Empire state of mind
[00:11.62] Yea, yea I'm out that Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca
[00:13.86] Right next to DeNiro, but I'll be hood forever
[00:16.38] I'm the new Sinatra, and, since I made it here
[00:19.61] I can make it anywhere, yea, they love me everywhere I used to cop in Harlem,
[00:23.38] All of my Dominicano's right there up on Broadway,
[00:25.63] Pull me back to that McDonald's, took it to my stashbox, 560 State St.
[00:28.87] Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons wippin' pastry's
[00:33.37] Cruisin' down 8th St., off white Lexus
[00:35.87] Drivin' so slow, but BK is from Texas
[00:38.62] Me, I'm out that Bed-Stuy, home of that boy Biggie
[00:41.62] Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me
[00:44.63] Say whattup to Ty-Ty, still sippin' Mai Tai's
[00:47.12] Sittin' courtside, Knicks and Nets give me high five
[00:49.61] Nigga I be Spike'd out, I could trip a referee
[00:52.62] Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from
[00:56.11] In New York,
[00:59.12] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[01:02.60] There's nothin' you can't do
[01:05.86] Now you're in New York
[01:10.11] These streets will make you feel brand new
[01:14.11] Big lights will inspire you
[01:17.11] Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York
[01:22.61] Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
[01:26.38] Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous then a Yankee can
[01:28.86] You should know I bleed blue, but I ain't a Crip though
[01:31.62] But I got a gang of niggas walkin' with my clique though
[01:34.64] Welcome to the melting pot, corners where we sellin' rock
[01:37.13] Afrika Bambataa shit, home of the hip-hop
[01:39.87] Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back
[01:42.60] For foreigners it ain't for, they act like they forgot how to act
[01:45.65] Eight million stories, out there in it naked
[01:48.11] City is a pity, half of y'all won't make it
[01:50.89] Me, I got a plug, Special Ed "I Got It Made"
[01:53.87] If Jesus payin' Lebron, I'm payin' Dwyane Wade
[01:56.62] Three dice cee-lo, three card monte
[01:59.11] Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley
[02:02.88] Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade
[02:06.61] Long live the King yo, I'm from the Empire St. that's
[02:08.36] In New York,
[02:11.36] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[02:15.11] There's nothin' you can't do
[02:17.61] Now you're in New York
[02:22.36] These streets will make you feel brand new
[02:26.39] Big lights will inspire you
[02:29.12] Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York
[02:34.62] Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
[02:38.38] So they can step out of bounds quick, the sidelines is
[02:41.38] Lined with casualties, who sip to life casually
[02:43.11] Then gradually become worse, don't bite the apple, Eve
[02:47.12] Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in style
[02:49.64] End of the winter gets cold, en vogue, with your skin out
[02:52.62] City of sin, it's a pity on the whim
[02:55.11] Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them
[02:58.10] Mommy took a bus trip, now she got her bust out
[03:00.87] Everybody ride her, just like a bus route
[03:03.89] Hail Mary to the city, you're a virgin
[03:06.62] And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church end
[03:09.36] Came here for school, graduated to the high life
[03:11.86] Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
[03:14.61] MDMA got you feelin' like a champion
[03:17.60] The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien
[03:20.39] In New York,
[03:23.12] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[03:26.62] There's nothin' you can't do
[03:29.62] Now you're in New York
[03:34.12] These streets will make you feel brand new
[03:38.39] Big lights will inspire you
[03:41.12] Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York
[03:48.37] One hand in the air for the big city
[03:50.87] Street lights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty
[03:53.62] No place in the world that could compare
[03:56.36] Put your lighters in the air everybody say yeah, yeah,
[04:00.36] Yea, yea
[04:01.38] In New York,
[04:07.36] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[04:11.36] There's nothin' you can't do
[04:14.38] Now you're in New York
[04:19.62] These streets will make you feel brand new
[04:22.36] Big lights will inspire you
[04:24.87] Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York
