[ti:Empire State Of Mind feat. Alicia Keys]
[ar:Jay-Z]
[al:The Blueprint 3]
[by:活在當(dāng)下]
[00:01.12]Jay-Z - Empire State Of Mind feat. Alicia Keys
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[00:06.73] @ 活在當(dāng)下 制作
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[00:09.59]Yeah,
[00:10.42]Yeah, I'm a up at Brooklyn,
[00:12.19]Now I'm down in Tribeca,
[00:13.36]Right next to DeNiro,
[00:14.69]But I'll be hood forever,
[00:16.18]I'm the new Sinatra,
[00:17.56]And since I made it here,
[00:18.88]I can make it anywhere,
[00:20.22]Yeah they love me everywhere,
[00:21.66]I used to cop in Harlem,
[00:23.05]All of my dominicanos
[00:24.41]Right there up on broadway,
[00:25.73]Brought me back to that McDonalds,
[00:26.96]Took it to my stash spot,
[00:28.60]Five Sixty Stage street,
[00:29.93]Catch me in the kitchen like a simmons whipping pastry,
[00:32.73]Cruising down 8th street,
[00:34.33]Off white lexus,
[00:35.54]Driving so slow but BK is from Texas,
[00:38.32]Me I'm up at Bedsty,
[00:39.72]Home of that boy Biggie,
[00:41.10]Now I live on billboard,
[00:42.55]And I brought my boys with me,
[00:43.96]Say wat up to Ty Ty, still sipping Malta
[00:45.70]Sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives,
[00:48.71]N-gga I be spiked out, I can trip a referee,
[00:52.01]Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from...
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[00:55.22]In New York,
[00:58.58]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
[01:02.62]There's nothing you can't do,
[01:05.64]Now you're in New York,
[01:09.42]These streets will make you feel brand new,
[01:13.78]The lights will inspire you,
[01:16.41]Let's here it for New York, New York, New York
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[01:21.37](Jay-Z:)
[01:21.66]I made you hot n-gga,
[01:22.87]Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game,
[01:25.57]Sh-t I made the yankee hat more famous than a yankee can,
[01:28.34]You should know I bleed Blue, but I ain't a crip tho,
[01:30.95]But I got a gang of n-ggas walking with my click though,
[01:33.81]Welcome to the melting pot,
[01:35.16]Corners where we selling rocks,
[01:36.50]Afrika bambaataa sh-t,
[01:37.82]Home of the hip hop,
[01:39.25]Yellow cap, gypsy cap, dollar cab, holla back,
[01:41.97]For foreigners it ain't fitted they forgot how to act,
[01:44.86]8 million stories out there and their naked,
[01:47.49]Cities is a pity half of y'all won't make it,
[01:50.34]Me I gotta plug a special and I got it made,
[01:52.98]If Jesus payin LeBron, I'm paying Dwayne Wade,
[01:55.97]3 dice cee-lo
[01:57.24]3 card marley,
[01:58.63]Labor day parade, rest in peace Bob Marley,
[02:01.38]Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade,
[02:04.22]Long live the king yo,
[02:05.51]I'm from the empire state that's...
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[02:07.79]In New York,
[02:10.50]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
[02:14.45]There's nothing you can't do,
[02:17.62]Now you're in New York,
[02:21.79]These streets will make you feel brand new,
[02:25.46]The lights will inspire you,
[02:28.31]Let's here it for New York, New York, New York
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[02:35.47]Lights is blinding,
[02:37.00]Girls need blinders
[02:38.15]So they can step out of bounds quick,
[02:40.12]The side lines is blind with casualties,
[02:42.18]Who sipping life casually, then gradually become worse,
[02:45.09]Don't bite the apple Eve,
[02:46.30]Caught up in the in crowd,
[02:47.79]Now your in-style,
[02:49.06]And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out,
[02:51.69]The city of sin is a pity on a whim,
[02:54.34]Good girls gone bad, the cities filled with them,
[02:57.14]Mommy took a bus trip and now she got her bust out,
[03:00.31]Everybody ride her, just like a bus route,
[03:02.96]Hail Mary to the city your a Virgin,
[03:05.72]And Jesus can't save you life starts when the church ends,
[03:08.78]Came here for school, graduated to the high life,
[03:11.19]Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight,
[03:14.00]MDMA got you feeling like a champion,
[03:16.74]The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambien
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[03:19.59]In New York,
[03:22.46]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
[03:26.39]There's nothing you can't do,
[03:29.58]Now you're in New York,
[03:34.00]These streets will make you feel brand new,
[03:37.48]The lights will inspire you,
[03:40.23]Let's here it for New York, New York, New York
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[03:47.92]One hand in the air for the big city,
[03:50.31]Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty,
[03:53.13]No place in the World that can compare,
[03:55.99]Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeaaahh
[04:00.95]Come on, come,
[04:03.23]Yeah,
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[04:03.98]In New York,
[04:06.90]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
[04:10.74]There's nothing you can't do,
[04:13.94]Now you're in New York,
[04:18.53]These streets will make you feel brand new,
[04:21.70]The lights will inspire you,
[04:24.58]Let's here it for New York, New York, New York
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