Memphis City Blues Lyrics - Living Legends - Eightball & Mjg

Said I got the 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 and 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 

Ooo, 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 

Ooo, I could feel it now 

The neighborhood pimps introduced us to pimping 

(This is how they put it down) 

Everybody we know used to play in them streets 

(We know) 

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 

Ooo, 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 

Ooo, I could feel it now 

The neighborhood pimps introduced us to pimping 

(This is how they put it down) 

Everybody we know used to play in them streets 

(We know) 

Oh man, oh man, oh man 

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, hard times, we prayed bout 'em 

Nigga step up talking that shit and I laid out 'em 

MJG rappin' the Memphis Tennie, you and I could feel it 

Pass me some of the henny 

I got the Memphis City Blues 

Ooo, 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 

Ooo, 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 

(We know) 

Oh man, oh man, oh man 

Said I got the blues 

Said I got the blues 

Said I got the blues 

Gotta Jones in my bones 

And it won't leave me alone 

I got the blues