Said I got the Said I got the Memphis city Yeah, light up the green, watch me up the room me light up the mic, fat boy, be the truth Nigga live and learn, learn the streets or get Niggas take you earn, they be slick as a perm Man I try to be slicker, try to be and quicker Try to be more just another broke ass nigga In game of life, lose your life in the game Take a full of pain, make you remember my name From the home of the blues, I paid my dues It's hard to my shoes, imitators abuse I just love the music, like my and my brain live without it, that's impossible man I'm unstoppable man, from the bottom I Niggas for bread, stumbled up on the fame Humble niggas with game, shut yo' mouth up and Recognize, a blessing, thankful just to be living I got the Memphis City Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood 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) 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+ beepers and gray Even further back when I was just playing the yard Riding bikes and shit, falling and getting my legs In the music city, Memphis Tenn, they me into this My dad and a of my friends, they played instruments And when we to roll to school at 16 We bumped like Bobby Womack and Al Green Hell, I knew most of the old shit from front to end I would start to memorize, four at age 10 I come from a city where R&B run And the blues was the music that paved the street It was only natural we would take the torch and run wit it Be serious, but still a little fun wit it MJG, from a town that runs deep Ask B.B. King and Hayes on Beale Street I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood introduced us to pimping And everybody we know used to play in them Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the City Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps 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 and raised Commodores, O Jays, Frankie Beverly and Windows down, no AC cause the gas low Bread at a minimum, but we found a place to go North to the at my nigga house, chiefing out Skipping school, learning what the Memphis City 'bout Me and G and a whole of others Had a rocky road to just to make the world love us 'Cause it's the Memphis City, really to call it itty be an understatement We got big ass, cash, and Big pimping working and hurt, the of big tippers Side and big jails to hide niggas But we stayed out, hard times, we bout 'em Nigga step up talking shit and I laid out 'em MJG rappin' the Tennie, you and I could feel it me some of the henny I got the Memphis Blues 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) And everybody we used to play in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man
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