Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Memphis City Blues , by - 8Ball & MJG. Release date: 03.10.2005
Song language: English
Memphis City Blues |
| 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 |