JAY-Z - Empire State Of Mind ft. Alicia Keys

(Empire State Of Mind by

Jay Z ft. Alicia Keys)

♪ Yeah I'm out that Brooklyn

now I'm down in Tribeca ♪

♪ Right next to De Niro

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 ♪

♪ Hola my Dominicanos ♪

♪ Right there up on Broadway ♪

♪ Brought me back to that McDonald's ♪

♪ Took it to my stash

spot 560 State 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 out that Bed-Stuy

home of that boy Biggie ♪

♪ Now I live on Billboard and

I brought my boys with me ♪

♪ Say what up to Ty Ty

still sipping Mai Tais ♪

♪ Sitting courtside Knicks

and Nets give me high fives ♪

♪ I be spiked out I could 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 ♪

♪ Catch me at the X with

OG at a Yankee game ♪

♪ 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 walking

with my clique though ♪

♪ Welcome to the melting pot ♪

♪ Corners where we're selling ♪

♪ Africa Bambaataa home of the hip-hop ♪

♪ Yellow cab gypsy cab

dollar cab holler back ♪

♪ For foreigners it ain't fair ♪

♪ They act like they forgot how to add ♪

♪ Eight million stories

out there in the naked ♪

♪ City it's a pity half

of y'all won't make it ♪

♪ Me I gotta plug Special

Ed I Got It Made ♪

♪ If Jeezy's paying LeBron

I'm paying Dwyane Wade ♪

♪ Three dice cee-lo three-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 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 ♪

♪ Lined with casualties

who sip the life casually ♪

♪ Then gradually become worse ♪

♪ Don't bite the apple Eve ♪

♪ Caught up in the in-crowd

now you're in-style ♪

♪ Into 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 ♪

♪ Mami 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're a 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 could compare ♪

♪ Put your lighters in

the air everybody say ♪

♪ Yeah yeah ♪

♪ Yeah yeah ♪

♪ 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 ♪