Said I got the I got the blues Memphis city Yeah, light up the green, watch me light up the Watch me light up the mic, fat boy, be the Nigga live and 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 and quicker Try to be more than just another broke ass In this game of life, lose life in the game Take a life full of pain, you remember my name From the home of the blues, thought I my dues It's hard to fill my shoes, imitators 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 scratching for bread, stumbled up on the fame Humble with game, shut yo' mouth up and listen Recognize, a blessing, thankful just to be living I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to 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 neighborhood pimps introduced us to (This is how put it down) we know used 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 with A+ and gray phones further back when I was just playing around the yard Riding 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 when we used to to school at 16 We bumped shit Bobby Womack and Al Green Hell, I most of the old school 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 whole It was only natural that we would the torch and run wit it Be serious, but still have a fun wit it MJG, from a that runs real deep Ask B.B. and Isaac Hayes on Beale Street I got the Memphis City Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps us to pimping And everybody we know used to play in 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 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 we found a place to go North to the at my nigga house, chiefing out Skipping school, what the Memphis City Blues 'bout Me and G and a whole bunch of Had a rocky road to travel just to make the world us it's the Memphis City, really to call it itty bitty Would be an 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, times, we prayed bout 'em Nigga step up talking that and I laid out 'em MJG rappin' the Tennie, you and I could feel it me some of the henny I got the City Blues 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 Memphis Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps us to pimping (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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