Empire State Of Mind

[00:09.74] Yeah, yeah, I'm out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca
[00:13.51] Right next to De Niro, but I'll be hood forever
[00:16.26] I'm the new Sinatra, and since I made it here
[00:19.09] I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere
[00:21.56] I used to cop in Harlem, Hola my Dominicanos
[00:24.19] Right there up on Broadway
[00:25.87] Brought me back to that McDonald's
[00:27.35] Took it to my stash spot, 560 State Street
[00:29.98] Catch me in the Kitchen like a Simmons whipping pastry
[00:32.54] Cruising down 8th Street, off-white Lexus
[00:35.52] Driving so slow, but BK is from Texas
[00:38.22] Me?, I'm out at Bed-Stuy, home of that boy Biggie
[00:41.08] Now I live on Billboard, and I brought my boys with me
[00:44.17] Say "what up?" to Ty Ty, still sippin' Mai Tais
[00:46.74] Sitting courtside, Knicks and Nets give me high fives
[00:49.46] Nigga, I be spiked out, I could trip a referee
[00:52.35] Tell by my attitude that I am most definitely from
[00:55.44] In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of (Ayy, uh, yeah, yeah)
[01:02.20] There's nothing you can't do (Yeah, okay)
[01:05.26] Now you're in New York (Aha, aha, aha)
[01:10.01] These streets will make you feel brand new (New)
[01:13.87] Big lights will inspire you (Come on)
[01:16.23] Let's hear it for New York (You welcome, OG)
[01:18.68] New York, New York (I made you hot, nigga)
[01:22.91] Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankees game
[01:25.64] Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can
[01:28.52] You should know I bleed blue, but I ain't a Crip though
[01:31.01] But I got a gang of niggas walking with my clique, though
[01:33.86] Welcome to the melting pot, corners where we selling rock
[01:36.66] Afrika Bambaataa shit, home of the hip hop
[01:39.25] Yellow Cab, Gypsy Cab, Dollar Cab, holla back
[01:41.91] For foreigners that ain't fair, they act like they forgot how to add
[01:44.87] Eight million stories out there in the naked
[01:47.62] City it's a pity, half of y'all won't make it
[01:50.19] Me?, I gotta plug, Special Ed "I Got It Made"
[01:53.03] If Jeezy payin' LeBron, I'm paying Dwyane Wade
[01:55.92] Three dice, Cee-lo, three-card Monte
[01:58.77] Labor Day Parade, rest in peace, Bob Marley
[02:01.49] Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade
[02:04.30] Long live the king, yo, I'm from the Empire State that's
[02:07.61] In New York (Yeah), concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[02:14.32] There's nothing you can't do (That boy good, okay)
[02:17.13] Now you're in New York (Uh, yeah)
[02:21.50] (Welcome to the bright lights, baby) These streets will make you feel brand new
[02:25.09] Big lights will inspire you (Okay)
[02:27.86] Let's hear it for New York
[02:30.77] New York, New York
[02:35.24] Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
[02:38.11] So they can step out of bounds quick the side lines is
[02:40.97] Lined with casualties who sip the life casually
[02:43.61] Then gradually become worse
[02:45.22] Don't bite the apple, Eve!
[02:46.44] Caught up in the in-crowd now you're in-style
[02:49.04] Into the winter gets cold en Vogue with your skin out
[02:51.71] The city of sin is a pity on a whim
[02:54.55] Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them
[02:57.38] Mami took a bus trip, now she got her bust out
[03:00.33] Everybody ride her just like a bus route
[03:03.16] "Hail Mary" to the city, you're a virgin
[03:05.85] And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church ends
[03:08.79] Came here for school, graduated to the high life
[03:11.22] Ball players, rap stars addicted to the limelight
[03:14.16] MDMA got you feeling like a champion
[03:16.87] The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien
[03:19.55] In New York (Ayy, ow, uh, yeah), concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[03:26.26] There's nothing you can't do (Okay)
[03:29.40] Now you're in New York (Uh, yeah)
[03:33.67] These streets will make you feel brand new
[03:37.13] Big lights will inspire you (Okay)
[03:40.40] Let's hear it for New York
[03:42.77] New York, New York
[03:47.65] One hand in the air for the big city
[03:50.42] Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty
[03:53.20] No place in the world that could compare
[03:55.45] Put your lighters in the air, everybody say
[03:58.21] Yeah, yeah (Come on, come on)
[04:00.97] Yeah, yeah (Come on)
[04:03.21] In New York (Uh, yeah, oh), concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[04:10.76] There's nothing you can't do (Okay)
[04:13.78] Now you're in New York (Uh, yeah, yeah)
[04:18.09] These streets will make you feel brand new
[04:21.67] Big lights will inspire you (Okay)
[04:24.60] Let's hear it for New York (Uh)
[04:27.53] New York (Yeah), New York (Uh)
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