Said I got the I got the blues Memphis city Yeah, light up the green, watch me up the room me light up the mic, fat boy, be the truth Nigga live and learn, learn the or get burned Niggas take you earn, they be slick as a perm Man I try to be slicker, try to be and quicker Try to be more than just broke ass nigga In this of life, lose your life in the game Take a full of pain, make you remember my name From the home of the blues, thought I my dues It's to fill my shoes, imitators abuse I just love the music, like my and my brain Couldn't live it, that's impossible man I'm unstoppable man, from the bottom I scratching for bread, stumbled up on the fame Humble niggas with game, shut yo' up and listen Recognize, it's a blessing, thankful just to be I got the City 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 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 I had the City Jones running through my bones Way, way back with A+ beepers and gray Even further back when I was just playing around the bikes and shit, falling and getting my legs 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 to school at 16 We bumped like Bobby Womack and Al Green Hell, I knew most of the old school from front 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 music that the whole street It was only natural that we would the torch and run wit it Be serious, but have a little fun wit it MJG, from a town that runs real Ask B.B. King and Hayes on Beale Street I got the City Blues Ooo, I could it now The pimps introduced us to pimping And everybody we know used to play in streets Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to (This is how put it down) Everybody we know used to play in streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man Yeah, on that pimping man, me and G was and raised Commodores, O Jays, Beverly and Maze Windows down, no AC cause the gas low Bread at a minimum, but still we a place to go North to the South at my nigga house, out school, learning what the Memphis City Blues 'bout Me and G and a whole of others Had a rocky road to travel just to make the love us 'Cause it's the Memphis City, really to it itty bitty Would be an We got big ass, cash, and Big working and hurt, the pockets of big tippers Side dippers and big jails to niggas But we out, hard times, we prayed bout 'em Nigga up talking 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 could it now The neighborhood introduced 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 streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man
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