| Yeah, yeah, I’ma up at Brooklyn, now I’m down in Tribeca
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| Right next to DeNiro, but I’ll be hood forever
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| I’m the new Sinatra and since I made it here
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| I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere
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| I used to cop in Harlem, all of my Dominicanos, right there up on Broadway
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| Brought me back to that McDonald’s, took it to my stash spot
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| Five Sixty Stage street, catch me in the kitchen, like a Simmons whipping pastry
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| Cruising down 8th Street, off white Lexus, driving so slow but BK is from Texas
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| Me I’m up at Bedsty, home of that boy Biggie, now I live on Billboard
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| And I brought my boys with me, say what up to Ty Ty, still sipping Malta
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| Sitting court side Knicks and Nets give me high fives
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| I be spiked out, I can trip a referee, tell by my attitude that I most
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| definitely from
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| In New York
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| Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
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| There’s nothing you can’t do
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| Now you’re in New York
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| These streets will make you feel brand new
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| Big lights will inspire you
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| Hear it for New York, New York, New York
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| Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game
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| Shit, I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can
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| You should know I bleed Blue, but I ain’t a crip though
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| But I got a gang of niggas, walking with my click though
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| Welcome to the melting pot, corners where we selling rocks
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| Afrika bambaataa shit, home of the Hip Hop
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| Yellow cab, gypsy cab, dollar cab, holla back
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| For foreigners, like Frans and Glennis, they don’t now how to act
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| 8 million stories, out there and they’re naked
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| Cities is a pity half of y’all won’t make it
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| Me, I gotta plug Special Ed «I got it made»
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| If Jesus paying LeBron, I’m paying Dwayne Wade
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| 3 dice Cee-lo, 3 card Marley, Labor Day parade, rest in peace, Bob Marley
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| Statue of Liberty, long live the World trade, long live the king yo
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| I’m from the empire state that’s
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| In New York
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| Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
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| There’s nothing you can’t do
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| Now you’re in New York
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| These streets will make you feel brand new
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| Big lights will inspire you
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| Hear it for New York, New York, New York
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| One hand in the air for the big city
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| Street lights, big dreams, all looking pretty
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| No place in the world that can compare
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| Put your lighters in the air, everybody say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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| In New York
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| Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
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| There’s nothing you can’t do
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| Now you’re in New York
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| These streets will make you feel brand new
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| Big lights will inspire you
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| Hear it for New York |