Said I got the Said I got the Memphis blues Yeah, up the green, watch me light up the room 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 as a perm Man I try to be slicker, try to be cunning and Try to be more than just broke ass nigga In game of life, lose your life in the game a life 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 love the music, my heart and my brain Couldn't live 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 just to be I got the City Blues Ooo, I could it now The neighborhood pimps introduced us to And everybody we 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) Everybody we know used to play in streets (We know) Oh man, oh man, oh man I had the Memphis City Jones running through my Way, way back A+ beepers and gray phones further back when I was just playing around the yard Riding and shit, falling and getting my legs scarred In the city, Memphis 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 from front to end I would to memorize, four fives at age 10 I come from a city R&B run deep And the blues was the music that the whole street It was natural that we would take the torch and run wit it Be serious, but still a little fun wit it MJG, from a town runs real deep Ask B.B. King and Isaac on Beale Street I got the Memphis Blues Ooo, I feel it now The pimps 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 could it now The pimps introduced us to pimping (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 and raised 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, what the Memphis City Blues 'bout Me and G and a bunch of others Had a rocky road to travel to make the world love us 'Cause it's the Memphis City, to call it itty bitty be an understatement We got big ass, cash, and Big pimping and hurt, the pockets of big tippers dippers and big jails to hide niggas But we stayed out, times, we prayed bout 'em Nigga step up talking that and I laid out 'em MJG rappin' the Tennie, you and I could feel it me some of the henny I got the City Blues Ooo, I could it now The pimps introduced 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 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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