Said I got the I got the blues Memphis blues Yeah, up the green, watch me light up the room Watch me up the mic, fat boy, be the truth live and learn, learn the streets or get burned Niggas take what you earn, be slick as a perm Man I try to be slicker, try to be cunning and Try to be more than another broke ass nigga In this game of life, lose your in the game Take a life full of pain, make you remember my From the of the blues, thought I paid my dues It's hard to my shoes, imitators abuse I just love the music, my heart and my brain Couldn't live it, that's impossible man I'm unstoppable man, from the I came Niggas scratching for bread, up on the fame Humble niggas game, shut yo' mouth up and listen Recognize, it's a blessing, thankful just to be I got the City Blues Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to And everybody we know to play in them streets Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the Memphis City Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood introduced us to pimping (This is how put it down) Everybody we know used to in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man I had the Memphis City Jones through my bones Way, way with A+ beepers and gray phones Even further back when I was just playing around the Riding bikes and shit, and getting my legs scarred In the music city, Memphis Tenn, they turned me this My dad and a couple of my friends, they instruments And when we used to roll to at 16 We shit like Bobby Womack and Al Green Hell, I knew most of the old school from front to end I would start to memorize, four at age 10 I from a city where R&B run deep And the blues was the music that paved the street It was only natural that we would 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 Isaac Hayes on Beale I got the Memphis City Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps us to pimping And we know used to play in them 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) Everybody we used to play in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man Yeah, on that pimping man, me and G was born and Commodores, O Jays, Beverly 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, learning what the City Blues 'bout Me and G and a whole of others Had a rocky road to travel just to make the world us 'Cause the Memphis City, really to call it itty bitty be an understatement We got big ass, cash, and Big working and hurt, the pockets of big tippers Side 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 Memphis Tennie, you and I could it me some of the henny I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to 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 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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