JAY-Z - Empire State Of Mind ft. Alicia Keys [vk6014HuxcE]
[00:10.12] Yeah I'm out that Brooklyn
[00:12.11] now I'm down in Tribeca
[00:13.62] Right next to DeNiro
[00:14.86] but I'll be hood forever
[00:16.37] I'm the new Sinatra
[00:17.61] and since I made it here
[00:19.11] I can make it anywhere
[00:20.36] yeah, they love me everywhere
[00:21.62] I used to cop in Harlem
[00:23.38] all of my Dominicanos
[00:24.62] Right there up on Broadway
[00:25.87] pull me back to that McDonald's
[00:27.36] Took it to my stash spot
[00:28.86] 560 State St.
[00:30.11] Catch me in the kitchen like
[00:31.37] the Simmons' whipping Pastry
[00:33.87] Cruisin' down 8th St.,
[00:34.86] off-white Lexus
[00:35.86] Drivin' so slow,
[00:36.62] but BK is from Texas
[00:38.37] Me, I'm out that Bed-Stuy
[00:39.87] home of that boy Biggie
[00:41.11] Now I live on Billboard
[00:42.62] and I brought my boys with me
[00:44.12] Say what up to TyTy
[00:45.37] still sippin' Mai Tai's
[00:46.61] Sittin' courtside
[00:47.87] Knicks & Nets give me high five
[00:49.36] Nigga, I be spiked out
[00:50.86] I could trip a referee
[00:52.12] Tell by my attitude
[00:53.62] that I'm most definitely from....
[00:55.11] New York
[00:58.62] concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[01:02.12] There's nothin' you can't do
[01:04.87] Now you're in New York
[01:09.87] These streets will make you feel brand new
[01:13.36] The lights will inspire you
[01:16.11] Let's hear it for New York, New York,
[01:20.12] New York
[01:23.12] Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
[01:25.61] Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous then a Yankee can
[01:28.36] You should know I bleed blue
[01:29.86] but I ain't a Crip though
[01:31.12] But I got a gang of niggas walkin' with my clique though
[01:33.86] Welcome to the melting pot,
[01:35.36] corners where we sellin' rock
[01:36.62] Afrika Bambataa shit, home of the hip-hop
[01:39.38] Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back
[01:41.87] For foreigners it ain't fair
[01:43.62] they act like they forgot how to add
[01:44.86] 8 million stories, out there in the naked
[01:47.61] City it's a pity, half of y'all won't make it
[01:50.62] Me, I got a plug Special Ed "I Got It Made"
[01:52.86] If Jeezy's payin' LeBron, I'm payin' Dwyane Wade
[01:55.87] Three dice Cee-lo, three Card Molly
[01:58.62] Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley
[02:01.37] Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade
[02:04.36] Long live the King yo, I'm from the Empire State that's
[02:07.86] New York
[02:10.62] concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[02:14.12] There's nothin' you can't do
[02:16.87] Now you're in New York
[02:21.62] These streets will make you feel brand new
[02:25.11] The lights will inspire you
[02:28.36] Let's hear it for New York, New York,
[02:32.37] New York
[02:34.86] Lights is blinding
[02:36.86] girls need blinders
[02:38.12] Or they could step out of bounds quick,
[02:39.87] the sidelines is
[02:40.87] Lined with casualties
[02:42.36] who sip to life casually
[02:43.62] Then gradually become worse
[02:45.12] don't bite the apple, Eve
[02:46.61] Caught up in the in-crowd
[02:48.11] now you're in style
[02:49.11] Anna Wintour gets cold
[02:50.36] in Vogue with your skin out
[02:52.12] City of sin
[02:53.37] it's a pity on a whim
[02:54.62] Good girls gone bad
[02:55.87] the city's filled with them
[02:57.61] Mommy took a bus trip
[02:59.12] now she got her bust out
[03:00.36] Everybody ride her
[03:01.87] just like a bus route
[03:03.11] Hail Mary to the city, you're a virgin
[03:05.86] And Jesus can't save you
[03:06.86] life starts when the church end
[03:08.62] Came here for school, graduated to the high life
[03:11.37] Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
[03:14.12] MDMA got you feelin' like a champion
[03:16.87] The city never sleeps
[03:18.12] better slip you an Ambien
[03:19.62] New York
[03:22.62] concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[03:25.87] There's nothin' you can't do
[03:29.36] Now you're in New York
[03:33.61] These streets will make you feel brand new
[03:37.12] The lights will inspire you
[03:40.37] Let's hear it for New York, New York,
[03:44.36] New York
[03:47.62] One hand in the air for the big city
[03:50.37] Street lights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty
[03:53.12] No place in the world that could compare
[03:55.87] Put your lighters in the air
[03:57.61] Everybody say "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" (c'mon, c'mon)
[04:03.37] I'm from...
[04:06.62] New York
[04:07.12] concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[04:10.61] There's nothin' you can't do
[04:13.86] Now you're in New York
[04:18.37] These streets will make you feel brand new
[04:21.62] The lights will inspire you
[04:24.61] Let's hear it for New York, New York,
[04:28.86] New York
