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, learn the or get burned take 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 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, I paid my dues It's to fill my shoes, imitators abuse I just love the music, 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 with game, shut yo' mouth up and Recognize, it's a blessing, thankful to be living I got the City Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to And everybody we 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 used to play in streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man I had the City Jones running through my bones Way, way with A+ beepers and gray phones Even 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, played 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 school shit front to end I would to memorize, four fives at age 10 I come from a city R&B run deep And the was the music that paved the whole street It was only natural that we would take the and run wit it Be serious, but still a little fun wit it MJG, from a town that runs real Ask B.B. King and Isaac on Beale Street I got the Memphis Blues 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 City Blues 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 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 still we a place to go to the South at my nigga house, chiefing out Skipping school, what the Memphis City Blues 'bout Me and G and a whole of others Had a rocky to travel just to make the world love us 'Cause it's the Memphis City, really to call it itty Would be an We got big ass, cash, and Big pimping and hurt, the pockets of big tippers Side dippers and big jails to 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 Memphis Blues Ooo, I feel 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 feel it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to (This is how put it down) And everybody we know used to play in them (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man
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