Alicia Keys and Jay-Z made New York lyrics come ... Their song still hits differently today. Jay-Z and Alicia Keys showed us what New York means in “Empire State of Mind.” ...

And they called me and asked me to write a song. And they had I love New York. That was their line. And I wrote the rest of the lyrics. Two years later, it became the state song of New York ...

“Joe actually got up and sang a couple lines, ‘West Virginia country roads take me home,’ and ‘New York ... and read some of the lyrics of the current state song aloud, arguing that ...