[00:28.88] Yeah,
[00:29.14] Yeah, I'm ma up at Brooklyn,
[00:36.30] Now I'm down in Tribe ca,
[00:36.52] Right next to DeNiro,
[00:36.83] But I'll be hood forever,
[00:37.98] I'm the new Sinatra,
[00:38.17] And since I made it here,
[00:38.45] I can make it anywhere,
[00:38.80] Yeah they love me everywhere,
[00:38.93] I used to cop in Harlem,
[00:39.28] All of my Dominicans
[01:59.27] Right there up on Broadway,
[01:59.56] Brought me back to that McDonald's,
[01:59.83] Took it to my stash spot,
[02:00.05] 5-60 State street,
[02:00.34] Catch me in the kitchen like a Simmons whipping Pastry,
[02:00.61] Cruising down 8th street,
[02:00.87] Off white Lexus,
[02:01.17] Driving so slow but BK is from Texas,
[02:01.41] Me I'm up at Bed Study,
[02:04.09] Home of that boy Biggie,
[02:04.35] Now I live on billboard,
[02:04.62] And I brought my boys with me,
[02:04.84] Say what up to Ty Ty, still sipping Mai-tai
[02:05.11] Sitting court side Knicks and Nets give me high fives,
[02:05.47] N-gga I be Spiked out, I can trip a referee,
[02:05.70] Tell by my attitude that I most definitely from
[02:05.99] In New York,
[02:06.29] Concrete jungle where dreams are made of,
[02:06.42] There's nothing you can't do,
[02:06.73] Now you're in New York,
[04:00.09] These streets will make you feel brand new,
[04:00.35] The lights will inspire you,
[04:00.65] Let's hear it for New York, New York, New York
[04:00.80] I made you hot nigga,
[04:01.19] Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game,
[04:01.43] Shit I made the Yankee hat more famous than a yankee can,
[04:01.68] You should know I bleed Blue, but I ain't a crip tho,
[04:01.96] But I got a gang of niggas walking with my clique though,
[04:02.22] Welcome to the melting pot,
[04:02.42] Corners where we selling rocks,
[04:02.72] Afrika bambaataa shit,
[04:03.09] Home of the hip hop,
[04:03.28] Yellow cap, gypsy cap, dollar cab, holla back,
[04:03.55] For foreigners it aint fitted they forgot how to act,
[04:03.85] 8 million stories out there and their naked,
[04:04.02] Cities is a pity half of y'all won't make it,
[04:04.35] Me I gotta plug Special Ed and I got it made,
[04:04.61] If Jeezy's paying LeBron, I'm paying Dwayne Wade,
[04:04.88] 3 dice cee-lo
[04:05.16] 3 card Monte,
[04:05.48] Labor day parade, rest in peace Bob Marley,
[04:05.64] Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade,
[04:05.99] Long live the king yo,
[04:06.22] I'm from the empire state that's
[04:06.45] Lights is blinding,
[04:06.77] Girls need blinders
[04:07.01] So they can step out of bounds quick,
[04:07.26] The side lines is blind with casualties,
[04:07.56] Who sipping life casually, then gradually become worse,
[04:07.84] Don't bite the apple Eve,
[04:08.08] Caught up in the in crowd,
[04:08.34] Now your in-style,
[04:08.69] And in the winter gets cold en vogue with your skin out,
[04:08.83] The city of sin is a pity on a whim,
[04:09.14] Good girls gone bad, the cities filled with them,
[04:09.48] Mami took a bus trip and now she got her bust out,
[04:09.66] Everybody ride her, just like a bus route,
[04:09.94] Hail Mary to the city your a Virgin,
[04:10.24] And Jesus CAN save you! life starts when church starts,
[04:10.48] Came here for school, graduated to the high life,
[04:10.76] Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight,
[04:11.06] MDMA got you feeling like a champion,
[04:11.27] The city never sleeps better slip you a Ambient
[04:11.53] One hand in the air for the big city,
[04:11.81] Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty,
[04:12.01] No place in the World that can compare,
[04:12.34] Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah
[04:12.66] Come on, come,
[04:12.82] Yeah,
[04:13.12] 