Said I got the Said I got the city blues Yeah, light up the green, watch me up the room Watch me light up the mic, fat boy, be the Nigga live and learn, the streets or get burned Niggas take what you earn, they be as a perm Man I try to be slicker, try to be and quicker Try to be than just another broke ass nigga In this game of life, lose your in the game a life full of pain, make you remember my name From the home of the blues, I paid my dues hard to fill my shoes, imitators abuse I just love the music, my heart and my brain Couldn't live without it, that's man I'm man, from the bottom I came Niggas scratching for bread, up on the fame Humble niggas with game, yo' mouth up and listen Recognize, a blessing, thankful just to be living I got the City Blues Ooo, I feel it now The pimps introduced us to pimping And everybody we know to play in them streets Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I could it now The pimps introduced us to pimping (This is how put it down) Everybody we know used to play in streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man I had the Memphis City Jones through my bones Way, way back with A+ and gray phones Even further back when I was just around the yard Riding bikes and shit, and getting my legs scarred In the music city, Memphis Tenn, they turned me into My dad and a couple of my friends, they played And when we used to to school at 16 We shit like Bobby Womack and Al Green Hell, I knew of the old school shit from front to end I would to memorize, four fives at age 10 I from a city where R&B run deep And the blues was the music that the whole street It was only that we would take the torch and run wit it Be serious, but still a little fun wit it MJG, from a town runs real deep Ask B.B. King and Hayes on Beale Street I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps us to pimping And everybody we know used to in them streets Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the Memphis City Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to (This is how put it down) Everybody we know used to play in streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man Yeah, on that man, me and G was born and raised Commodores, O Jays, Frankie and Maze rolled down, no AC cause the gas low Bread at a minimum, but still we found a to go North to the South at my house, chiefing out Skipping school, what the Memphis City Blues 'bout Me and G and a whole of others Had a rocky road to travel to make the world love us 'Cause it's the Memphis City, to call it itty bitty be an understatement We got big ass, cash, and Big working and hurt, the pockets of big tippers dippers and big jails to hide niggas But we stayed out, hard times, we bout 'em step up talking that shit and I laid out 'em MJG rappin' the Tennie, you and I could feel it Pass me some of the I got the Memphis City Ooo, I could it now The pimps introduced us to pimping And everybody we know used to play in them Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I could it now The pimps introduced us to pimping (This is how put it down) And we know used to play in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man
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