[00:-7.52]Empire State of Mind [00:-5.52]Jay-Z [00:00.00] [00:09.79]Yeah, [00:10.77]Yeah, Imma up at Brooklyn, [00:12.10]Now Im down in Tribeca, [00:13.40]Right next to DeNiro, [00:14.74]But I'll be hood forever, [00:16.19]I'm the new Sinatra, [00:17.50]And since i made it here, [00:18.93]I can make it anywhere, [00:20.26]Yeah they love me everywhere, [00:21.67]I used to cop in Harlem, [00:23.05]All of my dominicanos [00:24.44]Right there up on broadway, [00:25.75]Brought me back to that McDonalds, [00:27.21]Took it to my stash spot, [00:28.56]Five Sixty Stage street, [00:29.90]Catch me in the kitchen like a simmons whipping pastry, [00:32.71]Cruising down 8th street, [00:34.10]Off white lexus, [00:35.45]Driving so slow but BK is from Texas, [00:38.25]Me I'm up at Bedsty, [00:39.64]Home of that boy Biggie, [00:41.05]Now i live on billboard, [00:42.33]And i brought my boys with me, [00:43.84]Say wat up to Ty Ty, still sipping Malta [00:46.49]Sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives, [00:49.26]N-gga i be spiked out, i can trip a referee, [00:52.05]Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from… [00:54.15] [00:55.15]New York, [00:58.17]I'm from where dreams are made of, [01:02.67]Theres nothing you can't do, [01:05.42]Now you're in New York, [01:09.96]These streets will make you feel brand new, [01:13.35]The lights will inspire you, [01:16.25]Lets here it for New York, New York, New York [01:19.93] [01:20.93]I made you hot n-gga, [01:22.85]Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game, [01:25.53]Sh-t i made the yankee hat more famous than a yankee can, [01:28.29]You should know I bleed Blue, but I aint a crip tho, [01:30.98]But i got a gang of n-ggas walking with my click though, [01:33.73]Welcome to the melting pot, [01:35.12]Corners where we selling rocks, [01:36.50]Afrika bambaataa sh-t, [01:37.77]Home of the hip hop, [01:39.23]Yellow cap, gypsy cap, dollar cap, holla back, [01:41.95]For foreigners it aint fitted they forgot how to act, [01:44.79]8 million stories out there and their naked, [01:47.84]Cities is a pity half of y'all won't make it, [01:50.32]Me i gotta plug a special and i got it made, [01:52.95]If Jesus payin LeBron, I'm paying Dwayne Wade, [01:55.87]3 dice cee-lo [01:57.25]3 card marley, [01:58.60]Labor day parade, rest in peace Bob Marley, [02:01.39]Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade, [02:04.16]Long live the king yo, [02:05.56]I'm from the empire state thats… [02:06.39] [02:07.39]New York, [02:10.38]I'm from where dreams are made of, [02:14.58]Theres nothing you can't do, [02:17.37]Now you're in New York, [02:22.22]These streets will make you feel brand new, [02:25.30]The lights will inspire you, [02:28.16]Lets here it for New York, New York, New York [02:34.54] [02:35.54]Lights is blinding, [02:36.69]Girls need blinders [02:38.06]So they can step out of bounds quick, [02:39.94]The side lines is blind with casualties, [02:42.27]? casually, then gradually become worse, [02:45.14]Don't bite the apple Eve, [02:46.44]Caught up in the in crowd, [02:47.86]Now your in-style, [02:48.98]And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out, [02:51.94]The city of sin is a pity of win, [02:54.38]Good girls gone bad, the cities filled with them, [02:57.48]Mommy took a bus trip and now she got her bust out, [03:00.32]Everybody ride her, just like a bus route, [03:03.42]Hail Mary to the city your a Virgin, [03:05.77]And Jesus can't save you like starts when the church ends, [03:08.77]Came here for school, graduated to the high life, [03:11.24]Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight, [03:14.16]Empty in May got you feeling like a champion, [03:16.68]The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambien [03:18.42] [03:19.42]New York, [03:22.35]I'm from where dreams are made of, [03:26.56]Theres nothing you can't do, [03:29.35]Now you're in New York, [03:33.94]These streets will make you feel brand new, [03:37.25]The lights will inspire you, [03:40.20]Lets here it for New York, New York, New York [03:46.81] [03:47.81]One hand in the air for the big city, [03:50.34]Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty, [03:53.11]No place in the World that can compare, [03:55.82]Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeaaahh [04:00.87]Come on, come, [04:03.35] [04:03.85]New York, [04:06.96]I'm from where dreams are made of, [04:10.95]Theres nothing you can't do, [04:13.62]Now you're in New York, [04:18.27]These streets will make you feel brand new, [04:21.58]The lights will inspire you, [04:24.59]Lets here it for New York, New York, New York [04:32.59]