(Can you say New York City?)
Everyday a star is born
Clap for `em, clap for `em, clap for `em, hey

(Can you say New York City?)
Everyday a star is born
Clap for `em, clap for `em, clap for `em, hey

Have seen Ma$e do it, seen Ye do it
X came through, caught lighter fluid
Still I came through it, clap for `em
But I`m the Blueprint, I`m like the map for `em

I dropped another classic, make Puff pass it
Nobody could touch Puff back when Puff had it
Wayne`s scorching, I`ll applaud him
If he keep going, pass the torch to him

50 came through like hurricanes do
I thought I`d finish his ass at Summer Jam 2
I had the `Illmatic` on bootleg
S**t was so ahead, thought we was all dead

Wayne did `A Milli`, 50 did a millie, Ye too
But what Em did was silly, the white boy blossomed
After Dre endorsed him, his flow on renegade
F**king awesome, applaud him

(Can you say New York City?)
Everyday a star is born
Clap for `em, clap for `em, clap for `em, hey

(Can you say New York City?)
Everyday a star is born
Clap for `em, clap for `em, clap for `em, hey

Snoop Dogg did, Nelly came down
Face Mobb, kept it ghetto for the H-town
Luda moved digits after he moved bitches
Drake`s up next, see what he`ll do with it

Rule had a run, couple movie parts
T.I literally wanted to shoot up the charts
Wadup Jeezy, what it do?
Y`all remind me of us in early `92

Outkast landed, 3-thou was ill
Like a male version of Lauren Hill
Mobb Deep shook it but Prodigy took it a lil` too far
Can`t f**k with Brooklyn

Wu-Tang gang bang, Meth ate
Rae` took on the date with the Purple Tape
Passed on to Ason and then Ghostface
They had a hell of a run, standing ova, hey

Everyday a star is born
Clap for `em, clap for `em, clap for `em, hey
Everyday a star is born
Clap for `em, clap for `em, clap for `em, hey

And I am one of one
Can`t you see just along my front?
My brain, new Lou sun shine
Been a star since I was back in one time
One time give it up for him

December 4th, a star was born, clap for him
He went from moving that corner
To this corner office is so enormous
Hey, Pres Carter watch him get a Monica on all day

Hey, got so many different monikers
But only one Jay, they come they go
Some real some foe, some friends some hoes
But no I goes nowhere, this Hov

(Can you say New York City?)
Everyday a star is born
Clap for `em, clap for `em, clap for `em, hey

(Can you say New York City?)
Everyday a star is born
Clap for `em, clap for `em, clap for `em, hey

And could I be a star
This fame in this game have to change who you are
Could I be the same one who came from a far away life?
Just to make it in this Broadway lights

Now shining in the broad day light, go figure
A slow transition from a lil` broke ni**a from the Ville
Got a deal a real life saver
Dreams of being behind the wheel like Jada

I chill now couple of lil` ice later
Cole, you go the glow like a lil` light-saber
So clap for him then applaud Hov, he gave him a platform
Flow so sick, thought he wrote the rap for him, no sir

The flow`s cold as a shoulder of a gold
Digging hoes when a broke ni**a approaches
Told ya, I`m focused man
I`ll let you muthaf**kers soak it in

(Can you say New York City?)
Everyday a star is born
Clap for `em, clap for `em, clap for `em, hey

(Can you say New York City?)
Everyday a star is born
Clap for `em, clap for `em, clap for `em, hey