Empire State of Mind

Yeah, yeah, I'm 'bout 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, hola my Dominicanos

Right up there on Broadway, put me back to that McDonalds

Took it to my stash spot, 560 State street

Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whipping' pastry

Cruisin' 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's up to Ty Ty, still sippin' Mai Tais

Sitting court side, Knicks and Nets give me high-fives

Jigga, 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 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

Dude, I made the Yankee cap 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 brothers walking with my clique, though

Welcome to the melting pot, corners where we selling rocks

Afrika Bambaataa, home of the hip-hop

Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holler back

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

Eight million stories, out there in the naked

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

Me, I got a plug special, and I got it made

If Jeezy paying LeBron, I'm paying Dwayne Wade

Three-dice Cee-lo, three-card Monte

Labor Day parade, rest in peace, Bob Marley

Statue of liberty, long live the World Trade

Long live the kingdom, I'm from the Empire State that's

New York, concrete jungle where dreams 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 slip through life casually

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

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

And when winter gets cold, En Vogue with your skin out

City of sin, is a pity on the whim

Good girls gone bad, this city's filled with them

Mami took a bus trip, now she gotta 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 lime life

Dub in my chest got you feeling like a champion

The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien

New York, concrete jungle where dreams 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, c'mon yeah, yeah

New York, concrete jungle where dreams 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