[ti:Empire State of Mind (Live)]
[ar:Jay-Z]
[al:Live In Brooklyn]
[by:]
[00:00.00]Empire State of Mind (Live) - Jay-Z
[00:09.78]Yeah
[00:10.72]Yeah I'm up at Brooklyn now I'm down in Tribeca
[00:13.30]Right next to DeNiro
[00:14.46]But I'll be hood forever
[00:16.00]I'm the new Sinatra
[00:17.31]And since I made it here
[00:18.82]I can make it anywhere
[00:20.02]Yeah they love me everywhere
[00:21.45]I used to cop in Harlem
[00:22.67]All of my Dominicanos
[00:24.13]Right there up on Broadway
[00:25.36]Brought me back to that McDonald's
[00:26.89]Took it to my stash spot: 560 State Street
[00:29.49]Catch me in the kitchen
[00:30.66]Like the Simmons whippin' pastry
[00:32.15]Cruising down 8th Street off-white Lexus
[00:34.88]Driving so slow but B K is from Texas
[00:37.68]Now I'm up at Bed-Stuy home of that boy Biggie
[00:40.39]Now I live on billboard
[00:41.70]And I brought my boys with me
[00:43.28]Say what up to Ty Ty still sippin' Mai Tais
[00:45.77]Sittin' courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives
[00:48.62]Ni**a I be spiked out
[00:49.80]I can trip a referee
[00:51.14]Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from
[00:54.51]In New York
[00:57.25]Concrete jungle where dreams are made
[01:01.32]Oh there's nothing you can't do
[01:04.40]Now you're in New York
[01:08.71]These streets will make you feel brand new
[01:11.82]Big lights will inspire you
[01:14.53]Let's hear it for New York New York New York
[01:21.25]Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
[01:23.58]Sh*t I made the Yankee hat
[01:24.91]More famous than a Yankee can
[01:26.44]You should know I bleed blue
[01:27.83]But I ain't a Crip though
[01:29.14]But I got a gang of niggas
[01:30.49]Walkin' with my clique though
[01:31.78]Welcome to the melting pot
[01:33.19]Corners where we selling rock
[01:34.59]Afrika Bambaataa sh*t home of the hip-hop
[01:37.04]Yellow cab gypsy cab dollar cab holla back
[01:39.91]For foreigners it ain't fair
[01:41.06]They act like they forgot how to add
[01:42.65]Eight million stories out there in the naked
[01:45.32]City it's a pity half of y'all won't make it
[01:47.92]Me I gotta plug Special Ed "I got it made"
[01:50.68]If Jeezy's payin' LeBron I'm payin' Dwayne Wade
[01:53.57]Three-dice Cee-lo three-card Monte
[01:56.05]Labor Day parade rest in peace Bob Marley
[01:58.86]Statue of Liberty long live the World Trade
[02:01.57]Long live the king yo:
[02:02.96]I'm from the Empire State that's
[02:04.74]In New York
[02:07.63]Concrete jungle where dreams are made oh
[02:11.21]There's nothing you can't do
[02:14.49]Now you're in New York
[02:18.83]These streets will make you feel brand new
[02:22.12]Big lights will inspire you
[02:24.81]Let's hear it for New York New York New York
[02:32.34]Lights is blinding: girls need blinders
[02:34.83]Or they can step out of bounds quick
[02:36.77]The sidelines is lined with casualties
[02:38.85]Who sipping life casually then gradually become worse
[02:41.47]Don't bite the apple Eve 'caught up in the in-crowd
[02:44.32]Now you're in-style
[02:45.22]And in the winter gets cold en
[02:47.12]Vogue with your skin out
[02:48.44]The city of sin is a pity on a whim
[02:50.74]Good girls gone bad the city's filled with them
[02:53.92]Mommy took a bus trip now she got her bust out
[02:56.22]Everybody ride her just like a bus route
[02:59.66]Hail Mary to the city you're a virgin
[03:01.89]And Jesus can't save you
[03:02.83]Life starts when the church ends
[03:04.47]Came here for school graduated to the high life
[03:07.16]Ballplayers rap stars addicted to the limelight
[03:09.88]MDMA got you feeling like a champion
[03:12.48]The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambien
[03:15.04]In New York
[03:17.92]Concrete jungle where dreams are made
[03:21.04]Oh there's nothing you can't do
[03:25.16]Now you're in New York
[03:29.47]These streets will make you feel brand new
[03:32.46]Big lights will inspire you
[03:35.32]Let's hear it for New York New York New York
[03:42.97]One hand in the air for the big city
[03:45.33]Street lights big dreams all looking pretty
[03:47.97]No place in the world that can compare
[03:50.79]Put your lighters in the air everybody say yeaaahh
[03:56.23]Yeah
[03:57.96]In New York
[04:01.25]Concrete jungle where dreams are made
[04:04.44]Oh there's nothing you can't do
[04:08.32]Now you're in New York
[04:12.81]These streets will make you feel brand new
[04:15.73]Big lights will inspire you
[04:18.54]Let's hear it for New York New York New York