Said I got the Said I got the Memphis 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 what you earn, they be slick as a perm Man I try to be slicker, try to be and quicker Try to be more than just broke ass nigga In this game of life, lose life in the game Take a life of pain, make you remember my name the home of the blues, thought I paid my dues It's hard to fill my shoes, 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, stumbled up on the niggas with game, shut yo' mouth up and listen Recognize, a blessing, thankful just to be living I got the Memphis City Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to And we know used to play 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 to play in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man I had the City Jones running through my bones Way, way back A+ beepers and gray phones Even further back when I was playing around the yard bikes and shit, falling and getting my legs scarred In the music city, Memphis Tenn, they me into this My dad and a of my friends, they played instruments And we used to roll to school at 16 We bumped like Bobby Womack and Al Green Hell, I most of the old school shit from front to end I would to memorize, four fives at age 10 I come from a city R&B run deep And the was the music that paved 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 that real deep Ask B.B. and Isaac Hayes on Beale Street I got the City Blues Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps us to pimping And everybody we know to play in them streets Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the City Blues Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood introduced us to pimping (This is how put it down) Everybody we used to play in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man Yeah, on pimping man, me and G was born and raised Commodores, O Jays, Frankie Beverly and rolled down, no AC cause the gas low Bread at a minimum, but still we a place to go North to the South at my house, chiefing out Skipping school, learning what the Memphis Blues 'bout Me and G and a whole of others Had a rocky to travel just to make the world love us 'Cause it's the City, really to call it itty bitty Would be an We got big ass, cash, and Big working and hurt, the pockets of big tippers Side dippers and big to hide niggas But we stayed out, times, we prayed bout 'em Nigga step up talking that and I laid out 'em MJG rappin' the Memphis Tennie, you and I feel it Pass me some of the I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I could it now The pimps introduced us to pimping And everybody we know used to play in streets Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the City Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood 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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