Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys ☆ Empire State of Mind (Explicit Version)

Yeah Yeah Imma up at Brooklyn
now Im 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 Bedsty
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 sitting courtside Knicks
and Nets give me high fives
Nigga i be spiked out
i can trip a referee
tell by my attitude that
I most definitely from In New York
Concrete jungle where dreams are
made of Theres nothing you can’t
do Now you’re in New York
these streets will make you
feel brand new the lights
will inspire you lets here it
for New York New York New York
Catch me at the X with O G at
a Yankee game shat i made the
yankee hat more famous than
a yankee can you should know
I bleed Blue but I aint a crip tho
but i got a gang of niggas walking
with my click though
welcome to the melting pot
corners where we selling rocks
afrika bambaataa shat
home of the hip hop
yellow cap gypsy cap dollar
cab holla back for foreigners it
aint fitted they forgot how to act
8 million stories out there
and their naked cities is a
pity half of y’all won’t make it
me i gotta plug a special
and i got it made If Jesus payin
LeBron I’m paying Dwayne Wade
3 dice cee lo 3 card marley
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 thats
In New York Concrete jungle
where dreams are made of
Theres nothing you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
these streets will make you feel
brand new the lights will inspire
you lets here 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 sipping life casually
then gradually become worse
don’t bite the apple Eve
caught up in the in crowd
now your in style and in the winter
gets cold en vogue with your
skin out the city of sin is a pity
on a whim good girls gone bad
the city’s filled with them
Mommy took a bus trip
and now she got her bust out
everybody ride her
just like a bus route
Hail Mary to the city your a Virgin
and Jesus can’t save you life
starts when the church ends
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 a Ambien In New York
Concrete jungle where dreams are
made of Theres nothing you can’t do
Now you’re in New York
these streets will make you feel
brand new the lights will inspire
you lets here 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

In New York
Concrete jungle where dreams are
made of Theres nothing you cant do
Now you in New York
these streets will make you
feel brand new the lights will
inspire you lets here it for
New York New York New York