演不演出已经无所谓了 I went from lukewarm to hot; sleepin on futons and cots 我从一个普通人做到大明星 我过去只能睡榻榻米 To King Size dream machines the green fives 现在却是超级大床 那简直就是造梦机器 开的车是绿色的5系 I've seen pies let the thing between my eyes analyze life's ills 我见过太多弱者 让我来研究一下这个混乱的世界 Then I put it down type braile 我写下的歌词就像盲文 I'm tight grill with the phony rappers y'all might feel we homies