Empire State Of Mind by Alicia Keys - Jay Z

Yeah,
Yeah, I'm out 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 (1)______________ 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]
In New York,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
Theres nothing you can’t do,
Now you’re in New York,
these streets will (2)________ 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 (3)____________ (4)________ a yankee can,
you should (5)________ I bleed Blue, but I aint a crip tho,
but I got a gang of n-ggas walking (6)________ my click though,
welcome to the melting pot,
corners (7)__________ we (8)______________ rocks,
afrika bambaataa sh-t,
home of the hip hop,
yellow cap, gypsy cap, dollar cab, holla back,
for foreigners it aint (9)____________ they (10)____________ how to act,
eight million stories out there and their naked,
cities is a pity (11)________ of y’all won’t make it,
me I gotta plug a (12)______________ and I got it made,
If Jesus payin LeBron, I’m paying Dwayne Wade,
three (13)________ cee-lo
three (14)________ 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…

[Chorus]

In New York,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
Theres nothing you can’t do,
Now you’re in New York,
these streets (15)________ make you feel brand new,
the lights will inspire you,
lets here it for New York, New York, New York
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 (16)________ 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 (17)________ skin out,
the (18)________ of sin is a pity on a whim,
good girls gone bad, the (19)____________ (20)____________ with them,
Mommy (21)________ a bus trip and now she got her bust out,
everybody ride her, just like a bus route,
Hail Mary to the city (22)________ a Virgin,
and Jesus can’t save you life starts when the church ends,
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]

In New York,
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
Theres nothing you can’t do,
Now you’re in New York,
these streets will (23)________ you feel (24)__________ new,
the (25)____________ 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 (26)______________ pretty,
no place in the World that can compare,
Put your (27)________________ in the air, everybody say yeaaahh
come on, come,
yeah,

[Chorus]

In New York,
Concrete jungle 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 (28)________ (29)______________ you,
lets here it for New York, New York, New York

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