Yeah
Yeah I'm up
at Brooklyn
Now I'm 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 off of
Broadway
Brought me back to
that McDonalds
took it to my stash spot
560 State Street
catch me in the kitchen
like Simmons
whipping pastry
Cruising down 8th street
off-white Lexus
driving so slow
but BK is from Texas!
Me I'm up at Bedstock
home of that boy Biggie
now I live on Billboard
And I brought my boys
with me, say what up
to Ta-ta
Still sipping Mai Tais
sitting court side
knicks and nets
give me high-5
N***a I be spiked out
I can trip a referee
Tell by my attitude
that I'm most
definitely from
New York!
Concrete jungle
where dreams are
made of
There's nothing
you can't do
now you're
in New York!
These streets will make
you feel brand new
the lights will
inspire you
Let's hear it
for New York
New York
New York
I made you hot n***a
Catch me at the X with
OG at a Yankee game
s**t I made the Yankee
hat more famous than
a Yankee can
You should know
I bleed blue
but I ain't a crip tho'
But I got a gang of n****s
walking with my
clique tho'
Welcome to the
melting pot
Corners where we
selling rocks
Africa bambaataa s**t
home of the hip hop
Yellow cab, gypsy cab,
dollar cab, holla back,
for foreigners
it ain't fitting
Act like they forgot
how to act
eight million stories
out there and
they're naked
City it's a pity
half of y'all
won't make it
Me I gotta plug special
and I got it made
if Jeezy's payin' Le Bron
I'm paying Dwayne Wade
Three dice Cee-lo
Three card Marley
Labour 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 that's
In New York!
Concrete jungle
where dreams
are made of
There's nothing
you can't do
now you're in
New York!
These streets will make
you feel brand new
the lights will
inspire you
Let's hear it
for New York
New York
New York
Lights is blinding
girls need blinders
so they can step
out of bounds quick
the side lines is
Blind with casualties
who sip their life casually
they gradually become
worse
Don't bite the apple Eve
caught up in the
"in crowd"
now you're in-style
And in the winter
gets cold en vogue
with your skin out
The city of sin is
a pity on a whim
good girls gone bad
the city's filled
with them
Mommy took a bus trip
now she got her bust out
everybody riding her
just like a bus route
Hail Mary to the city
you're a Virgin
if Jesus can't save you
life starts when
the church ends
I came here for school
graduated to the high life
ball players, rap stars,
addicted to the limelight
M D M A got you
feeling like a champion
the city never sleeps
better slip you a Ambien
New York!
Concrete jungle
where dreams
are made of
There's nothing
you can't do
now you're
in New York!
These streets
will make you
feel brand new
the lights will
inspire you
Let's hear it
for New York
New York
New York
One hand in the air
for the big city
street lights
big dreams
all looking pretty
No place in the world
that can compare
Put your lighters
in the air
everybody say yeah-ah
Yeah-ah
I'm in New York!
Concrete jungle
where dreams
are made of
There's nothing
you can't do
now you're
in New York!
These streets
will make you
feel brand new
the lights will
inspire you
Let's hear it
for New York
New York
New York...