Joey Bada$$ (feat. CJ Fly) - Hardknock (prod. Lewis Parker) (Official Video)

This when I knew I was going up

Still the best Joey verses I’ve ever heard 🤔

thank you God for pro era

2023 stand up❤

damn bro...masterpiece

Here in 23’

💯💯💯 said it all g respect

Legendary verses

As a white kid from the UK, stumbling upon this Joey Bada$$ track after being the biggest Nas, Wu fan.. was the was my greatest discovery yet, holy shit this kid!

nah 17 year old Joey was crazy!!!

way ahead of his time, under appreciated summer knights and 1999

Still here 11 years later

Damn bro forever my favorite rapper of the early 2010’s you should’ve been one of the greatest, but they didn’t see it like the rest of us bro

That last verse was absolutely immaculate

💙🤍🧡🫶🏿👑

Joey's second verse remains unmatched.

this side of CJ hurts so good

Apparel on point

I grew up with this mixtape and I don't think we were able to comprehend what we were witnessing. Joey's second verse is High School Derrick Henry, a seasoned vet among children. Even to this day I'm not sure Joey will ever be able to top what he did on this track. HOF caliber

Listening to joey's final verse for the first time is a transcendent experience.

Check it, word word
What's the word word
Yeah, check!

{Verse 1: Joey Bada$$}
Just got word from my mans on the island
He said he needed guidance
Niggas on the streets is wilding, he look to God but can't find him
So he demand silence from the glaring sirens
The sympathy symphony, only thing playing is the banned violence
No lying niggas just won't let go the iron
They wanna burn your molecules until you let go ions
Treat beef like they let go lions
So don't eye 'em they get the wrong message, wrong methods
Put you on that long stretcher
Too much pressure, God bless ya when the semi wet'cha
They told me, "More dress-up"—I'm giving too many lectures
And I'm putting in too many effort in my nouns and verbs
Like "they gon' catch up" fuck what you must heard!
But I done puffed enough herb
To be listening to young birds and dumb nerds
I got enough shit on my mind
So I don't need to be stressing and shine, it's fine

{Hook: Joey Bada$$}
One day I'm tryna have a wife and kids
So I just can't live my life like this
And I ain't tryna learn what lifeless is
So I just can't live my life like this
I want the gold chains and diamond rings
But I just can't live my life like this
And sometimes I just wanna light this spliff
But I just can't live my life like this

{Verse 2: CJ Fly}
Got a collect call from up top
My cousin called me and whatnot
The motto never changed it’s still fuck cops
We went from having lunch in our lunchbox
Our lungs was hot whenever we'd puff pot
We'd touch blocks and end up having to duck shots
But fuck dot, ain’t trying live that life no more
My mind corrupted but my heart is still pure
Gotta be brave can’t be afraid
Braids and waves never matter when you catch the fade
Trapped in a maze and your faith is your only escape
Fuck a priest’s opinion, knock the hinges off of Heaven’s gates
Trying to share my cells with my mate, not share a cell with mates
Wrecking shit with my recklessness
The L get lit that’s when I start second guessing shit
Thinking 'bout Ty and then I reminisce
What you thought you niggas could’ve fuck me over
Never nigga guess again
I’m street so cross me like pedestrians
And that’s gon' be the end of it, straight revoking your membership

{Hook: CJ Fly}
One day I'm tryna have a wife and kids
So I just can't live my life like this
And I ain't tryna learn what lifeless is
So I just can't live my life like this
I want the gold chains and diamond rings
But I just can't live my life like this
And sometimes I just wanna light this spliff
But I just can't live my life like this

{Verse 3: Joey Bada$$}
Niggas wanna know what I’m about—I’m 'bout blowin' loud
On the block sporty, Glock 40 in a politician mouth
I take the competition out commission with my composition
Who the kid spitting behind the bars like a con position
Gotta give ‘em time to listen, they’ll soon bump to it
They’ll like me, I kick it like Nike they’ll soon adjust to it
But if you hate I know you must do it
I ain’t mad at you I keep my attitude on "screw it a million bucks should do it"
I’m out for presidents to represent me
Yo chick keep messaging me, who the bestest MC? They be mentioning me
Too hot, I be molesting the beat, fuck math
Teachers should teach us to get Smith & Wesson’s off of the street
So first class be a lesson for me
Fuck what you teaching for some regents, I'm flying over regions
Reaching, all time highs where Jesus can’t reach us
Censor me and get the recipe to make you rest in peace
This is for my niggas, killers, hundred dollar billers
On the block in the rock spot, Glock cocked watching out for cops
All about their cheddar, young guns know nothing that’s better
Like fuck a prison letter, those Beretta’s led us to the lettuce
Relish fetishes, menaces want the senator’s percentages
If you ain't prejudice you still a nemesis
Smoking on the Clematis, get open like a present is
Now your presence is on the premises for them presidents
My city be the genesis for where they think the terror is
They linking terrorists from the Stuy to Lincoln Terraces
Stay on that reckless shit, they leave you left for the dead
Kids don’t play they’ll erase your head in a race for the bread
Children on the corners slinging some regs, popping some meds
Jakes be so deep in cover they be chasing the feds
I be back stage gripping haze breaking my leg
My folks was making the best when they was naked in bed, muthafucka

{Hook: Joey BadA$$}
One day I'm tryna have a wife and kids
So I just can't live my life like this
And I ain't tryna learn what lifeless is
So I just can't live my life like this
I want the gold chains and diamond rings
But I just can't live my life like this
And sometimes I just wanna light this spliff
But I just can't live my life like this

Fire , Year 2023 , Beatiful song

CJ Fly is actually Donovan Mitchell

Joey Badass was giving GOD BARS on this 💯

Legendary

🐐

Yea that last verse was fucking insane

Dos he dissed all the music industry and the Matrix imposed by the system at this age? Or Nah?

Essa daqui também foi umas das primeiras que escutei, na verdade esse álbum seja o primeiro que escutei mais músicas nas minhas primeiras audições de Rap. ❤

Wow 11 years ago. Where’s time going? This generation didn’t deserve Joey.

Still cant comprehend that Joey was 17 when 1999 got dropped.

11 years later and im still coming back 🐐

Hot up on the block ..

Better be nice hoe

Still vibing in 2023

Joey's best verse ever. He will never top that.

This is one of the best songs ever. Joey was going crazy!

Fire

I remember seeing this video for the first time on Mtv2 in May 2012. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing from a young kid at that time. I’m 32 now, and I still come back to this video. That 1999 mixtape was incredible, especially for the time it was released. CJ’s verse was fire and Joey’s last verse is his best ever.

Omg he's was Only 17😮😮

Hardknocklife

Young joey

Throw bac , I remember when I first seen this video 🔥🔥🔥

Still Here 💫💫🥶

Joey I hate my life but I have to keep pushing forward brother

I was 17 when this came out, and it still resonates with me every day

No I am this generation n it really isn't wasted he's sick just not enough people know about him. That's a shame.

That last verse from joey gives me chills😩😩😩

I remember seeing this on MTV and I automatically knew he was a living legend. 17!!!!!! SHEEESH

Joey second verse almost like Prodigy's second verse on Hell In Earth(Front Lines)