[00:00:00] Empire State Of Mind - Hip Hop Masters [00:00:09] Yeah yeah I'ma up at Brooklyn [00:00:12] Now I'm down in Tribeca [00:00:14] Right next to De Niro but I'll be hood forever [00:00:16] I'm the new Sinatra and since I made it here [00:00:19] I can make it anywhere yeah they love me everywhere [00:00:22] I used to cop in Harlem all of my Dominicanos [00:00:24] Right there up on Broadway [00:00:26] Brought me back to that McDonald's [00:00:27] Took it to my stash spot 560 State Street [00:00:30] Catch me in the Kitchen like a Simmons whipping pastry [00:00:33] Cruising down 8th Street off-white Lexus [00:00:35] Driving so slow but BK is from Texas [00:00:38] Me I'm up at Bed-Stuy home of that boy Biggie [00:00:41] Now I live on Billboards [00:00:42] And I brought my boys with me [00:00:44] Say what up to Ty Ty still sipping mai tai [00:00:46] Sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives [00:00:49] Ni**a I be spiked out I can trip a referee [00:00:52] Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from [00:00:55] In New York [00:00:58] Concrete jungle where dreams are made up [00:01:02] There's nothing you can't do now you're in New York [00:01:10] These streets will make you feel brand new [00:01:13] Big lights will inspire you let's hear it for New York [00:01:19] New York New York [00:01:23] Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game [00:01:25] Sh*t I made the Yankee [00:01:26] Hat more famous than a Yankee can [00:01:28] You should know I bleed blue [00:01:30] But I ain't a Crip though [00:01:31] But I got a gang of niggas [00:01:32] Walking with my clique though [00:01:34] Welcome to the melting pot [00:01:35] Corners where we selling rock [00:01:36] Afrika Bambaataa sh*t home of the hip hop [00:01:39] Yellow Cab Gypsy Cab Dollar Cab holla back [00:01:42] For foreigners it ain't fair [00:01:43] They act like they forgot how to act [00:01:45] Eight million stories out there and they're naked [00:01:47] Cities is a pity half of y'all won't make it [00:01:50] Me I gotta plug Special Ed "I Got It Made" [00:01:53] If Jeezy paying LeBron I'm paying Dwyane Wade [00:01:56] Three dice Cee-lo three-card Monte [00:01:58] Labor Day Parade rest in peace Bob Marley [00:02:01] Statue of Liberty long live the World Trade [00:02:04] Long live the king yo [00:02:05] I'm from the Empire State that's [00:02:07] In New York concrete jungle [00:02:11] Where dreams are made up [00:02:14] There's nothing you can't do now you're in New York [00:02:22] These streets will make you feel brand new [00:02:25] Big lights will inspire you let's hear it for New York [00:02:31] New York New York [00:02:35] Lights is blinding girls need blinders [00:02:38] So they can step out of bounds quick [00:02:40] The sidelines is blind with casualties [00:02:42] Who sipping life casually [00:02:43] Then gradually become worse [00:02:45] Don't bite the apple Eve caught up in the in crowd [00:02:48] Now you're in style end of the winter gets cold [00:02:50] En vogue with your skin out [00:02:52] The city of sin is a pity on a whim [00:02:54] Good girls gone bad the cities filled with them [00:02:57] Mommy took a bus trip now she got her bust out [00:03:00] Everybody ride her just like a bus route [00:03:03] Hail Mary to the city you're a virgin [00:03:06] And Jesus can't save you [00:03:07] Life starts when the church ends [00:03:08] Came here for school graduated to the high life [00:03:11] Ball players rap stars addicted to the limelight [00:03:14] MDMA got you feeling like a champion [00:03:17] The city never sleeps better slip you an Ambien [00:03:19] In New York concrete jungle [00:03:23] Where dreams are made up [00:03:26] There's nothing you can't do now you're in New York [00:03:34] These streets will make you feel brand new [00:03:37] Big lights will inspire you let's hear it for New York [00:03:43] New York New York [00:03:48] One hand in the air for the big city [00:03:50] Street lights big dreams all looking pretty [00:03:53] No place in the world that can compare [00:03:56] Put your lighters in the air