o9.18.o9 continued…

    Empire State of Mind

    Everytime I listen to this song I get chills…

    Empire State Of Mind Lyrics

    [Jay-Z]
    yeah
    Yeah I’m out that Brooklyn.
    Yeah 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 (Hey yo)
    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, it’s from Texas!!) 
    Me I’m out that BedStuy
    Home of that boy Biggie
    But now I live on Billboard
    and I brought my boys with me
    Say what up to Ta-ta
    Still sipping Mai Tais
    Sitting courtside
    Knicks and Nets give me high-5s
    N**ga, I be Spiked out
    I could trip a referee
    …tell by my attitude that I’m MOST DEFINITELY FROM…

    [Alicia Keys]
    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

    [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 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-ggas walking with my clique though,
    welcome to the melting pot,
    corners where we selling rocks,
    Afrika bambaataa sh-t,
    home of the hip hop,
    yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back,
    for foreigners it ain’t fitted they forgot how to act,
    8 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 a special and I got it made,
    If Jeezy’s payin LeBron, I’m paying Dwayne Wade,
    3 dice cee-lo
    3 card 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…

    [Alicia Keys]
    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

    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 sip the lite casually, then 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 and now she got her bust out,
    everybody ride her, just like a bus route,
    Hail Mary to the city your 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

    [Alicia Keys]
    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

    [Alicia Keys]
    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 yeaaahh
    come on, come,
    yeah,

    [Alicia Keys]
    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

    [sigh]