(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Amazing song always makes me stand up when the chorus kicks in. Makes me wanna go to New York. [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdRXlJIygeI"]YouTube - Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind + Lyrics [ The Blueprint 3 ][/ame]
Yeah,
Yeah, Imma up at Brooklyn,
now Im down in Tribeca,
right next to DeNiro,
But ill be hood forever,
Im 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,
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took it to my stash spot,
5-60 State 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 Im up at Bed Stuy,
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 Mai-tai
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]
In New York,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
Theres nothing you cant do,
Now youre in New York,
these streets will make you feel brand new,
the lights will inspire you,
lets hear 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 clique 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 cab, holla back,
for foreigners it aint fitted they forgot how to act,
8 million stories out there and their naked,
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cities is a pity half of yall wont make it,
me i gotta plug Special Ed and i got it made,
If Jeezys payin LeBron, Im paying Dwayne Wade,
3 dice cee-lo
3 card Monte,
labor day parade, rest in peace Bob Marley,
Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade,
long live the king yo,
Im from the empire state thats

[Chorus]

Welcome to the bright light..

[Jay-Z]
Lights is blinding,
girls need blinders
so they can step out of bounds quick,
the side lines is blind with casualties,
who sipping life casually, then gradually become worse,
dont 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 on a whim,
good girls gone bad, the cities filled with them,
Mami 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 cant save you life starts when the church ends,
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came here for school, graduated to the high life,
ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight,
MDMA got you feeling like a champion,
the city never sleeps better slip you a Ambien

[Chorus]

[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,
yeah,
[Chorus]

Im already in NY and the song woulda been way hotter if he had kept nas on the track like he was supposed to have done.

yea I was major pissed when the updated tracklist came out and nas had been removed. It's cool Nas was too hard for that album anyway, at least with the direction he took it in. The orignal rumored tracklist for BP3 in 2008 was freaking awesome, I wish they had put that album out

I really like this SONG xD

Yea i think jay took nas off because hes scared of how badly nas is gunna show him up on his own track. Everyone knows Nas killed jay in their beef and that hes a better lyricist, even jay knows it.

this song is my favorite so far next to run this town!

The best song on the album! It would've been a LOT better if they would've kept Nas in it.

well good song i downloaded jay z album for free

Love this song soo much! Really want to go to New York again!

It's alright. I like Jay-Z but not his best. It's still in the top 20 in the UK...