Hard Knocks (Live)

Oh yeah

Didn't take nothing that I didn't need

Cause they didn't offer classes in what I want to be

They didn't offer manhood responsibility

Had to learn it the hard way earn my degree in the streets

Graduated from hard knocks I got my education

And hard knocks cared a little about the situation

Hard knocks got the bumps and the bruises to prove it

Hard knocks

Can't bust through the ceiling without feeling the burn

And I ain't got nothing that I didn't earn

Chasing that dollar still hitting the books

still hitting the books)

Studying Donnie and Stevie I learn to sail the hooks

Talk about those hard knocks got the bumps and the bruises to prove it

Hard knocks got the rhyme and the reason to choose it

Hard knocks out on the streets

Hard knocks

Had a real good teacher named Mr Life Mr Life)

Didn't teach no chemistry but he taught me how to fight

taught me how to fight)

Didn't teach biology

I learned from the bees

Stay close to your friends closer to your enemies

That's right

Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah that's right

Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah that's right

Oh that's Hard knocks yeah yeah yeah yeah

Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah that's right

Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah so right

Oh Hard knocks

Got the bumps and the bruises to prove it

Hard knocks getting in and out of situations

Hard knocks I talk streets Hard knocks

Feeling at my soul

From my hard knocks

We deep inside no

Talk about oh no

Deep my heart