Said I got the Said I got the Memphis city 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 streets or get Niggas take what you earn, 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 game of life, lose your life in the game Take a life full of pain, you remember my name From the home of the blues, thought I paid my It's hard to fill my shoes, imitators I just the music, like my heart and my brain Couldn't live 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' up and listen Recognize, a blessing, thankful just to be living I got the City Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to 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 pimps 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 I had the Memphis City Jones through my bones Way, way back A+ beepers and gray phones further back when I was just playing around 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 couple of my friends, they instruments And when we used to roll to at 16 We bumped shit like Bobby and Al Green Hell, I knew most of the old shit from front to end I start to memorize, four fives at age 10 I come from a where R&B run deep And the blues was the music that paved the 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 runs deep Ask B.B. King and Isaac on Beale Street I got the Memphis City 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 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 Yeah, on that pimping man, me and G was and raised Commodores, O Jays, Frankie Beverly and Windows rolled down, no AC the gas low Bread at a minimum, but we found a place to go to the South at my nigga house, chiefing out Skipping school, learning the Memphis City Blues 'bout Me and G and a whole of others Had a rocky road to travel just to make the world us 'Cause it's the Memphis City, really to call it 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 prayed 'em Nigga step up talking shit and I laid out 'em MJG rappin' the Memphis Tennie, you and I could it Pass me of the henny I got the City Blues Ooo, I feel 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 City Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps 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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