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?)". 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.
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