Said I got the I got the blues Memphis city Yeah, up the green, watch me light up the room Watch me light up the mic, fat boy, be the 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 cunning and Try to be more than another broke ass nigga In game of life, lose your life in the game Take a life full of pain, make you remember my the home of the blues, thought 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 bottom I Niggas scratching for bread, up on the fame Humble niggas with game, shut yo' mouth up and Recognize, a blessing, thankful just to be living I got the City 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 Blues Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps 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 I had the City Jones running through my bones Way, way back with A+ beepers and phones Even further back when I was just around the yard Riding bikes and shit, falling and getting my legs In the music city, Memphis Tenn, they turned me this My dad and a couple of my friends, played instruments And we used to roll to school at 16 We bumped shit Bobby Womack and Al Green Hell, I most of the old school shit from front to end I would start to memorize, fives at age 10 I come from a city where R&B run And the blues was the music paved the whole street It was only natural we would take the torch and run wit it Be serious, but still a little fun wit it MJG, from a that runs real deep Ask B.B. King and Hayes 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 feel 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 Yeah, on pimping man, me and G was born and raised Commodores, O Jays, Frankie and Maze rolled down, no AC cause the gas low Bread at a minimum, but we found a place to go North to the South at my nigga house, 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 make the love us 'Cause it's the Memphis City, to call it itty bitty Would be an We got big ass, cash, and Big pimping working and hurt, the pockets of big Side dippers and big jails to niggas But we stayed out, times, we prayed bout 'em Nigga step up talking that shit and I out 'em MJG rappin' the Memphis Tennie, you and I feel it Pass me of the henny I got the City Blues Ooo, I feel 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 Memphis Blues 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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