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Times being what they are, the need for this "unifying" type of hit becomes more apparent, acting as a tiny reaffirmation of a collective self that's becoming easier and easier to lose sight of completely. And Jay, working with an almost exact approximation of his flow on "Run This Town", plays the nonchalant tour guide, pointing out landmarks to fill space even as his train of thought begins to break up. It's not that there's even anything terribly out-of-the-ordinary going on here: Keys' hook swings for the upper decks and subsequently the gut, working that "bright lights, big city" angle that appeals to the bridge-and-tunnel set as effectively as it does to people who've never actually visited NYC. Maybe there's something about the whole concept of the "New York City anthem" that's always going to resonate with and, to borrow a word, inspire us. What makes "Empire State of Mind" so undeniable is its innate magnetism- we can't help but drool over a big hook and even bigger ego, regardless of metropolitan affiliation. This thing was being banged to death, even earlier this week as the Phils stared down the short end of a daunting 3-1 series.
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Having recently transplanted to Philadelphia, where I watched the newly-appointed NLCS championship Phillies wait patiently to face the Yanks in the World Series, it became pretty clear that there wasn't a fucking chance I'd ever hear "Empire State of Mind" again in 2009 anywhere outside of regionally-insensitive corporate radio or hackneyed Philly-centric "remixes".īut oddly enough, there it was: at the bank and the corner store, pumping out of car windows on just about every block. A big, blustery scream-it-out-the-top-of-the-limo track, "Empire" checks most of the Boisterous Big Apple Anthem boxes, in the tradition of now-classics like Rakim's "New York (Ya Out There?)".
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The minute Mariano Rivera closed out the ninth inning against the Angels to win the Yankees a 40th ALCS pennant, it went without saying that New York had already found its World Series theme song in "Empire State of Mind", one of a precious few highlights on Jay-Z's mostly half-baked The Blueprint 3.