Empire State of Mind - JAY-Z/Alicia Keys.mp3

[00:00.000]Yeah, I’mma up at Brooklyn
[00:02.717]Now I’m down in Tribeca
[00:03.963]Right next to DeNiro
[00:05.941]Now I’m down at Brooklyn
[00:08.435]Now I’m down at Tribeca
[00:09.678]Right next to DeNiro
[00:10.932]But I’ll be hood forever
[00:12.439]I’m the new Sinatra
[00:13.671]And since I made it here
[00:15.189]I can make it anywhere
[00:16.679]Yeah they love me everywhere
[00:17.932]I used to cop in Harlem
[00:19.198]All of my dominicanos
[00:20.682]Right there up on broad way
[00:21.694]Brought me back to that McDonalds
[00:22.923]Took it to my stash spot
[00:25.076]Five Sixty Stage street
[00:26.323]Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whipping pastry
[00:28.819]Cruising down 8th street
[00:32.322]Off white Lexus
[00:33.320]Driving so slow but BK is from Texas
[00:35.089]Me I’m up at Beasty
[00:37.072]Home of that boy Biggie
[00:38.324]Now I live on billboard
[00:39.568]And I brought my boys with me
[00:41.548]Say wat up to Ty Ty, still sipping Malta
[00:43.289]Sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives
[00:44.297]Bitch I be spiked out, I can trip a referee
[00:45.793]Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from
[00:52.035]In New York
[00:54.781]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[00:58.785]There’s nothing you can’t do
[01:01.531]Now you’re in New York
[01:05.756]These streets will make you feel brand new
[01:09.762]The lights will inspire you
[01:13.954]Let’s here it for New York, New York, New York
[01:15.962]I made you hot bitch
[01:20.463]Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
[01:22.456]**** I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can
[01:24.198]You should know I bleed Blue, but I ain’t a Crip though
[01:27.470]But I got a gang of i-ggas walking with my click though
[01:30.463]Welcome to the melting pot
[01:31.965]Corners where we selling rocks
[01:33.467]Africa bambaataa shit
[01:34.969]Home of the hip hop
[01:36.222]Yellow cap, gypsy cap, dollar cab, holla back
[01:38.708]For foreigners it ain’t fitted they forgot how to act
[01:40.705]8 million stories out there and their naked
[01:44.211]Cities is a pity half of y’all won’t make it
[01:46.961]Me I gotta plug Special Ed “I got it made”
[01:49.956]If Jesus paying LeBron, I’m paying Dwayne Wade
[01:51.711]3 dice cee-lo
[01:54.194]3 card Marley
[01:56.462]Labor day parade, rest in peace Bob Marley
[01:58.213]Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade
[02:01.208]Long live the king yo
[02:04.614]I’m from the empire state that’s
[02:04.864]In New York
[02:08.791]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[02:11.299]There’s nothing you can’t do
[02:14.294]Now you’re in New York
[02:18.046]These streets will make you feel brand new
[02:21.801]The lights will inspire you
[02:26.057]Let’s here it for New York, New York, New York