[00:10.63]Yeah, yeah, I'ma up at Brooklyn, now I'm down in Tribeca
[00:14.01]Right next to De Niro, but I'll be hood forever
[00:16.73]I'm the new Sinatra, and since I made it here
[00:19.49]I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere
[00:22.25]I used to cop in Harlem, all of my Dominicanos
[00:24.90]Right there up on Broadway, brought me back to that McDonald's
[00:27.99]Took it to my stash spot, 560 State Street
[00:30.55]Catch me in the Kitchen like a Simmons whipping pastry
[00:33.16]Cruising down 8th Street, off-white Lexus
[00:36.00]Driving so slow, but BK is from Taxes
[00:38.76]Me, I'm up at Bed-Stuy, home of that boy Biggie
[00:41.73]Now I live on Billboards, and I brought my boys with me
[00:44.44]Say what up to Ty Ty, still sipping mai tai
[00:47.29]Sitting courtside, Knicks and Nets give me high fives
[00:49.92]*****, I be spiked out, I can trip a referee
[00:52.76]Tell by my attitude that I am most definitely from
[00:55.98]In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[01:02.50]There's nothing you can't do, now you're in New York
[01:08.77]These streets will make you feel brand new
[01:13.44]Big lights will inspire you, let's hear it for New York
[01:19.54]New York, New York
[01:21.89](I made you hot, *****)
[01:23.33]Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
[01:26.21]****, I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can
[01:28.67]You should know I bleed blue, but I ain't a Crip though
[01:31.38]But I got a gang of ****** walking with my clique, though
[01:34.23]Welcome to the melting pot, corners where we selling rock
[01:36.86]Afrika Bambaataa ****, home of the hip hop
[01:39.55]Yellow Cab, Gypsy Cab, Dollar Cab, holla back
[01:42.27]For foreigners that ain't fifty, they act like they forgot how to act
[01:45.31]Eight million stories out there, and they're naked
[01:47.87]Cities is a pity, half of y'all won't make it
[01:50.65]Me, I gotta plug, Special Ed "I Got It Made"
[01:53.15]If Jeezy payin' LeBron, I'm paying Dwyane Wade
[01:55.66]Three dice, Cee-lo, three-card Monte
[01:58.76]Labor Day Parade, rest in peace, Bob Marley
[02:01.68]Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade
[02:04.51]Long live the king, yo, I'm from the Empire State that's
[02:08.06]In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[02:14.08]There's nothing you can't do, now you're in New York
[02:21.60]These streets will make you feel brand new
[02:25.20]Big lights will inspire you, let's hear it for New York
[02:30.78]New York, New York
[02:34.83]Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
[02:38.21]So they can step out of bounds quick
[02:40.12]The sidelines is blind with casualties
[02:42.48]Who sipping life casually, then gradually become worse
[02:45.15]Don't bite the apple, Eve, caught up in the in crowd
[02:47.71]Now you're in style, end of the winter gets cold
[02:50.23]En vogue with your skin out, the city of sin is a pity on a whim
[02:54.16]Good girls gone bad, the cities filled with them
[02:57.17]Mommy took a bus trip, now she got her bust out
[03:00.04]Everybody ride her just like a bus route
[03:02.87]Hail Mary to the city, you're a virgin
[03:05.64]And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church ends
[03:08.47]Came here for school, graduated to the high life
[03:11.13]Ball players, rap stars addicted to the limelight
[03:13.86]MDMA got you feeling like a champion
[03:16.64]The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien
[03:19.41]In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[03:25.65]There's nothing you can't do, now you're in New York
[03:32.61]These streets will make you feel brand new
[03:36.67]Big lights will inspire you, let's hear it for New York
[03:42.30]New York, New York
[03:45.47]One hand in the air for the big city
[03:49.94]Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty
[03:52.62]No place in the world that can compare
[03:55.49]Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
[04:02.40](Come on, come on)
[04:03.33]In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of
[04:09.88]There's nothing you can't do, now you're in New York
[04:16.75]These streets will make you feel brand new
[04:21.30]Big lights will inspire you, let's hear it for New York [04:26.94]New York, New York