Said I got the Said I got the Memphis blues 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 streets or get Niggas what 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 another ass nigga In this game of life, lose your in the game Take a life of pain, make you remember my name the home of the blues, thought I paid my dues It's hard to fill my shoes, imitators I just love the music, like my heart and my live without it, that's impossible man I'm unstoppable man, from the I came Niggas scratching for bread, up on the fame Humble with game, shut yo' mouth up and listen Recognize, it's a blessing, thankful just to be I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps us to pimping And we know used to play in them streets Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the City 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 them (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man I had the Memphis City running through my bones Way, way back with A+ beepers and gray Even further back when I was playing around the yard bikes 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 we used to roll to school at 16 We bumped shit like Bobby and Al Green Hell, I knew most of the old school shit front to end I would start to memorize, four at age 10 I come from a city where R&B run And the blues was the music that paved the street It was natural that we would take the torch and run wit it Be serious, but still have a fun wit it MJG, from a town runs real deep Ask B.B. King and Isaac Hayes on Beale I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps us to pimping And we know used to play in them streets Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the City Blues Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps us to pimping (This is how put it down) we know used to play in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man Yeah, on pimping man, me and G was born 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 Skipping school, learning what the Memphis Blues 'bout Me and G and a whole bunch of Had a rocky road to travel just to the world love us 'Cause it's the Memphis City, really to call it bitty be an understatement We got big ass, cash, and Big pimping working and hurt, the pockets of big Side dippers and big jails to hide But we out, hard times, we prayed bout 'em step up talking that shit and I laid out 'em MJG rappin' the Memphis Tennie, you and I feel it me some of the henny I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I could 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 Memphis Blues Ooo, I feel it now The pimps introduced us to pimping (This is how put it down) And we know used to play in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man
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