NEW YORK—Whoa, baseball fans!
Check out the lyrics of "Empire State of Mind," the hit song Jay-Z and fellow New Yorker Alicia Keys plan to perform at Thursday night's World Series Game 2 at Yankee Stadium.
Don't freak. Major League Baseball says you'll hear a more wholesome rendition.
"There's a clean version that goes out on radio, and that's what they'll use. It doesn't have bad words," Marla Miller, MLB's senior vice president of special events, said Tuesday.
Before his World Series performance of "Empire State of Mind," Jay-Z got to play the field - literally. Hov told ESPN's "Mike and Mike in the Morning" that he got a chance.
NEW YORK - If the Yankees were looking to change their tune heading into game two of the World Series, they couldn't have picked better musical guests. Jay-Z and Alicia.
The lyrics to Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" are sometimes as raw as New York, but it looks like the rapper will clean up that language when he performs his city anthem at the World Series. Jay-Z.
NEW YORK—The lyrics to Jay'z "Empire State of Mind" are sometimes as raw as New York, but it looks like the rapper will clean up that language when he performs his city anthem at the World Series.
Fans will have to wait an extra day to catch Jay-Z and Alicia Keys teaming up for a performance of their Big Apple anthem, "Empire State of Mind," at the World Series.
![[HD] Jay Z & Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Live At World Series 2009 Game 2 Yankee Stadium)](http://img.youtube.com/vi/BiryjGi6wZQ/default.jpg)
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