Said I got the Said I got the city blues Yeah, light up the green, watch me up the room Watch me light up the mic, fat boy, be the Nigga live and learn, learn the or get burned Niggas take what you earn, they be as a perm Man I try to be slicker, try to be and quicker Try to be more than another broke ass nigga In this of life, lose your life in the game Take a life full of pain, make you remember my From the home of the blues, I paid my dues It's hard to my shoes, imitators abuse I love the music, like my heart and my brain Couldn't without it, that's impossible man I'm unstoppable man, from the I came 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 feel it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to 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 in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man I had the Memphis City Jones running my bones Way, way back with A+ beepers and gray Even further back I was just playing around the yard Riding bikes and shit, and getting my legs scarred In the city, Memphis Tenn, they turned me into this My dad and a couple of my friends, they instruments And we used to roll to school at 16 We bumped shit Bobby Womack and Al Green Hell, I knew most of the old school shit front to end I would start to memorize, fives at age 10 I from a city where R&B run deep And the blues was the music that paved the street It was only natural that we would 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 Isaac Hayes on Beale I got the Memphis City 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 City Blues Ooo, I feel it now The pimps introduced 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, Frankie and Maze Windows down, no AC cause the gas low Bread at a minimum, but we found a place to go to the South at my nigga house, chiefing 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 make the love us it's the Memphis City, really to call it itty bitty Would be an We got big ass, cash, and Big pimping and hurt, the pockets of big tippers Side and big jails to hide niggas But we out, hard times, we prayed bout 'em Nigga step up talking that and I laid out 'em MJG the Memphis Tennie, you and I could feel it me some of the henny I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I could it now The pimps introduced us to pimping And everybody we know used to in them 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) And everybody we know to play in them streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man
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