Jay Z Alicia Keys Empire State of Mind
[00:25.47] Ooh, New York
[00:33.50] Ooh, New York
[00:41.28] Grew up in a town that is famous as a place of movie scenes
[00:51.58] Noise is always loud, there are sirens all around and the streets are mean
[01:01.86] If I can make it here, I can make it anywhere, that's what they say
[01:12.90] Seeing my face in lights or my name in marquees found down on Broadway
[01:22.43] Even if it ain't all it seems, I got a pocketful of dreams
[01:26.70] Baby I'm from New York
[01:31.21] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[01:33.98] There's nothing you can't do
[01:37.49] Now you're in New York
[01:40.75] These streets will make you feel brand new
[01:44.02] Big lights will inspire you
[01:46.52] Hear it for New York, New York, New YorkYeah, I'm out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca
[01:57.32] Right next to DeNiro, but I'll be hood forever
[01:57.82] I'm the new Sinatra, and since I made it here
[02:00.08] I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere
[02:02.83] I used to cop in Harlem, hola, my Dominicanos (dímelo)
[02:05.85] Right there up on Broadway, brought me back to that McDonald's
[02:09.11] Took it to my stashbox, 560 State Street
[02:10.62] Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whippin' pastry
[02:13.14] Cruisin' down 8th St, off-white Lexus
[02:16.39] Drivin' so slow, but BK is from Texas
[02:18.66] Me, I'm out that Bed-Stuy, home of that boy Biggie
[02:20.92] Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me
[02:23.92] Say what up to Ty-Ty, still sippin' Mai Tais
[02:26.43] Sittin' courtside, Knicks and Nets give me high five
[02:28.94] Nigga I be Spike'd out, I could trip a referee (come on, come on, come on)
[02:31.20] Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from
[02:34.21] In New York (ayy, ah-ha) (uh, yeah)
[02:37.47] Concrete jungle (yeah) where dreams are made of
[02:40.98] There's nothin' you can't do (yeah) (okay)
[02:43.74] Now you're in New York (ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha) (uh, yeah)
[02:49.51] These streets will make you feel brand new (new)
[02:51.02] Big lights will inspire you (come on) (okay)
[02:53.77] Let's hear it for New York (you're welcome, OG) (come on)
[03:00.04] New York (yeah), New York (uh) (I made you hot, nigga)Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
[03:02.05] Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous then a Yankee can
[03:04.31] You should know I bleed blue, but I ain't a Crip though
[03:07.58] But I got a gang of niggas walkin' with my clique though
[03:09.84] Welcome to the melting pot, corners where we sellin' rock
[03:12.35] Afrika Bambataa shit, home of the hip-hop
[03:14.85] Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back
[03:17.62] For foreigners it ain't fair, they act like they forgot how to act
[03:19.87] Eight million stories, out there in the naked
[03:22.63] City is a pity, half of y'all won't make it
[03:25.39] Me, I got a plug, Special Ed "I Got It Made"
[03:27.40] If Jeezy's payin' Lebron, I'm payin' Dwyane Wade
[03:30.41] Three dice Cee-lo, three-card Monte
[03:33.17] Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley
[03:35.68] Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade (come on, come on, come on)
[03:37.94] Long live the king yo, I'm from the Empire State that'sIn New York (ayy, ah-ha) (uh, yeah)
[03:43.96] Concrete jungle (yeah) where dreams are made of
[03:47.73] There's nothin' you can't do (that boy good) (okay)
[03:50.49] Now you're in New York (uh, yeah)
[03:54.00] (Welcome to the bright lights, baby)
[03:54.75] These streets will make you feel brand new
[03:57.77] Big lights will inspire you (okay)
[04:00.78] Let's hear it for New York (come on)
[04:02.78] New York (yeah), New York (uh)One hand in the air for the big city
[04:09.81] Street lights, big dreams, all looking pretty
[04:12.32] No place in the world that can compare
[04:15.58] Put your lighters in the air, everybody say
[04:17.59] Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
[04:22.60] In New York
[04:26.11] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[04:29.37] There's nothing you can't do
[04:31.89] Now you're in New York
[04:36.40] These streets will make you feel brand new
[04:39.17] Big lights will inspire you
[04:42.18] Hear it for New York
