Although Hov had prior successes with “Dead Presidents” and “Can’t Knock the Hustle,” “Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)” widely became accepted as the song that erupted Jay-Z into ...

The iconic songbook includes showtime standards like “It’s the Hard-Knock Life” and “Tomorrow.” “[‘Hard-Knock Life’] is a banger, it’s the rage of the trapped, the anthem of the ...

then was behind the board for such rap classics such as Jay-Z’s Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem) and Stan by Eminem . He earned his professional name by culling bits from obscure 45 singles His ...