Who Has The True New York City Anthem?
Visitors to Madison Square Garden’s website have the opportunity to vote for what they feel the true anthem of New York City is. The only options are Frank Sinatra’s timeless “New York, New York”, and Jay-Z’s three-months-old-and-already-overstayed-its-welcome “Empire State of Mind.”
It’s rather interesting that this topic has even been brought up for debate as Jay’s song doesn’t exactly paint the best portrait of the Big Apple: drugs, prostitution, and so forth.
However, if MSG wants to keep the rules a little loose for what the true New York City anthem is, here’s a few more suggestions:
Tru-Life “The New New York”
French Montana feat. Jadakiss “New York Minute”
Cam’ron feat. Jay-Z & Juelz Santana “Welcome To New York City”
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five “New York, New York”
Ja Rule feat. Fat Joe & Jadakiss “New York”
Busta Rhymes “New York Sh*t”
Odyssey “Native New Yorker”
James Brown “Down And Out In New York City”
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Comments (4)
There were a couple I didn’t remember till I played them. One song that was left off: “8 Million Stories” – Kurtis Blow feat. Run DMC.
For me, hands down, it’s Busta’s “New York S**t”!!!!!! “I represent the Giants, Jets..” “Gods on the corner buildin’ 5% lessons” “Got the world followin the NY script.” “International chicks on my NY d!ck.” That’s classic!!!
All things I remember from my teens and my 20’s on on that. Talkin about how dudes from other places be gettin mad when girls jumped on a fella when she heard that NY talk. (You n!ggas know we deserve the props we get) That was the truth back in the day!! LOL
Odyssey Native New Yorker. Partially because I had it chopped up for a track. Native New Yorker. There are too many “New Yorkers” today that aren’t even from New York.
Of course the old school gets respect. But for the sake of the new school, I love the Bussa Bus joint. The Big Bang is a classic.
That French Montana joint hot as hell though. I never heard it before.
I’ll let the Eastcoast cat’s decide this one most of that shyt up there fat den a muh-phucca’