Said I got the I got the blues Memphis city Yeah, up the green, watch me light up the room Watch me light up the mic, fat boy, be the Nigga live and learn, learn the or get burned Niggas what you earn, they be slick as a perm Man I try to be slicker, try to be cunning and Try to be more than another broke ass nigga In this of life, lose your life in the game Take a life full of pain, make you remember my the home of the blues, thought I paid my dues It's hard to fill my shoes, imitators I just the music, like my heart and my brain Couldn't live without it, impossible man I'm unstoppable man, from the bottom I Niggas scratching for bread, stumbled up on the Humble niggas game, shut yo' mouth up and listen Recognize, it's a blessing, just to be living I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I feel 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 could 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 I had the Memphis City Jones running my bones Way, way back with A+ beepers and phones further back when I was just playing around the yard Riding bikes and shit, falling and getting my scarred In the music city, Memphis Tenn, turned me into this My dad and a couple of my friends, they instruments And we used to roll 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 start to memorize, fives at age 10 I come from a where R&B run deep And the blues was the music paved the whole street It was only natural that we would the torch and run wit it Be serious, but still a little fun wit it MJG, a town that runs real deep Ask B.B. King and Hayes on Beale Street I got the Memphis City Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood introduced us to pimping And everybody we know to play in them streets Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the City Blues Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood 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 Yeah, on that man, me and G was born and raised Commodores, O Jays, Frankie and Maze rolled down, no AC cause the gas low Bread at a minimum, but still we found a to go to the South at my nigga house, chiefing out Skipping school, learning what the Memphis Blues 'bout Me and G and a whole of others Had a rocky road to travel just to make the world us 'Cause the Memphis City, really to call it itty bitty Would be an We got big ass, cash, and Big pimping working and hurt, the pockets of big Side dippers and big jails to niggas But we stayed out, hard times, we prayed 'em Nigga up talking that shit and I laid out 'em MJG the Memphis Tennie, you and I could feel it Pass me some of the I got the Memphis City Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood introduced us to pimping And we know used to play in them streets Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps us to pimping (This is how put it down) And everybody we know used to play in streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man
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