[00:09.29](Jay-Z)
[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
[00:24.44]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,
[00:32.71]Cruising down 8th street,
[00:34.10]Off white lexus,
[00:35.45]Driving so slow but BK is from Texas,
[00:38.25]Me I''m up at Bedsty,
[00:39.64]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,
[00:49.26]N-gga i be spiked out, i can trip a referee,
[00:52.05]Tell by my attitude that I most definitely fro
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[00:54.65](Alicia Keys)
[00:55.15]New York,
[00:58.17]I''m from where dreams are made of,
[01:02.67]Theres nothing you can''t do,
[01:05.42]Now you''re in New York,
[01:09.96]These streets will make you feel brand new,
[01:13.35]The lights will inspire you,
[01:16.25]Lets here it for New York, New York, New York
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[01:20.43](Jay-Z)
[01:20.93]I made you hot n-gga,
[01:22.85]Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game,
[01:25.53]Sh-t i made the yankee hat more famous than a yankee can,
[01:28.29]You should know I bleed Blue, but I aint a crip tho,
[01:30.98]But i got a gang of n-ggas walking with my click though,
[01:33.73]Welcome to the melting pot,
[01:35.12]Corners where we selling rocks,
[01:36.50]Afrika bambaataa sh-t,
[01:37.77]Home of the hip hop,
[01:39.23]Yellow cap, gypsy cap, dollar cap, holla back,
[01:41.95]For foreigners it aint fitted they forgot how to act,
[01:44.79]8 million stories out there and their naked,
[01:47.84]Cities is a pity half of y''all won''t make it,
[01:50.32]Me i gotta plug a special and i got it made,
[01:52.95]If Jesus payin LeBron, I''m paying Dwayne Wade,
[01:55.87]3 dice cee-lo
[01:57.25]3 card marley,
[01:58.60]Labor day parade, rest in peace Bob Marley,
[02:01.39]Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade,
[02:04.16]Long live the king yo,
[02:05.56]I''m from the empire state that
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[02:06.89](Alicia Keys)
[02:07.39]New York,
[02:10.38]I''m from where dreams are made of,
[02:14.58]Theres nothing you can''t do,
[02:17.37]Now you''re in New York,
[02:22.22]These streets will make you feel brand new,
[02:25.30]The lights will inspire you,
[02:28.16]Lets here it for New York, New York, New York
[02:34.54]
[02:35.04](Jay-Z)
[02:35.54]Lights is blinding,
[02:36.69]Girls need blinders
[02:38.06]So they can step out of bounds quick,
[02:39.94]The side lines is blind with casualties,
[02:42.27]? casually, then gradually become worse,
[02:45.14]Don''t bite the apple Eve,
[02:46.44]Caught up in the in crowd,
[02:47.86]Now your in-style,
[02:48.98]And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out,
[02:51.94]The city of sin is a pity of win,
[02:54.38]Good girls gone bad, the cities filled with them,
[02:57.48]Mommy took a bus trip and now she got her bust out,
[03:00.32]Everybody ride her, just like a bus route,
[03:03.42]Hail Mary to the city your a Virgin,
[03:05.77]And Jesus can''t save you like starts when the church ends,
[03:08.77]Came here for school, graduated to the high life,
[03:11.24]Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight,
[03:14.16]Empty in May got you feeling like a champion,
[03:16.68]The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambien
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[03:19.00](Alicia Keys)