JAY-Z, Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind(2010)

[00:05.02] Yeah!
[00:10.60] Yeah, I'm out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca
[00:13.33] Right next to De Niro, but I'll be hood forever
[00:15.95] I'm the new Sinatra, and since I made it here
[00:18.80] I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere
[00:21.72] I used to cop in Harlem, "Hola, my Dominicanos"
[00:24.42] Right there up on Broadway, brought me back to that McDonald's
[00:27.15] Took it to my stash spot, 560 State Street
[00:30.12] Catch me in the kitchen, like a Simmons whippin' pastry
[00:32.86] Cruisin' down 8th street, off-white Lexus
[00:35.50] Drivin' so slow, but BK is from Texas
[00:38.10] Me I'm out that Bed-Stuy, home of that boy Biggie
[00:40.95] Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me
[00:43.98] Say "What up?" To Ty-Ty, still sippin' Mai Tais
[00:46.89] Sittin' courtside, Knick's and Nets give me high-fives
[00:49.45] Nigga, I be spiked out, I could trip a referee (c'mon, c'mon, c'mon)
[00:52.14] Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from, from
[00:55.44] In New York (ayy, a-ha) (uh, yeah)
[00:58.14] Concrete jungle (yeah, yeah) where dreams are made of
[01:01.94] There's nothin' you can't do (yeah) ('kay)
[01:06.18] Now you're in New York (a-ha, a-ha, a-ha) (uh, yeah)
[01:09.64] These streets will make you feel brand-new (new)
[01:12.71] Big lights will inspire you (come on) (okay)
[01:16.57] Let's hear it for New York (you're welcome, O.G.) (come on)
[01:20.33] New York (yeah), New York (uh) (I made you hot, nigga)
[01:22.62] Catch me at the X with O.G. at a Yankee game
[01:25.34] Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can
[01:28.26] You should know I bleed Blue, but I ain't a Crip, though
[01:31.17] But I got a gang of niggas walkin' with my clique though
[01:33.99] Welcome to the meltin' pot, corners where we sellin' rock
[01:36.68] Afrika Bambaataa shit, home of the hip-hop
[01:39.32] Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back
[01:42.02] For foreigners, it ain't fair, they act like they forgot how to add
[01:44.78] Eight million stories out there in the naked
[01:47.48] City, it's a pity half of y'all won't make it
[01:50.20] Me, I gotta plug Special Ed, "I Got It Made"
[01:53.10] If Jeezy's payin' LeBron, I'm payin' Dwyane Wade
[01:55.66] Three dice Cee Lo, three card Monte
[01:58.33] Labour Day Parade, rest in peace, Bob Marley
[02:01.26] Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade (c'mon, c'mon, c'mon)
[02:04.62] Long live the king, yo I'm from the Empire State, that's, that's
[02:08.35] In New York (ayy) (uh, yeah)
[02:10.25] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[02:14.08] There's nothin' you can't do (that boy good) (okay)
[02:17.67] Now you're in New York (uh, yeah)
[02:21.56] (Welcome to the bright light, baby)
[02:23.27] These streets will make you feel brand-new
[02:25.16] Big lights will inspire you (okay)
[02:27.82] Let's hear it for New York (come on)
[02:30.51] New York (yeah), New York (uh)
[02:33.05] Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
[02:37.84] So they can step out of bounds quick, the side lines is
[02:40.78] Lined with casualties who sip the life casually
[02:43.66] Then gradually become worse, don't bite the apple, Eve!
[02:46.49] Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in-style
[02:49.12] And when winter gets cold, en vogue with your skin out
[02:51.88] The city of sin is a pity on a whim
[02:54.53] Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them
[02:57.28] Mami took a bus trip, now she got her bust out
[03:00.45] Everybody ride her, just like a bus route
[03:03.13] "Hail Mary" to the city, you're a virgin
[03:05.67] And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church ends
[03:08.57] Came here for school, graduated to the high life
[03:11.25] Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
[03:14.06] MDMA got you feelin' like a champion (c'mon, c'mon, c'mon)
[03:16.96] The city never sleeps, better slip you a Ambien
[03:19.85] In New York (ayy, ah) (uh, yeah)
[03:22.16] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[03:25.92] There's nothin' you can't do (okay)
[03:28.89] Now you're in New York (uh, yeah)
[03:31.73] These streets will make you feel brand-new
[03:36.95] Big lights will inspire you (okay)
[03:40.34] Let's hear it for New York (come on)
[03:42.88] New York (yeah), New York (uh)
[03:45.33] One hand in the air for the big city
[03:50.32] Street lights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty
[03:53.04] No place in the world that could compare
[03:55.80] Put your lighters in the air, everybody say
[03:58.98] "Yeah, yeah" (come on, come on)
[04:01.27] "Yeah, yeah" (come on)
[04:03.12] In New York (uh, yeah) (oh)
[04:06.23] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[04:10.22] There's nothin' you can't do (okay)
[04:13.71] Now you're in New York (uh, yeah) (yeah)
[04:17.79] These streets will make you feel brand-new
[04:21.21] Big lights will inspire you (okay)
[04:24.43] Let's hear it for New York (come on)
[04:27.37] New York (yeah), New York (uh)
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