Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z, Alicia Keys
[00:08.92] Yeah
[00:11.85] Yeah, I'm out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca
[00:13.44] Right next to DeNiro, but I'll be hood forever
[00:17.42] I'm the new Sinatra, and since I made it here
[00:20.08] I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere
[00:22.73] I used to cop in Harlem, hola, my Dominicanos (dímelo)
[00:25.66] Right there up on Broadway, brought me back to that McDonald's
[00:28.31] Took it to my stashbox, 560 State Street
[00:31.24] Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whippin' pastry
[00:34.16] Cruisin' down 8th St, off-white Lexus
[00:36.81] Drivin' so slow, but BK is from Texas
[00:39.48] Me, I'm out that Bed-Stuy, home of that boy Biggie
[00:42.93] Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me
[00:45.31] Say what up to Ty-Ty, still sippin' Mai Tais
[00:47.98] Sittin' courtside, Knicks and Nets give me high five
[00:50.89] Nigga I be Spike'd out, I could trip a referee (come on, come on, come on)
[00:55.41] Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from
[00:57.00] In New York (ayy, ah-ha) (uh, yeah)
[00:59.93] Concrete jungle (yeah) where dreams are made of
[01:03.91] There's nothin' you can't do (yeah) (okay)
[01:07.37] Now you're in New York (ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha) (uh, yeah)
[01:11.88] These streets will make you feel brand new (new)
[01:15.33] Big lights will inspire you (come on) (okay)
[01:19.32] Let's hear it for New York (you're welcome, OG) (come on)
[01:20.38] New York (yeah), New York (uh) (I made you hot, nigga)
[01:25.42] Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
[01:27.55] Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous then a Yankee can
[01:30.47] You should know I bleed blue, but I ain't a Crip though
[01:33.40] But I got a gang of niggas walkin' with my clique though
[01:36.05] Welcome to the melting pot, corners where we sellin' rock
[01:38.98] Afrika Bambataa shit, home of the hip-hop
[01:41.36] Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back
[01:44.81] For foreigners it ain't fair, they act like they forgot how to act
[01:47.20] Eight million stories, out there in the naked
[01:50.66] City is a pity, half of y'all won't make it
[01:53.05] Me, I got a plug, Special Ed "I Got It Made"
[01:55.98] If Jeezy's payin' Lebron, I'm payin' Dwyane Wade
[01:58.10] Three dice Cee-lo, three-card Monte
[02:01.02] Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley
[02:03.94] Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade (come on, come on, come on)
[02:07.67] Long live the king yo, I'm from the Empire State that's
[02:09.52] In New York (ayy, ah-ha) (uh, yeah)
[02:13.51] Concrete jungle (yeah) where dreams are made of
[02:16.43] There's nothin' you can't do (that boy good) (okay)
[02:20.41] Now you're in New York (uh, yeah)
[02:24.92] (Welcome to the bright lights, baby)
[02:26.26] These streets will make you feel brand new
[02:27.32] Big lights will inspire you (okay)
[02:31.57] Let's hear it for New York (come on)
[02:32.90] New York (yeah), New York (uh)
[02:39.27] Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
[02:41.40] So they can step out of bounds quick, the sidelines is
[02:44.05] Lined with casualties, who sip the life casually
[02:47.24] Then gradually become worse, don't bite the apple, Eve
[02:49.90] Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in style
[02:52.55] End of the winter gets cold, en vogue, with your skin out
[02:54.94] City of sin, it's a pity on a whim
[02:58.93] Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them
[03:01.05] Mommy took a bus trip, now she got her bust out
[03:03.98] Everybody ride her, just like a bus route
[03:06.90] "Hail Mary" to the city, you're a virgin
[03:09.82] And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church end
[03:12.48] Came here for school, graduated to the high life
[03:15.13] Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
[03:18.58] MDMA got you feelin' like a champion (come on, come on, come on)
[03:21.51] The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien
[03:23.37] In New York (ayy, oh) (uh, yeah)
[03:26.82] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[03:30.53] There's nothin' you can't do (okay)
[03:34.00] Now you're in New York (uh, yeah)
[03:38.23] These streets will make you feel brand new
[03:41.96] Big lights will inspire you (okay)
[03:45.41] Let's hear it for New York (come on)
[03:46.74] New York (yeah), New York (uh)
[03:52.85] One hand in the air for the big city (uh)
[03:55.24] Street lights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty (uh)
[03:57.90] No place in the world that could compare
[04:00.29] Put your lighters in the air everybody say
[04:03.21] "Yeah, yeah" (come on, come on, come on)
[04:07.19] "Yeah, yeah"
[04:08.25] In New York (uh, yeah)
[04:19.68] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[04:21.80] There's nothin' you can't do (okay)
[04:22.33] Now you're in New York (uh, yeah)
[04:22.87] These streets will make you feel brand new
[04:28.97] Big lights will inspire you
[04:30.31] Let's hear it for New York (come on)
[04:31.37] New York (yeah), New York (uh)
