We Come From

Lyrics

[Chorus] (x2) We come from Memphis, Tenn, Houston, Texas, New Orleans, Atlanta Jackson, Mississippi, Birmingham, Alabama Little Rock, Arkansas, Miami, Florida, St. Louis, Missouri Come & take a tour of [Verse 1: MJG] Real southern thorough bred watermelon fried chicken Died with my boots on at least I know I died kickin' Horse in my front yard, Wagon in my back yard Cornbread [?] if you wanna act hard Walk & talk real slow, swag kinda laid back Pimp Tight M-J bringin' good old days back Show them hospitality with hospital reality We [?] in my cavalry & burn a couple calories Country to the ham bone I dont need no telephone Come and see and tell me somethin' I be in the O Zone I be where them dawgs at, where them strippers keep shakin' Scratch off, sweep stakin', man I still eat bacon We got the hard & we got the powder Always on First 48 hours Come and see the [?], come and get the cheap price [?] [Chorus] (x2) [Verse 2: 8Ball] Hot summer nights, look up and see the stars Them boys like to ride rims bigger than they cars Them girls got them shorts on legs all [?] [?] but you can still hear the ice cream truck Kids playin in the street nan other place triller Everybody go to mama house for that Sunday dinner Cornbread, collar greens, candied yams, black eyed peas Waffle House after the club when n****s [?] Crawfish & red beans & rice & I know bitches who still be eatin' chitlins & still some of the nicest people you'll ever meet & still come from the broken families & deadly streets Unfortunate kids their mama high ain't nothin to eat They rise up and be greater than what they thought they'd be I love to live it forever I've gotta represent it Yeah, yeah, yeah - [Chorus] (x2) [Verse 3: David Banner] I'm from a place where my grand folks hung from they neck Where they brothers went North & never came back to help Where [?] Elvis died, where the worst flag flies Where the Klu Klux Klan still plots our demise Where Oprah ass is from, where Jerry Rice caught balls Where strong men is raised cause we used to it all We're used to being broke, we're used to choppin' bricks And when the eye of Katrina hit y'all didn't say shit George Bush didn't flinch cause Halliburton hit a lick & if you wanna know where your family from take a trip But we got' stay strong cause our cars 150 David Banner, Southside, still screamin' Mississippi [Chorus] (x2)