[00:00.00]Empire State of Mind (Live)
[00:03.29]Jay-Z
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[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
[00:23.94]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,
[00:32.21]Cruising down 8th street,
[00:34.10]Off white lexus,
[00:35.45]Driving so slow but BK is from Texas,
[00:37.75]Me I'm up at Bedsty,
[00:39.14]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,
[00:48.76]N-gga i be spiked out, i can trip a referee,
[00:52.05]Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from…
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[00:54.65]New York,
[00:57.67]I'm from where dreams are made of,
[01:02.17]Theres nothing you can't do,
[01:04.92]Now you're in New York,
[01:08.96]These streets will make you feel brand new,
[01:12.85]The lights will inspire you,
[01:15.25]Lets here it for New York, New York, New York
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[01:21.35]Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game,
[01:24.03]Sh-t i made the yankee hat more famous than a yankee can,
[01:26.29]You should know I bleed Blue, but I aint a crip tho,
[01:29.48]But i got a gang of n-ggas walking with my click though,
[01:32.23]Welcome to the melting pot,
[01:33.62]Corners where we selling rocks,
[01:35.00]Afrika bambaataa sh-t,
[01:36.27]Home of the hip hop,
[01:37.73]Yellow cap, gypsy cap, dollar cap, holla back,
[01:40.45]For foreigners it aint fitted they forgot how to act,
[01:43.29]8 million stories out there and their naked,
[01:45.84]Cities is a pity half of y'all won't make it,
[01:48.32]Me i gotta plug a special and i got it made,
[01:50.95]If Jesus payin LeBron, I'm paying Dwayne Wade,
[01:54.37]3 dice cee-lo
[01:55.75]3 card marley,
[01:57.10]Labor day parade, rest in peace Bob Marley,
[01:59.89]Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade,
[02:02.66]Long live the king yo,
[02:04.06]I'm from the empire state thats…
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[02:05.39]New York,
[02:08.38]I'm from where dreams are made of,
[02:12.08]Theres nothing you can't do,
[02:15.37]Now you're in New York,
[02:19.72]These streets will make you feel brand new,
[02:23.30]The lights will inspire you,
[02:25.66]Lets here it for New York, New York, New York
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[02:33.54]Lights is blinding,
[02:34.69]Girls need blinders
[02:36.06]So they can step out of bounds quick,
[02:37.94]The side lines is blind with casualties,
[02:40.27]? casually, then gradually become worse,
[02:42.64]Don't bite the apple Eve,
[02:44.44]Caught up in the in crowd,
[02:45.86]Now your in-style,
[02:46.98]And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out,
[02:49.94]The city of sin is a pity of win,
[02:52.38]Good girls gone bad, the cities filled with them,
[02:55.48]Mommy took a bus trip and now she got her bust out,
[02:58.32]Everybody ride her, just like a bus route,
[03:01.42]Hail Mary to the city your a Virgin,
[03:03.77]And Jesus can't save you like starts when the church ends,
[03:06.77]Came here for school, graduated to the high life,
[03:09.24]Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight,
[03:12.16]Empty in May got you feeling like a champion,
[03:14.68]The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambien
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[03:17.42]New York,
[03:20.35]I'm from where dreams are made of,
[03:24.56]Theres nothing you can't do,
[03:27.35]Now you're in New York,
[03:31.94]These streets will make you feel brand new,
[03:35.25]The lights will inspire you,
[03:38.20]Lets here it for New York, New York, New York
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[03:45.81]One hand in the air for the big city,
[03:48.34]Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty,
[03:51.11]No place in the World that can compare,
[03:53.82]Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeaaahh
[03:58.87]Come on, come,
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[04:01.85]New York,
[04:04.96]I'm from where dreams are made of,
[04:08.95]Theres nothing you can't do,
[04:11.62]Now you're in New York,
[04:16.27]These streets will make you feel brand new,
[04:19.58]The lights will inspire you,
[04:22.59]Lets here it for New York, New York, New York
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