Said I got the I got the blues Memphis city Yeah, light up the green, watch me light up the Watch me up the mic, fat boy, be the truth Nigga live and learn, learn the streets or get Niggas take what you earn, they be slick as a Man I try to be slicker, try to be and quicker Try to be more than another broke ass nigga In this game of life, lose your life in the Take a life full of pain, you remember my name From the home of the blues, thought I my dues It's hard to fill my shoes, imitators I just love the music, like my heart and my Couldn't live without it, that's man I'm unstoppable man, the bottom I came scratching for bread, stumbled up on the fame Humble with game, shut yo' mouth up and listen Recognize, it's a blessing, just to be living I got the City Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood introduced us to pimping And we know used to play in them streets Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the Memphis City Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps us to pimping (This is how put it down) Everybody we know used to in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man I had the Memphis City Jones through my bones Way, way with A+ beepers and gray phones further back when I was just playing around the yard Riding bikes and shit, and getting my legs scarred In the music city, Tenn, they turned me into this My dad and a couple of my friends, they played And when we to roll to school at 16 We bumped shit like Womack and Al Green Hell, I knew most of the old school shit from to end I start to memorize, four fives at age 10 I from a city where R&B run deep And the blues was the that paved the whole street It was only that we would take the torch and run wit it Be serious, but still have a fun wit it MJG, a town that runs real deep Ask B.B. King and Isaac Hayes on Street I got the City Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood introduced us to pimping And everybody we know used to in them 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) 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 born and Commodores, O Jays, Beverly and Maze Windows rolled down, no AC the gas low at a minimum, but still we found 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 of others Had a rocky to travel 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 pockets of big Side and big jails to hide niggas But we stayed out, hard times, we bout 'em Nigga step up that shit and I laid out 'em MJG rappin' the Memphis Tennie, you and I feel it Pass me of the henny I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood introduced us to pimping And everybody we know used to play in them Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the Memphis City Ooo, I feel it now The pimps introduced us to pimping (This is how put it down) And everybody we know used to in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man
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