[00:09.75] Yeah, I'm out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca
[00:13.73] Right next to De Niro, but I'll be hood forever
[00:16.39] I'm the new Sinatra, and since I made it here
[00:19.30] I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere
[00:21.96] I used to cop in Harlem–hola, my Dominicanos (Dimelo!)
[00:24.79] Right there up on Broadway, brought me back to that McDonald's
[00:27.45] Took it to my stash spot, 560 State Street
[00:30.36] Catch me in the kitchen, like a Simmons whippin' pastry
[00:33.02] Cruisin' down 8th Street, off-white Lexus
[00:35.68] Drivin' so slow, but BK is from Texas
[00:38.60] Me? I'm out that Bed-Stuy, home of that boy Biggie
[00:41.16] Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me
[00:44.09] Say what up to Ty Ty, still sippin' Mai Tais
[00:46.74] Sittin' courtside, Knicks and Nets give me high fives
[00:49.66] Nigga, I be spiked out, I could trip a referee
[00:52.33] Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from
[00:55.51] In New York (Ayy, aha) (Uh, yeah)
[00:58.61] Concrete jungle (Yeah) where dreams are made of
[01:02.33] There's nothin' you can't do (Yeah) (Okay)
[01:05.52] Now you're in New York (Aha, aha, aha) (Uh, yeah)
[01:10.03] These streets will make you feel brand-new (New)
[01:13.22] Big lights will inspire you (Come on) (Okay)
[01:16.41] Let's hear it for New York (You welcome, OG) (Uh)
[01:20.30] New York (Yeah), New York (Uh) (I made you hot, nigga)
[01:23.22] Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
[01:25.61] Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can
[01:28.53] You should know I bleed blue, but I ain't a Crip though
[01:31.19] But I got a gang of niggas walkin' with my clique though
[01:34.10] Welcome to the meltin' pot, corners where we sellin' rock
[01:37.03] Afrika Bambaataa shit, home of the hip-hop
[01:39.68] Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back
[01:42.60] For foreigners, it ain't fair, they act like they forgot how to add
[01:45.26] Eight million stories out there in the naked
[01:47.66] City, it's a pity half of y'all won't make it
[01:50.57] Me? I gotta plug Special Ed, "I Got It Made"
[01:52.97] If Jeezy's payin' LeBron, I'm payin' Dwyane Wade
[01:55.88] Three dice cee-lo, three-card Marley
[01:58.81] Labor Day Parade—rest in peace, Bob Marley
[02:01.47] Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade
[02:02.97] Long live the king, yo—I'm from the Empire State, that's
[02:07.22] In New York (Ayy) (Uh, yeah)
[02:10.60] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[02:14.32] There's nothin' you can't do (That boy good) (Okay)
[02:17.24] Now you're in New York (Welcome to the bright lights, baby) (Uh, yeah)
[02:22.02] These streets will make you feel brand-new
[02:25.47] Big lights will inspire you (Okay)
[02:28.39] Let's hear it for New York (Uh)
[02:31.04] New York (Yeah), New York (Uh)
[02:35.30] Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
[02:38.22] So they can step out of bounds quick, the side lines is
[02:41.41] Lined with casualties who sip the life casually
[02:43.53] Then gradually become worse – don't bite the apple, Eve!
[02:46.72] Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in-style
[02:48.85] Into the winter gets cold, en vogue with your skin out
[02:52.30] City of sin is a pity on a whim
[02:54.70] Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them
[02:57.61] Mami, took a bus trip, now she got her bust out
[03:00.27] Everybody ride her, just like a bus route
[03:03.45] "Hail Mary" to the city, you're a virgin
[03:05.85] And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church end
[03:09.04] Came here for school, graduated to the high life
[03:11.42] Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
[03:14.61] MDMA got you feelin' like a champion
[03:16.74] The city never sleeps, better slip you a Ambien
[03:19.39] In New York (Ayy, ow) (Uh, yeah)
[03:22.58] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[03:26.29] There's nothin' you can't do (Okay)
[03:29.49] Now you're in New York (Uh, yeah)
[03:34.01] These streets will make you feel brand-new
[03:37.46] Big lights will inspire you (Okay)
[03:40.38] Let's hear it for New York (Uh)
[03:42.95] New York (Yeah), New York (Uh)
[03:47.99] One hand in the air for the big city (Oh)
[03:50.65] Street lights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty (Oh)
[03:53.31] No place in the world that could compare (Nah)
[03:55.97] Put your lighters in the air, everybody say
[03:58.62] "Yeah, yeah" (Come on, come on)
[04:01.02] "Yeah, yeah" (Come on)
[04:02.87] In New York (Uh, yeah)
[04:06.88] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[04:10.61] There's nothin' you can't do (Okay)
[04:13.52] Now you're in New York (Uh, yeah)
[04:18.05] These streets will make you feel brand-new
[04:21.76] Big lights will inspire you (Okay)
[04:24.95] Let's hear it for New York (Uh)
[04:27.50] New York (Yeah), New York (Uh)
