Jay-Z & Alicia Keys ☆ Empire State Of Mind

Yeah
Yeah I’m out that Brooklyn
Now I’m down in TriBeCa
Right next to DeNiro
But I’ll be hood forever
I’m the new Sinatra
And since I made it here
I can make it anywhere
Yeah they love me everywhere
I used to cop in Harlem
All of my Dominicanos
Right there up on Broadway
Brought me back to that McDonalds
Took it to my stash spot
Five sixty stage street
Catch me in the kitchen like a
Simmons whipping Pastry
Cruising down 8th street
Off white Lexus
Driving so slow but BK is from Texas
Me I’m up at Bed Stuy
Home of that boy Biggie
Now I live on Billboard
And I brought my boys with me
Say wat up to Ty Ty
still sipping Malta
Sittin courtside Knicks and
Nets give me high fives
Nigga I be spiked out
I can trip a referee
Tell by my attitude
that I’m most definitely from
In New York
Concrete jungle
where dreams are made of
There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These streets will make you feel
brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Let’s hear it for
New York New York New York
I made you hot nigga
Catch me at the X with OG at a
Yankee game
Shit I made the
Yankee hat more famous than a
Yankee can
You should know I bleed blue
but I ain’t a crip though
But I got a gang of niggas
walking with my click though
Welcome to the meltin pot
Corners where we sellin rocks
Afrika Bambaataa shit
Home of the hip hop
Yellow cap gypsy cap
dollar cab holla back
For foreigners it
ain’t for they act
like they forgot how to act
8 million stories
out there and their naked
City is a pity half of
y’all won’t make it
Me I gotta plug special Ed
I got it made
If Jesus payin
Lebron I’m paying Dwayne Wade
Three dice cee lo three card molly
Labor day parade
rest in peace Bob Marley
Statue of Liberty
long live the World Trade
Long live the king yo
I’m from the Empire State that’s
In New York
Concrete jungle
where dreams are made of
There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These streets will
make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Let’s hear it for
New York New York New York
Lights is blinding
Girls need blinders
So they can step out of bounds
quick the side lines is
blind with casualties
Who sippin life casually
then gradually become worse
Don’t bite the apple eve
Caught up in the in crowd
Now you’re in style
And in the winter gets cold en
vogue with your skin out
city of sin is a pity on a whim good
girls gone bad
the city’s filled with them
Mommy took a bus trip
now she got her bust out
Everybody ride her
just like a bus route
Hail Mary to the
city you’re a virgin
And Jesus can’t save you
life starts when the church end
Came here for school
graduated to the high life
Ball players rap stars
addicted to the limelight
MDMA got you feeling like a champion
The city never sleeps
better slip you an Ambien
In New York
Concrete jungle
where dreams are made of
There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These streets will
make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Let’s hear it for
New York New York New York
One hand in the air for the big city
Street lights big
dreams all looking pretty
No place in the world
that can compare
Put your lighters in the air
everybody say yeaa yeaa
Come on
yeaa yeaa
Come on
In New York
Concrete jungle
where dreams are made of
There’s nothing you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
These streets will
make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
Let’s hear it for
New York New York New York