Empire State of Mind

[00:10.38] Yeah
[00:11.26] Yeah, I'm out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca
[00:13.92] Right next to De Niro, but I'll be hood forever
[00:16.87] I'm the new Sinatra and since I made it here
[00:19.53] I can make it anywhere
[00:21.06] Yeah, they love me everywhere
[00:22.30] I used to cop in Harlem, all of my Dominicanos
[00:25.27] Right there up on Broadway, pull me back to that McDonald's
[00:28.13] Took it to my stash box, 560 State Street
[00:30.76] Catch me in the Kitchen like a Simmons with them pastries
[00:33.46] Cruising down 8th Street, off white Lexus
[00:36.12] Driving so slow but BK is from Texas
[00:38.89] Me, I'm out that Bed-Stuy, home of that boy Biggie
[00:41.73] Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me
[00:44.32] Say what up to Ty Ty, still sipping Mai Tais
[00:47.27] Sitting courtside, Knicks and Nets give me high five
[00:49.92] Jigga, I be spiked out, I could trip a referee
[00:52.83] Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from
[00:55.54] In New York (hey)
[00:58.83] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[01:02.79] There's nothing you can't do (yeah)
[01:05.99] Now you're in New York (you're in New York)
[01:10.49] These streets will make you feel brand new
[01:13.86] Big lights will inspire you (come on)
[01:16.86] Let's hear it for New York (you welcome, OG)
[01:19.24] New York, New York (I made you hot, jigga)
[01:23.04] Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
[01:26.14] Dude, I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can
[01:28.72] You should know I bleed blue but I ain't a Crip though
[01:31.87] But I got a gang of brothers walking with my clique though
[01:34.48] Welcome to the melting pot, corners where we selling rock
[01:37.10] Afrika Bambaataa, home of the hip-hop
[01:39.94] Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back
[01:42.70] For foreigners, it ain't, for they act like they forgot how to act
[01:45.67] Eight million stories, out there in it naked
[01:48.36] City is a pity, half of y'all won't make it
[01:51.17] Me, I gotta plug Special Ed, "I got it made"
[01:53.47] If Jeezy's payin' LeBron, I'm payin' Dwyane Wade
[01:56.43] Three dice cee-lo, three-card Marley
[01:59.40] Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley
[02:01.93] Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade
[02:04.90] Long live the kingdom I'm from the Empire State that's
[02:07.62] In New York (hey)
[02:11.13] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[02:14.74] There's nothing you can't do (that boy good)
[02:17.94] Now you're in New York (you're in New York)
[02:22.51] These streets will make you feel brand new
[02:25.86] Big lights will inspire you
[02:28.98] Let's hear it for New York (uh), New York (yeah), New York (uh)
[02:36.06] Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
[02:39.19] So they can step out of bounds quick, the sidelines is
[02:42.07] Lined with casualties who slip through life casually
[02:44.35] Then gradually become worse, don't bite the apple, Eve
[02:47.38] Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in style
[02:49.44] Into the winter gets cold, en vogue, with your skin out
[02:52.62] City of sin, it's a pity on the whim
[02:55.22] Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them
[02:58.08] Mami took a bus trip, now she got her bust out
[03:00.97] Everybody ride her just like a bus route
[03:03.94] Hail Mary to the city, you're a virgin
[03:06.56] And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church end
[03:09.55] Came here for school, graduated to the high life
[03:12.14] Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
[03:14.70] Dub, MHS got you feelin' like a champion
[03:17.66] The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien
[03:20.01] In New York (yeah, yeah)
[03:23.08] Concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh
[03:27.13] There's nothing you can't do
[03:29.78] Now you're in New York (you're in New York)
[03:34.31] These streets will make you feel brand new
[03:37.94] Big lights will inspire you
[03:40.72] Let's hear it for New York (uh), New York (yeah), New York (uh)
[03:48.11] One hand in the air for the big city
[03:51.06] Street lights, big dreams, all looking pretty
[03:53.86] No place in the world that could compare
[03:56.55] Put your lighters in the air, everybody say
[03:59.31] Yeah, yeah (come on), yeah, yeah
[04:04.07] In New York
[04:07.42] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[04:11.19] There's nothing you can't do
[04:14.33] Now you're in New York (New York, New York)
[04:18.73] These streets will make you feel brand new (brand new)
[04:22.37] Big lights will inspire you
[04:25.29] Let's hear it for New York (New York), New York (New York), New York (New York)
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