Empire State Of Mind-JAY-Z/Alicia Keys

[00:00.000] [00:09.470]Yeah [00:10.440]Yeah, I'm out that Brooklyn [00:11.630]Now I'm down in Tribeca [00:13.020]Right next to DeNiro [00:14.360]But I’ll be hood forever [00:15.960]I’m the new Sinatra [00:17.190]And since I made it here [00:18.350]I can make it anywhere [00:20.270]Yeah, they love me everywhere [00:21.460]I used to cop in Harlem [00:22.740]Hola my Dominicanos [00:24.140]Right there up on Broadway [00:25.740]Brought me back to that McDonalds [00:26.990]Took it to my stash spot [00:28.210]560 State street [00:29.550]Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whipping pastry [00:32.520]Cruising down 8th street [00:33.810]Off-white Lexus [00:35.300]Driving so slow but BK is from Texas [00:38.020]Me I’m out that Bed-Stuy [00:39.350]Home of that boy Biggie [00:40.700]Now I live on Billboard [00:42.130]And I brought my boys with me [00:43.700]Say what up to Ty Ty, still sipping mai tais [00:46.510]Sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives [00:49.200]B***h I be Spiked out, I can trip a referee [00:51.890]Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from [00:55.220]In New York [00:57.950]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of [01:01.830]There's nothing you can’t do [01:04.880]Now you’re in New York [01:09.670]These streets will make you feel brand new [01:13.110]Big lights will inspire you [01:15.930]Let's hear it for New York [01:22.500]Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game [01:25.110]****, I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee ca [01:28.080]You should know I bleed Blue, but I ain't a Crip, though [01:30.850]But I got a gang of niggas walking with my clique though [01:33.560]Welcome to the melting pot [01:34.910]Corners where we selling rocks [01:36.320]Afrika Bambaataa shit [01:37.690]Home of the hip-hop [01:39.120]Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back [01:41.690]For foreigners it ain't fair, they act like they forgot how to add [01:44.480]8 million stories out there in the naked [01:47.220]City, it's a pity half of y’all won’t make it [01:50.020]Me I gotta plug Special Ed "I Got It Made" [01:52.690]If Jeezy's paying LeBron, I’m paying Dwyane Wade [01:55.720]3 dice Cee-lo, 3 card Monte [01:58.420]Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley [02:01.200]Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade [02:03.830]Long live the king yo [02:05.330]I’m from the Empire State, that's: [02:07.280]In New York [02:10.010]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of [02:13.840]There's nothing you can’t do [02:17.070]Now you’re in New York [02:21.730]These streets will make you feel brand new [02:24.910]Big lights will inspire you [02:27.800]Let's hear it for New York [02:35.230]Lights is blinding [02:36.580]Girls need blinders [02:37.750]So they can step out of bounds quick [02:39.450]The side lines is lined with casualties [02:41.970]Who sip the life casually, then gradually become worse [02:44.970]Don’t bite the apple, Eve [02:46.460]Caught up in the in-crowd [02:47.770]Now you're in-style [02:48.680]And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out [02:51.550]The city of sin is a pity on a whim [02:54.080]Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with 'em [02:57.420]Mommy took a bus trip and now she got her bust out [02:59.940]Everybody ride her, just like a bus route [03:02.970]"Hail Mary" to the city, you're a virgin [03:05.470]And Jesus can’t save you, life starts when the church ends [03:08.380]Came here for school, graduated to the high life [03:11.170]Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight [03:14.070]M**A got you feeling like a champion [03:16.460]The city never sleeps, better slip you a Ambien [03:19.180]In New York [03:22.040]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of [03:25.750]There's nothing you can’t do [03:29.050]Now you’re in New York [03:33.630]These streets will make you feel brand new [03:36.970]Big lights will inspire you [03:39.890]Let's hear it for New York [03:47.590]One hand in the air for the big city [03:50.110]Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty [03:52.800]No place in the world that can compare [03:55.720]Put your lighters in the air, everybody say "yea!" [04:03.120]In New York [04:06.260]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of [04:10.120]There's nothing you can’t do [04:13.400]Now you’re in New York [04:18.010]These streets will make you feel brand new [04:21.340]Big lights will inspire you [04:24.260]Let's hear it for New York [04:31.020]