Said I got the I got the blues Memphis city Yeah, light up the green, watch me light up the Watch me light up the mic, fat boy, be the live and learn, learn the streets 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 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, I paid my dues It's hard to fill my shoes, imitators I just the music, like my heart and my brain live without it, that's impossible man I'm unstoppable man, from the bottom I Niggas for bread, stumbled up on the fame Humble niggas with game, shut yo' up and listen Recognize, it's a blessing, thankful to be living 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 City Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to (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 running through my Way, way back with A+ beepers and phones Even further back when I was just playing around the Riding bikes and shit, falling and getting my legs In the music city, Memphis Tenn, they turned me into My dad and a couple of my friends, played instruments And when we used to roll to at 16 We shit like Bobby Womack and Al Green Hell, I knew most of the old school shit from to end I would start to memorize, fives at age 10 I come from a where R&B run deep And the blues was the music that paved the whole It was only natural that we would take the and run wit it Be serious, but still have a fun wit it MJG, from a town that runs real Ask B.B. King and Isaac on Beale Street 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 City Blues Ooo, I could it now The pimps introduced 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 Yeah, on that pimping man, me and G was and raised Commodores, O Jays, Frankie 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 house, chiefing out Skipping school, learning what the Memphis City 'bout Me and G and a whole bunch of Had a rocky road to travel to make the world love us 'Cause it's the Memphis City, really to call it itty 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, hard times, we prayed 'em Nigga step up talking that shit and I 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 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 could it now The pimps introduced us to pimping (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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