memphis city blues

said i got the blues

memphis city blues

yeah

light up the green

watch me light up the room

watch me light up the mic

fat boy be the truth

nigga live and learn

learn the streets or get burned

niggas take what you earn

they be slick as a perm

man i try to be slicker

try to be cunning and quicker

try to be more than just another broke ass nigga

in this game of life

lose your life in the game

take a life full of pain

make you remember my name

from the home of the blues

thought i paid my dues

it's hard to fill my shoes

imitators abuse

i just love the music

like my heart or my brain

couldn't live without it

that's impossible man

i'm unstoppable man

from the bottom i came

niggas scratching for bread

stumbled up on the fame

humble niggas with game

shut yo mouth up and listen

recognize it's a blessing thankful just to be living

i got the memphis city blues

ooh

i could feel it now

the neighborhood pimps introduced us to pimping

and everybody we know

used to play in them

street oh man

oh man

oh man

i got the memphis city blues

ooh

i could feel it now

the neighbourhood pimps introduced us to pimping

and everybody we know

used to play in them

street oh man

oh man

oh man

i had the memphis city jones running through my bones

way

way back with a+ beepers and gray phones

even further back when i was just playing around the yard

riding bikes and shit

falling and getting my legs scarred

in the music city

memphis

tenn they turned me into this

my dad and a couple of my friends they played instruments

and when we used to roll to school at 16

we bumped shit like bobby womack and al green

hell

i knew most of the old school shit from front to end

i would start to memorize four fives at age 10

i come from a city where r&b run deep

and the blues was the music that paved the whole street

it was only natural that we would take the torch and run wit it

be serious but still have a little fun wit it

mjg from a town that runs real deep

ask b. b. king and isaac hayes on bill street

yeah

on that pimping man

me and g was born and raised

commodores

o'jays

frankie beverly and maze

windows rolled down

no ac cause the gas low

bread at a minimum but still we found a place to go

north to the south at my nigga house

chiefing out

skipping school learning what the memphis city blues bout

me and g and a whole bunch of others

had a rocky road to travel just to make the world love us

cause it's the memphis city really to call it itty bitty

would be an understatement

we got big ass

cash

and titties

big pimping working and hurt

the pockets of big tippers

side dippers

and big jails to hide niggas

but we stayed out em

hard times we prayed bout em

nigga step up talking that shit and i laid out em

mjg reppin the memphis tennie

you and i could feel it

pass me some of the henny