8Ball, MJG - Memphis City Blues lyrics

Hmmm said I got the blues
Said I got the blues memphis City Blues

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
Mayne, 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 mayne
I'm unstoppable mayne, from the bottom I came
Niggas scratching for bread
Stumbled up on the fame
Humble niggas with game
Shut your 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, streets oh man, oh man
Oh man i got the Memphis City Blues
Ooh, I could feel it now
The neighborhood pimps introduced
Us to pimping (This is how they put it down)
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 Beale Street

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, streets oh man, oh man
Oh man i got the Memphis City Blues
Ooh, I could feel it now
The neighborhood pimps introduced
Us to pimping (This is how they put it down)
And everybody we know
Used to play in them, street oh man, oh man
Oh man

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 him
MJG reppin' the Memphis, Tenny
You and I could feel it
Pass me some of the Henny

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, streets
Oh man, oh man, oh man
I got the Memphis City Blues
Ooh, I could feel it now
The neighborhood pimps introduced
Us to pimping (This is how they put it down)
And everybody we know
Used to play in them, streets
Oh man, oh man, oh man

Memphis City said I got the blues
Said I got the blues said I got the blues
Got a jones in my bones and
It won't leave me alone i got the blues