Define Hard Knock Life Meaning

Jay-Z's "Hard Knock Life"
It's a hard knock life for us, it's a hard knock life for us, instead of treated, we get tricked, instead of kisses, we get kicked, it's a hard knock life

you think you got it bad? annie had a hard knock life, bitch.

I'm homeless, lost an eye, got shot, I'm addicted to drugs, and persistently tortured by God for all my sins. It's a hard knock life...

ask annie

its a hard knock life for us, its a hard knock life for us, steada treated, we get tricked, steada kisses, we get kicked....

Repeated throughout song in background:
"It's a hard knock life for us.
It's a hard knock life for us.
'Steada treated, we get tricked.
'Steada kisses, we get kicked.
It's a hard knock life."

The Rap:
"I didn't know how to be, no crib on MTV. God only knows. Got my mini-me in the GP, see how it goes. 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******,
y'all knew that. Austin caught me in the first act, it's all backwards, what's with that? So I'll make a prophesy from the dogs to the mini-me.
Gimme an escalay to two-way bling-bling on eBay. Domino, M***********.
Yeah. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. Uh-huh. It's for all my homies in Brouge. Uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh. Ah, crystal, mymoto, a couple 'o bee-hotches, why not?
I gotta bust-a-move, drop-in bust-a-groove, feelin' fine.
Got an evil crew, Goldmember too, lick my nine. 'Till the I'll *** on my ********* brains out ***** I'll call and spooge in your ****. That's all, foshizzlemynizzle, y'all.

Cost me £80 fucking quid to sort my dog out and my bums still well sore - its a hard knock life!

"It's a hard knock life for us!".

we live in hard knock

we livef in hard knocks