Said I got the I got the blues Memphis blues Yeah, light up the green, watch me light up the Watch me light up the mic, fat boy, be the 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 more than another broke ass nigga In this game of life, your life in the game Take a life full of pain, you remember my name From the of the blues, thought I paid my dues It's to fill my shoes, imitators abuse I love the music, like my heart and my brain Couldn't live it, that's impossible man I'm unstoppable man, from the I came Niggas scratching for bread, up on the fame Humble niggas game, shut yo' mouth up and listen Recognize, a blessing, thankful just to be living 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 neighborhood pimps 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 A+ beepers and gray phones Even further back when I was just around the yard bikes and shit, falling and getting my legs scarred In the city, Memphis Tenn, they turned me into this My dad and a couple of my friends, they played And when we used to to school at 16 We bumped shit like Bobby Womack and Al Hell, I knew most of the old school shit front to end I would to memorize, four fives at age 10 I come from a city where R&B run And the was the music that paved the whole street It was only natural that we take the torch and run wit it Be serious, but still a little fun wit it MJG, from a town that real deep Ask B.B. King and Isaac Hayes on Street I got the City Blues Ooo, I feel it now The pimps introduced 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 us to pimping (This is how put it down) Everybody we know used to play in them (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 Windows down, no AC cause 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 just to make the world love 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 dippers and big jails to hide But we out, hard times, we prayed bout 'em Nigga step up that shit and I laid out 'em MJG rappin' the Memphis Tennie, you and I could it Pass me some of the I got the Memphis 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 City Blues Ooo, I could it now The pimps introduced 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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