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[Verse 1]
              
Yeah I'm outta

   
 Brooklyn, now

 I'm down in T

ribeca
 
Right next to De Niro, where I'll be hood forever
              
I'm the new Si


natra, and sin

ce I've made i

t here
 
People love me everywhere, yeah they love me anywhere
              
I used to cop 

   
in Harlem, all

 of my Dominic

ano's
 
Right there up on Broadway, brought me back to that McDonald's
              
Took it to my 


stash spot, 56

0 State Street
              
Catch me in th

  
e kitchen like

 a Simmons whi

pping pastry
              
Cruisin' down 


on 8th Street,

 off-white Lex

us

Drivin' so slow,but BK is from Texas
              
Me, I'm at tha

  
t Bed-Stuy, ho

me of that boy

 Biggie

Now I live on billboard and I brought my boys with me
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
            
Say, "What up?

 
" to Ty-Ty, st

ill sipping Ma

i Tai
             
Sitting courts

#
ide, Knicks & 

Nets give me h

igh fives
           
Homey, I'll be

 Spiked out, I

 could trip a 

referee

Tell by my attitude that I'm most definitely from...
 
 
[Chorus]
   
   New York
            
   Concrete ju

              
ngle where dre

        
ams are made o

f
              
   There's not

         
hing you can’t

 do
              
   Now you’re 

   
in New York
            
   These stree

              
ts will make y

        
ou feel brand 

new
              
   Big lights 

        
will inspire y

ou
              
   Now you're 

   
in New York, N

ew York, New Y

ork
 
 
[Verse 2]
            
Catch me at th

  
e X with OG I'

m at a Yankee 

game
 
Yeah, I made the Yankee hat more famous then a Yankee can
              
You should kno

    
w I bleed blue

, but I'm not 

a Crip though

But I've got a gang of people rolling with my clique yo
            
Welcome to the

 
 melting pot, 

corners where 

we selling roc

k
 
Africa Bambata stuff, home of the hip-hop
            
Yellow cab, gy

psy cab, dolla

r back, holla 

back

For foreigners that ain't fifty They forgot how to act
            
Eight million 

    
stories out th

ere and they a

re all naked

City is a pity, half of you all won't make it
           
Me, I got a pl

ug, Special Ed

 I got it made

If Jesus paying Le Bron, I'm paying Dwayne Wade
 
 
[Pre-Chorus]
     
Three card, Ce

e-lo, Three di

ce, Monte
            
Labour Day Par

ade, rest in p

eace Bob Marle

y
          
Statue of Libe

rty, long live

 the World Tra

de

Long live the King, yo I'm from the Empire of
 
 
[Chorus]
   
   New York
            
   Concrete ju

              
ngle where dre

        
ams are made o

f
              
   There's not

         
hing you can’t

 do
              
   Now you’re 

   
in New York
            
   These stree

              
ts will make y

        
ou feel brand 

new
              
   Big lights 

        
will inspire y

ou
              
   Now you're 

   
in New York, N

ew York, New Y

ork
 
 
[Bridge 1]

Lights is blin

ding, girls ne

ed blinders
   
So they can st

ep out of boun

ds quick
              
The sidelines 

    
is blind with 

casualties
              
Sipping life c

              
asually, then 

    
gradually beco

ming worse

Don't bite the apple, Eve, caught up in the in crowd

Now you're in 

style
           
End of the win

ter gets cold,

 en vogue, wit

h your skin ou

t
    
City full of s

in, it's a pit

y on a whim
     
Good girls gon

e bad, the cit

y's filled wit

h them

Look, Mommy to

ok a bus trip,

 now she got h

er bust out

Everybody ride

 her, just lik

e a bus route

And hail Mary 

to the city, y

ou're a virgin
    
And Jesus can'

t save you, li

fe starts when

 the church en

ds

Brought up in 

school, gradua

ted to the hig

h life

Rap players, b

all players, g

amblers and li

melight

got you feelin

' like a champ

ion

The city never sleeps, take an Ambien
 
 
[Chorus]
      
   In New York
            
   Concrete ju

              
ngle where dre

        
ams are made
              
   There's not

         
hing you can’t

 do
              
   Now you’re 

   
in New York
            
   These stree

              
ts will make y

        
ou feel brand 

new
              
   Big lights 

        
will inspire y

ou
              
   Now you're 

   
in New York, N

ew York, New Y

ork
 
 
[Bridge 2]

   One hand in

 the air for t

he big city

Big lights, street lights, all looking pretty

  No place in 

the world to c

ompare
           
  Put your lig

              
hters in the a

              
ir, everybody 

       
say "Yeah", sa

y "Yeah!"
 
 
[Chorus]
   
   New York
            
   Concrete ju

              
ngle where dre

        
ams are made o

f
              
   There's not

         
hing you can’t

 do
              
   Now you’re 

   
in New York
            
   These stree

              
ts will make y

        
ou feel brand 

new
              
   Big lights 

        
will inspire y

ou
              
   Now you're 

             
in New York, N

         
ew York, New Y

ork
 
 
[Outro]
   
   New York
            
   Concrete ju

              
ngle where dre

        
ams are made o

f
 
   There's nothing you can’t do
              
   Now you’re 

   
in New York
            
   These stree

              
ts will make y

        
ou feel brand 

new
 
   Big lights will inspire you
              
   Now you're 

           
in New York
              
   Now you're 

         
in New York
              
   Now you're 

           
in New York