By Gabriela Resto-Montero
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — The Yankees won their 27th championship Wednesday, but Jay-Z is also triumphing this World Series with his ubiqutous city anthem, "Empire State of Mind."
The love letter to the city, a duet with Alicia Keys that appears on the rapper's "The Blueprint 3" album, jumped from the No. 13 to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart last week and continues to be heard all over the city.
In the song, the rapper embarks on a trip of Manhattan through Tribeca, Broadway, 8th Street and other locations. The lyrical tour of the city follows Jay-Z's route from his days as an admitted drug hustler to musical megastar.
"I used to cop in Harlem, all of my Dominicanos. Right there up on Broadway, brought me back to that McDonald's," Jay-Z raps in reference to the McDonald's located at 125th Street and Broadway.
Although he doesn't shy away from calling out ballers and rappers for living the high life, Jay-Z ultimately plugs New York as the place where dreams come true.
"In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of," Keys sings. "There's nothing you can't do, now you're in New York. These streets will make you feel brand new."
Jay-Z shouts out Frank Sinatra in a nod to the man who belted out the Yankee-stadium classic "New York, New York".
"I'm the new Sinatra, and since I made it here, I can make it anywhere," he raps.
He also name-drops his Tribeca neighbor Robert De Niro, but the most surprising is a clever play on Vogue Editor Anna Wintour's status in the city.
"Now you're in style and in the winter — [when rapped, sounded out as Anna Wintour] gets cold, en vogue with your skin out," he raps.
The rapper's wife, Beyonce Knowles, was featured on the cover of Vogue in April 2009.
The lyric, "I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can," went off without any visible flinch from players when Jay-Z and Keys performed the song at Yankee Stadium before Game 2 on Oct. 29.
With the success of "Empire State of Mind", Jay-Z joins the ranks of other artists who have immortalized the city in song.
Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" continues to close out Yankee games.
In 2001, Ryan Adams' "New York" became an anthem after the video, which was shot days before the attacks of 9/11, premiered.
Billy Joel performed "New York State of Mind" at Yankee Stadium in 1990 and Bob Dylan's "Positively 4th Street" doesn't ever mention Manhattan, but nevertheless became a symbol of Greenwich Village in the 60s.
Hip hop started getting in on the New York memorials with the Beastie Boys and their hallmark 1995 EP "Root Down".
In 2005, 50 Cent released "I Run New York" and Fat Joe and Ja Rule rolled out their own "New York".
