Empire State Of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)

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 (Dímelo!)

Brought me back to that McDonald's

Took it to my stash spot, 560 State Street

Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whippin' pastry

Cruisin' down 8th Street, off-white Lexus

Drivin' so slow, but B.K. 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 sippin' Mai Tai's

Sittin' courtside, Knicks and Nets give me high five

****, I be Spike'd out, I could trip a referee

Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from, from, aye

In New York (Uh-huh)

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of (Yeah)

There's nothin' you can't do (Yeah)

Now you're in New York (Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh)

These streets will make you feel brand new

Big lights will inspire you (Come on)

Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York (You welcome, OG, I made you hot, ****)

Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game

Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous then a Yankee can

You should know I bleed blue, but I ain't a Crip though

But I got a gang of **** walkin' with my clique though

Welcome to the meltin' pot, corners where we sellin' rock

Afrika Bambataa shit, home of the hip-hop

Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back

For foreigners it ain't fair, they act like they forgot how to act

Eight million stories, out there in the naked

City is a pity, half of y'all won't make it

Me, I got a plug, Special Ed, "I Got It Made"

If Jeezy's payin' Lebron, I'm payin' Dwyane Wade

Three dice Cee-Lo, three-card monte

Labor Day Parade, rest in peace, Bob Marley

Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade (Come on, come on)

Long live the King, yo, I'm from the Empire State that's, aye (Come on)

In New York (Uh, yeah)

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of

There's nothin' you can't do (That boy good)

Now you're in New York

These streets will make you feel brand new (Welcome to the bright lights, baby)

Big lights will inspire you

Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York (Uh, yeah, uh)

Lights is blinding, girls need blinders

So they can step out of bounds quick, the sidelines is

Lined with casualties, who sip to life casually

Then gradually become worse, don't bite the apple, Eve

Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in-style

End of 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 feelin' like a champion (Come on, come on)

The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien (Come on)

In New York (Uh, yeah)

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of

There's nothin' you can't do (Okay)

Now you're in New York (Uh, yeah)

These streets will make you feel brand new

Big lights will inspire you

Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York (Uh, yeah, uh)

One hand in the air for the big city

Street lights, big dreams, all lookin' pretty

No place in the world that could compare

Put your lighters in the air, everybody say, "Yeah, yeah (Come on, come on)

Yeah, yeah" (Come on)

In New York

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of

There's nothin' you can't do (Okay)

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 (Uh, yeah, uh)