Said I got the I got the blues Memphis blues Yeah, light up the green, watch me up the room me light up the mic, fat boy, be the truth Nigga and learn, learn the streets or get burned 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 just another broke ass nigga In this game of life, lose 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 love the music, like my heart and my brain Couldn't live it, that's impossible man I'm unstoppable man, the bottom I came 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 City Ooo, I could 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 Blues Ooo, I could 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 I had the Memphis City Jones running my bones Way, way back with A+ beepers and gray Even further back when I was just playing the yard Riding and shit, falling and getting my legs scarred In the music city, Memphis Tenn, they me into this My dad and a couple of my friends, played instruments And when we to roll to school at 16 We bumped shit like Bobby and Al Green Hell, I knew most of the old shit from 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 we would take the torch and run wit it Be serious, but still have a fun wit it MJG, from a town that runs deep Ask B.B. and Isaac Hayes on Beale Street I got the Memphis 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 Blues Ooo, I could 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, Frankie and Maze Windows down, no AC cause the gas low Bread at a minimum, but still we found a to go North to the at my nigga house, chiefing out Skipping school, learning what the Memphis City 'bout Me and G and a bunch of others Had a rocky road to travel just to 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 and hurt, the pockets of big tippers Side and big jails to hide niggas But we out, hard times, we prayed bout 'em Nigga step up talking shit and I laid out 'em MJG rappin' the Memphis Tennie, you and I could it me some of the henny I got the City Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to 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 neighborhood 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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