Empire State Of Mind
[00:09.42] Yeah I'm out that Brooklyn
[00:11.41] now I'm down in Tribeca
[00:12.92] Right next to DeNiro
[00:14.16] but I'll be hood forever
[00:15.67] I'm the new Sinatra
[00:16.91] and since I made it here
[00:18.41] I can make it anywhere
[00:19.66] yeah, they love me everywhere
[00:20.92] I used to cop in Harlem
[00:22.68] all of my Dominicanos
[00:23.92] Right there up on Broadway
[00:25.17] pull me back to that McDonald's
[00:26.66] Took it to my stash spot
[00:28.16] 560 State St.
[00:29.41] Catch me in the kitchen like
[00:30.67] the Simmons' whipping Pastry
[00:33.17] Cruisin' down 8th St.,
[00:34.16] off-white Lexus
[00:35.16] Drivin' so slow,
[00:35.92] but BK is from Texas
[00:37.67] Me, I'm out that Bed-Stuy
[00:39.17] home of that boy Biggie
[00:40.41] Now I live on Billboard
[00:41.92] and I brought my boys with me
[00:43.42] Say what up to TyTy
[00:44.67] still sippin' Mai Tai's
[00:45.91] Sittin' courtside
[00:47.17] Knicks & Nets give me high five
[00:48.66] Nigga, I be spiked out
[00:50.16] I could trip a referee
[00:51.42] Tell by my attitude
[00:52.92] that I'm most definitely from....
[00:54.41] New York
[00:57.92] concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[01:01.42] There's nothin' you can't do
[01:04.17] Now you're in New York
[01:09.17] These streets will make you feel brand new
[01:12.66] The lights will inspire you
[01:15.41] Let's hear it for New York, New York,
[01:19.42] New York
[01:22.42] Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
[01:24.91] Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous then a Yankee can
[01:27.66] You should know I bleed blue
[01:29.16] but I ain't a Crip though
[01:30.42] But I got a gang of niggas walkin' with my clique though
[01:33.16] Welcome to the melting pot,
[01:34.66] corners where we sellin' rock
[01:35.92] Afrika Bambataa shit, home of the hip-hop
[01:38.68] Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back
[01:41.17] For foreigners it ain't fair
[01:42.92] they act like they forgot how to add
[01:44.16] 8 million stories, out there in the naked
[01:46.91] City it's a pity, half of y'all won't make it
[01:49.92] Me, I got a plug Special Ed "I Got It Made"
[01:52.16] If Jeezy's payin' LeBron, I'm payin' Dwyane Wade
[01:55.17] Three dice Cee-lo, three Card Molly
[01:57.92] Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley
[02:00.67] Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade
[02:03.66] Long live the King yo, I'm from the Empire State that's
[02:07.16] New York
[02:09.92] concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[02:13.42] There's nothin' you can't do
[02:16.17] Now you're in New York
[02:20.92] These streets will make you feel brand new
[02:24.41] The lights will inspire you
[02:27.66] Let's hear it for New York, New York,
[02:31.67] New York
[02:34.16] Lights is blinding
[02:36.16] girls need blinders
[02:37.42] Or they could step out of bounds quick,
[02:39.17] the sidelines is
[02:40.17] Lined with casualties
[02:41.66] who sip to life casually
[02:42.92] Then gradually become worse
[02:44.42] don't bite the apple, Eve
[02:45.91] Caught up in the in-crowd
[02:47.41] now you're in style
[02:48.41] Anna Wintour gets cold
[02:49.66] in Vogue with your skin out
[02:51.42] City of sin
[02:52.67] it's a pity on a whim
[02:53.92] Good girls gone bad
[02:55.17] the city's filled with them
[02:56.91] Mommy took a bus trip
[02:58.42] now she got her bust out
[02:59.66] Everybody ride her
[03:01.17] just like a bus route
[03:02.41] Hail Mary to the city, you're a virgin
[03:05.16] And Jesus can't save you
[03:06.16] life starts when the church end
[03:07.92] Came here for school, graduated to the high life
[03:10.67] Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
[03:13.42] MDMA got you feelin' like a champion
[03:16.17] The city never sleeps
[03:17.42] better slip you an Ambien
[03:18.92] New York
[03:21.92] concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[03:25.17] There's nothin' you can't do
[03:28.66] Now you're in New York
[03:32.91] These streets will make you feel brand new
[03:36.42] The lights will inspire you
[03:39.67] Let's hear it for New York, New York,
[03:43.66] New York
[03:46.92] One hand in the air for the big city
[03:49.67] Street lights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty
[03:52.42] No place in the world that could compare
[03:55.17] Put your lighters in the air
[03:56.91] Everybody say "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah" (c'mon, c'mon)
[04:02.67] I'm from...
[04:05.92] New York
[04:06.42] concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[04:09.91] There's nothin' you can't do
[04:13.16] Now you're in New York
[04:17.67] These streets will make you feel brand new
[04:20.92] The lights will inspire you
[04:23.91] Let's hear it for New York, New York,
[04:28.16] New York
