Said I got the Said I got the city blues Yeah, up the green, watch me light up the room me light up the mic, fat boy, be the truth Nigga live and learn, the streets or get burned Niggas take what you earn, they be as a perm Man I try to be slicker, try to be cunning and Try to be more than just another broke ass 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 hard to fill my shoes, abuse I just love the music, like my heart and my Couldn't live it, that's impossible man I'm unstoppable man, from the bottom I scratching for bread, stumbled up on the fame Humble niggas game, shut yo' mouth up and listen Recognize, it's a blessing, thankful to be living I got the City Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps us to pimping And everybody we know 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 to play in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man I had the Memphis Jones running through my bones Way, way back with A+ beepers and gray Even further back I was just playing around the yard bikes and shit, falling and getting my legs scarred In the music city, Memphis Tenn, turned me into this My dad and a couple of my friends, they played And we used to roll to school at 16 We bumped shit like Bobby Womack and Al Hell, I most of the old school shit from front to end I would to memorize, four fives at age 10 I come from a city where R&B run And the blues was the music that paved the whole 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 Hayes on Beale Street I got the City Blues Ooo, I feel 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 City Ooo, I feel 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 man, me and G was born and raised Commodores, O Jays, Beverly and Maze rolled down, no AC cause the gas low Bread at a minimum, but still we a place to go to the South at my nigga 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 just to make the world us 'Cause it's the Memphis City, really to it itty bitty Would be an We got big ass, cash, and Big pimping working and hurt, the pockets of big dippers and big jails to hide niggas 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 Pass me of the henny I got the Memphis City Ooo, I feel it now The neighborhood pimps us to pimping And everybody we used to play in them streets Oh man, oh man, oh man I got the Memphis City Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to (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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