Empire State of Mind
[00:09.50] Yeah
[00:10.30] Yeah, I'm out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca
[00:13.23] Right next to De Niro, but I'll be hood forever
[00:15.89] I'm the new Sinatra, and since I made it here
[00:19.09] I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere
[00:21.74] I used to cop in Harlem, hola, my Dominicanos (dímelo)
[00:24.66] Right there up on Broadway, brought me back to that McDonald's
[00:27.58] Took it to my stashbox, 560 State Street
[00:30.24] Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whippin' pastry
[00:33.17] Cruisin' down 8th St, off-white Lexus
[00:36.10] Drivin' so slow, but BK is from Texas
[00:38.75] Me, I'm out that Bed-Stuy, home of that boy Biggie
[00:41.94] Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me
[00:44.60] Say what up to Ty-Ty, still sippin' Mai Tais
[00:47.52] Sittin' courtside, Knicks and Nets give me high five
[00:50.22] Nigga, I be Spike'd out, I could trip a referee (come on, come on, come on)
[00:53.15] Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from
[00:55.80] In New York (ayy, ah-ha) (uh, yeah)
[00:59.52] Concrete jungle (yeah) where dreams are made of
[01:03.55] There's nothin' you can't do (yeah) (okay)
[01:07.01] Now you're in New York (ah-ha, ah-ha, ah-ha) (uh, yeah)
[01:10.99] These streets will make you feel brand new (new)
[01:14.71] Big lights will inspire you (come on) (okay)
[01:17.89] Let's hear it for New York (you're welcome, OG) (uh)
[01:20.81] New York (yeah), New York (uh) (I made you hot, nigga)
[01:24.80] Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
[01:27.47] Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can
[01:30.39] You should know I bleed blue, but I ain't a Crip though
[01:33.06] But I got a gang of niggas walkin' with my clique though
[01:36.01] Welcome to the melting pot, corners where we sellin' rock
[01:38.66] Afrika Bambataa shit, home of the hip-hop
[01:41.59] Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back
[01:44.24] For foreigners it ain't fair, they act like they forgot how to act
[01:47.17] Eight million stories, out there in the naked
[01:50.12] 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"
[01:55.70] If Jeezy's payin' Lebron, I'm payin' Dwyane Wade
[01:58.09] Three dice Cee-lo, three-card Monte
[02:01.55] Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley
[02:04.48] Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade (come on, come on, come on)
[02:07.15] Long live the king, yo, I'm from the Empire State that's
[02:10.33] In New York (ayy) (uh, yeah)
[02:13.53] Concrete jungle (yeah) where dreams are made of
[02:17.50] There's nothin' you can't do (that boy good) (okay)
[02:20.96] Now you're in New York (uh, yeah)
[02:23.34] (Welcome to the bright lights, baby)
[02:25.76] These streets will make you feel brand new
[02:28.94] Big lights will inspire you (okay)
[02:32.12] Let's hear it for New York (uh)
[02:34.79] New York (yeah), New York (uh)
[02:39.56] Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
[02:41.99] So they can step out of bounds quick, the sidelines is
[02:44.91] Lined with casualties, who sip the life casually
[02:47.83] Then gradually become worse, don't bite the apple, Eve
[02:50.49] Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in style
[02:53.14] Into the winter gets cold, en vogue, with your skin out
[02:56.33] City of sin, it's a pity on a whim
[02:58.99] Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them
[03:01.65] Mommy took a bus trip, now she got her bust out
[03:04.83] Everybody ride her, just like a bus route
[03:08.02] "Hail Mary" to the city, you're a virgin
[03:10.68] And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church end
[03:13.33] Came here for school, graduated to the high life
[03:16.26] Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
[03:19.18] MDMA got you feelin' like a champion (come on, come on, come on)
[03:21.84] The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien
[03:24.51] In New York (ayy, oh) (uh, yeah)
[03:27.69] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[03:31.68] There's nothin' you can't do (okay)
[03:34.59] Now you're in New York (uh, yeah)
[03:39.68] These streets will make you feel brand new
[03:43.12] Big lights will inspire you (okay)
[03:46.06] Let's hear it for New York (uh)
[03:48.72] New York (yeah), New York (uh)
[03:54.07] One hand in the air for the big city (uh)
[03:56.45] Street lights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty (uh)
[03:59.38] No place in the world that could compare (nah)
[04:02.04] Put your lighters in the air everybody say
[04:04.69] "Yeah, yeah" (come on, come on, come on)
[04:07.34] "Yeah, yeah" (I'm from New York)
[04:10.03] In New York (uh, yeah) (ohh)
[04:12.96] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[04:17.22] There's nothin' you can't do (okay)
[04:20.67] Now you're in New York (uh, yeah)
[04:24.65] These streets will make you feel brand new
[04:28.66] Big lights will inspire you (okay)
[04:31.60] Let's hear it for New York (uh)
[04:34.53] New York (yeah), New York (uh)
