ALICIA KEYS - Empire State Of Mind lyrics

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[Jay-Z:] <br />Yeah, <br />Yeah, I'm ma up at Brooklyn, <br />Now I'm down in Tribe ca, <br />Right next to DeNiro, <br />But I’ll be hood forever, <br />I’m the new Sinatra, <br />And since I made it here, <br />I can make it anywhere, <br />Yeah they love me everywhere, <br />I used to cop in Harlem, <br />All of my Dominicans <br />Right there up on Broadway, <br />Brought me back to that McDonald's, <br /> <br />Took it to my stash spot, <br />5-60 State street, <br />Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whipping Pastry, <br />Cruising down 8th street, <br />Off white Lexus, <br />Driving so slow but BK is from Texas, <br />Me I’m up at Bed Study, <br />Home of that boy Biggie, <br />Now I live on billboard, <br />And I brought my boys with me, <br />Say what up to Ty Ty, still sipping Mai-tai <br />Sitting court side Knicks and Nets give me high fives, <br />N-gga I be Spiked out, I can trip a referee, <br />Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from… <br /> <br />[Alicia Keys:] <br />In New York, <br />Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, <br />There's nothing you can’t do, <br />Now you’re in New York, <br />These streets will make you feel brand new, <br />The lights will inspire you, <br />Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York <br /> <br />[Jay-Z:] <br />I made you hot nigga, <br />Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game, <br />Shit I made the Yankee hat more famous than a yankee can, <br />You should know I bleed Blue, but I ain't a crip tho, <br />But I got a gang of niggas walking with my clique though, <br />Welcome to the melting pot, <br />Corners where we selling rocks, <br />Afrika bambaataa shit, <br />Home of the hip hop, <br />Yellow cap, gypsy cap, dollar cab, holla back, <br />For foreigners it aint fitted they forgot how to act, <br />8 million stories out there and their naked, <br /> <br />Cities is a pity half of y’all won’t make it, <br />Me I gotta plug Special Ed and I got it made, <br />If Jeezy’s paying LeBron, I’m paying Dwayne Wade, <br />3 dice cee-lo <br />3 card Monte, <br />Labor day parade, rest in peace Bob Marley, <br />Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade, <br />Long live the king yo, <br />I’m from the empire state that's… <br /> <br />[Repeat Chorus:] <br /> <br />Welcome to the bright light.. <br /> <br />[Jay-Z:] <br />Lights is blinding, <br />Girls need blinders <br />So they can step out of bounds quick, <br />The side lines is blind with casualties, <br />Who sipping life casually, then gradually become worse, <br />Don’t bite the apple Eve, <br />Caught up in the in crowd, <br />Now your in-style, <br />And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out, <br />The city of sin is a pity on a whim, <br />Good girls gone bad, the cities filled with them, <br />Mami took a bus trip and now she got her bust out, <br />Everybody ride her, just like a bus route, <br />Hail Mary to the city your a Virgin, <br />And Jesus can’t save you life starts when the church ends, <br /> <br />Came here for school, graduated to the high life, <br />Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight, <br />MDMA got you feeling like a champion, <br />The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambient <br /> <br />[Repeat Chorus:] <br /> <br />[Alicia Keys:] <br />One hand in the air for the big city, <br />Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty, <br />No place in the World that can compare, <br />Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah <br />Come on, come, <br />Yeah, <br /> <br />[Repeat Chorus:]<br /><br />