Z-Empire State Of Mind (Feat. Alicia Keys)

Yeah

Yeah Imma up at Brooklyn

Now Im 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

All of my dominicanos

Right there up on broadway

Brought me back to that McDonalds

Took it to my stash spot

Five Sixty Stage street

Catch me in the kitchen like a simmons whipping pastry

Cruising down 8th street

Off white lexus

Driving so slow but BK is from Texas

Me I'm up at Bedsty

Home of that boy Biggie

Now i live on billboard

And i brought my boys with me

Say wat up to Ty Ty still sipping Malta

Sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives

N-gga i be spiked out i can trip a referee

Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from …

（Alicia Keys）

New York

I'm from where dreams are made of

Theres nothing you can't do

Now you're in New York

These streets will make you feel brand new

The lights will inspire you

Lets here it for New York New York New York

（Jay-Z）

I made you hot n-gga

Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game

Sh-t i made the yankee hat more famous than a yankee can

You should know I bleed Blue but I aint a crip tho

But i got a gang of n-ggas walking with my click though

Welcome to the melting pot

Corners where we selling rocks

Afrika bambaataa sh-t

Home of the hip hop

Yellow cap gypsy cap dollar cap holla back

For foreigners it aint fitted they forgot how to act

8million stories out there and their naked

Cities is a pity half of y'all won't make it

Me i gotta plug a special and i got it made

If Jesus payin LeBron I'm paying Dwayne Wade

3dice cee-lo

3card marley

Labor day parade rest in peace Bob Marley

Statue of Liberty long live the World trade

Long live the king yo

I'm from the empire state thats …

（Alicia Keys）

New York

I'm from where dreams are made of

Theres nothing you can't do

Now you're in New York

These streets will make you feel brand new

The lights will inspire you

Lets here it for New York New York New York

（Jay-Z）

Lights is blinding

Girls need blinders

So they can step out of bounds quick

The side lines is blind with casualties

casually then gradually become worse

Don't bite the apple Eve

Caught up in the in crowd

Now your in-style

And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out

The city of sin is a pity of win

Good girls gone bad the cities filled with them

Mommy took a bus trip and now she got her bust out

Everybody ride her just like a bus route

Hail Mary to the city your a Virgin

And Jesus can't save you like starts when the church ends

Came here for school graduated to the high life

Ball players rap stars addicted to the limelight

Empty in May got you feeling like a champion

The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambien

（Alicia Keys）

New York

I'm from where dreams are made of

Theres nothing you can't do

Now you're in New York

These streets will make you feel brand new

The lights will inspire you

Lets here it for New York New York New York

（Alicia Keys）

One hand in the air for the big city

Street lights big dreams all looking pretty

No place in the World that can compare

Put your lighters in the air everybody say yeaaahh

Come on come

New York

I'm from where dreams are made of

Theres nothing you can't do

Now you're in New York

These streets will make you feel brand new

The lights will inspire you

Lets here it for New York New York New York