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