Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind
[00:09.20] Yeah
[00:10.53] Yeah, I'm out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca
[00:12.92] Right next to DeNiro, but I'll be hood forever
[00:15.84] I'm the new Sinatra, and since I made it here
[00:18.76] I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere
[00:21.42] I used to cop in Harlem, hola, my Dominicanos (dímelo)
[00:24.61] Right there up on Broadway, brought me back to that McDonald's
[00:27.00] Took it to my stashbox, 560 State Street
[00:29.65] Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whippin' pastry
[00:32.31] Cruisin' down 8th St, off-white Lexus
[00:34.97] Drivin' so slow, but BK is from Texas
[00:37.62] Me, I'm out that Bed-Stuy, home of that boy Biggie
[00:40.81] Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me
[00:43.73] Say what up to Ty-Ty, still sippin' Mai Tais
[00:46.92] Sittin' courtside, Knicks and Nets give me high five
[00:49.05] Nigga I be Spike'd out, I could trip a referee (come on, come on, come on)
[00:53.83] Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from
[00:55.15] In New York (ayy, ah-ha) (uh, yeah)
[00:57.81] Concrete jungle (yeah) where dreams are made of
[01:01.80] There's nothin' you can't do (yeah) (okay)
[01:04.45] Now you're in New York (ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha) (uh, yeah)
[01:09.23] These streets will make you feel brand new (new)
[01:12.69] Big lights will inspire you (come on) (okay)
[01:15.61] Let's hear it for New York (you're welcome, OG) (come on)
[01:22.78] New York (yeah), New York (uh) (I made you hot, nigga)
[01:23.31] Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
[01:25.44] Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous then a Yankee can
[01:27.83] You should know I bleed blue, but I ain't a Crip though
[01:30.48] But I got a gang of niggas walkin' with my clique though
[01:33.14] Welcome to the melting pot, corners where we sellin' rock
[01:36.06] Afrika Bambataa shit, home of the hip-hop
[01:38.72] Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back
[01:41.37] For foreigners it ain't fair, they act like they forgot how to act
[01:44.30] Eight million stories, out there in the naked
[01:46.95] City is a pity, half of y'all won't make it
[01:49.87] Me, I got a plug, Special Ed "I Got It Made"
[01:52.53] If Jeezy's payin' Lebron, I'm payin' Dwyane Wade
[01:55.72] Three dice Cee-lo, three-card Monte
[01:58.11] Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley
[02:01.03] Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade (come on, come on, come on)
[02:05.28] Long live the king yo, I'm from the Empire State that's
[02:06.87] In New York (ayy, ah-ha) (uh, yeah)
[02:09.79] Concrete jungle (yeah) where dreams are made of
[02:13.78] There's nothin' you can't do (that boy good) (okay)
[02:17.50] Now you're in New York (uh, yeah)
[02:20.95] (Welcome to the bright lights, baby)
[02:21.75] These streets will make you feel brand new
[02:24.67] Big lights will inspire you (okay)
[02:27.33] Let's hear it for New York (come on)
[02:29.98] New York (yeah), New York (uh)
[02:34.50] Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
[02:37.69] So they can step out of bounds quick, the sidelines is
[02:40.34] Lined with casualties, who sip the life casually
[02:43.00] Then gradually become worse, don't bite the apple, Eve
[02:45.92] Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in style
[02:48.31] End of the winter gets cold, en vogue, with your skin out
[02:51.76] City of sin, it's a pity on a whim
[02:53.89] Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them
[02:57.08] Mommy took a bus trip, now she got her bust out
[02:59.73] Everybody ride her, just like a bus route
[03:02.65] "Hail Mary" to the city, you're a virgin
[03:05.31] And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church end
[03:08.23] Came here for school, graduated to the high life
[03:10.89] Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
[03:13.54] MDMA got you feelin' like a champion (come on, come on, come on)
[03:16.47] The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien
[03:18.33] In New York (ayy, oh) (uh, yeah)
[03:21.78] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[03:25.76] There's nothin' you can't do (okay)
[03:28.69] Now you're in New York (uh, yeah)
[03:33.20] These streets will make you feel brand new
[03:37.18] Big lights will inspire you (okay)
[03:39.58] Let's hear it for New York (come on)
[03:43.29] New York (yeah), New York (uh)
[03:47.01] One hand in the air for the big city (uh)
[03:50.20] Street lights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty (uh)
[03:52.86] No place in the world that could compare
[03:55.51] Put your lighters in the air everybody say
[03:57.90] "Yeah, yeah" (come on, come on, come on)
[04:00.56] "Yeah, yeah"
[04:02.69] In New York (uh, yeah)
[04:06.14] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[04:09.86] There's nothin' you can't do (okay)
[04:13.04] Now you're in New York (uh, yeah)
[04:17.56] These streets will make you feel brand new
[04:21.01] Big lights will inspire you
[04:23.94] Let's hear it for New York (come on)
[04:26.86] New York (yeah), New York (uh)
