Empire State of Mind (From "Raw")-The Illest Rapper

[ti:Empire State Of Mind] [ar:The Starlite Orchestra] [al:Empire State of Mind] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Empire State of Mind (From "Raw") - The Illest Rapper [00:10.71]Yeah I'm out that Brooklyn now I'm down in Tribeca [00:13.22]Right next to DeNiro but I'll be hood forever [00:16.11]I'm the new Sinatra and since I made it here [00:18.91]I can make it anywhere yeah they love me everywhere [00:21.54]I used to cop in Harlem hola my Dominicanos [00:24.30]Right there up on Broadway [00:25.80]Brought me back to that McDonalds [00:27.21]Took it to my stash spot 560 State Street [00:30.02]Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whippin' pastry [00:32.63]Cruising down 8th street off white Lexus [00:35.44]Driving so slow but BK is from Texas [00:38.12]Me I'm out that Bed Stuy home of that boy Biggie [00:41.00]Now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me [00:43.84]Say what up to Ty Ty still sipping Mai Tais [00:46.52]Sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high fives [00:49.55]I be spiked out I can trip a referee [00:51.87]Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from [00:55.18]New York concrete jungle [00:59.70]Where dreams are made of [01:02.27]There's nothing you can't do [01:04.54] [01:05.06]Now you're in New York [01:07.63] [01:09.86]These streets will make you feel brand new [01:13.17]Big lights will inspire you [01:15.63] [01:16.21]Let's hear it for New York [01:18.93]New York New York [01:21.43] [01:22.71]Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game [01:25.40]Sh*t I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can [01:28.30]You should know I bleed blue but I ain't a crip though [01:30.93]But I got a gang of n**ga walking with my clique though [01:33.69]Welcome to the melting pot corners where we sellin' rocks [01:36.39]Afrika Bambaataa s**t home of the hip hop [01:39.08]Yellow cab gypsy cab dollar cab holla back [01:41.80]For foreigners it ain't fair they act like they forgot how to add [01:44.74]Eight million stories out there in the naked city [01:47.87]It's a pity half of y'all won't make it [01:50.25]Me I gotta plug Special Ed I Got It Made [01:52.83]If Jeezy's paying LeBron I'm paying Dwyane Wade [01:55.37] [01:56.03]Three dice Cee lo three card Monte [01:58.56]Labor Day Parade rest in peace Bob Marley [02:01.39]Statue of Liberty long live the World Trade [02:04.20]Long live the king yo I'm from the Empire State that's [02:07.16]New York concrete jungle [02:11.59]Where dreams are made of [02:14.26]There's nothing you can't do [02:16.61] [02:17.38]Now you're in New York [02:19.72] [02:21.69]These streets will make you feel brand new [02:25.19]Big lights will inspire you [02:28.20]Let's hear it for New York [02:30.93]New York New York [02:33.13] [02:35.44]Lights is blindin' girls need blinders [02:38.03]So they can step out of bounds quick the side lines is [02:41.00]Lined with casualties who sip the life casually [02:43.49]Then gradually become worse don't bite the apple Eve [02:46.51]Caught up in the in crowd now you're in style [02:48.79]And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out [02:51.74]The city of sin is a pity on a whim [02:54.26]Good girls gone bad the city's filled with 'em [02:56.92] [02:57.50]Mami took a bus trip and now she got her bust out [03:00.25]Everybody ride her just like a bus route [03:02.83] [03:03.52]Hail Mary to the city you're a virgin [03:05.63]And Jesus can't save you life starts when the church ends [03:08.57]Came here for school graduated to the high life [03:11.15]Ball players rap stars addicted to the limelight [03:13.97]MDMA got you feeling like a champion [03:16.70]The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambien [03:19.25]New York concrete jungle [03:23.68]Where dreams are made of [03:26.22]There's nothing you can't do [03:28.52] [03:29.31]Now you're in New York [03:32.19] [03:33.72]These streets will make you feel brand new [03:37.29]Big lights will inspire you [03:40.17]Let's hear it for New York [03:42.75]New York New York [03:46.27] [03:47.67]One hand in the air for the big city [03:50.25]Street lights big dreams all looking pretty [03:53.05]No place in the world that can compare [03:55.81]Put your lighters in the air [03:57.36]Everybody say [03:58.22]Yeah [04:00.06] [04:01.43]Yeah [04:03.17]New York concrete jungle [04:07.94]Where dreams are made of [04:10.51]There's nothing you can't do [04:13.33]Now you're in New York [04:16.74] [04:17.65]These streets will make you feel brand new [04:21.65]Big lights will inspire you [04:23.94] [04:24.54]Let's hear it for New York [04:27.25]New York New York