Said I got the I got the blues Memphis city Yeah, light up the green, me light up the room Watch me up the mic, fat boy, be the truth Nigga live and learn, learn the streets or get take what 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 this game of life, lose your life in the Take a life of pain, make you remember my name From the home of the blues, I paid my dues hard to fill my shoes, imitators abuse I just love the music, my heart and my brain Couldn't without it, that's impossible man I'm man, from the bottom I came scratching for bread, stumbled 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 Memphis Blues Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps 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 could it now The pimps introduced us to pimping (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 Memphis City running through my bones Way, way back with A+ beepers and gray Even further back when I was just playing around the Riding bikes and shit, falling and getting my 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 to school at 16 We bumped shit like Womack and Al Green Hell, I knew most of the old school shit from to end I would to memorize, four fives at age 10 I from a city where R&B run deep And the blues was the that paved the whole street It was only natural that we would take the and run wit it Be serious, but still have a fun wit it MJG, from a town runs real deep Ask B.B. King and Isaac Hayes on Beale I got the Memphis Blues 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 Memphis City Ooo, I could it now The pimps introduced us to pimping (This is how put it down) Everybody we know to play in them 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 still we a place to go to the South at my nigga 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 to make the world love us 'Cause it's the Memphis City, to call it itty bitty 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 prayed 'em Nigga step up talking that and I laid out 'em MJG the Memphis Tennie, you and I could feel it Pass me of the henny I got the Memphis City Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps 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 pimps introduced us to pimping (This is how put it down) And everybody we know to play in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man
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