Comedian Billy Eichner has released his video for "Forest Hills State of Mind" — a new take on Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" (those are so popular these days!). He calls it his "Jew boy version of the uber-smash hit." Bonus: SNL-alum Rachel Dratch plays the part of Alicia Keys.
Full lyrics after the jump; and this morning Eichner predicted that "next year Rachel Dratch will win a Golden Globe for her incredibly moving work" in the video.
I was born in Forest Hills To a Jewish yenta Had my circumsicion Forest hills jewish centerDad got a discount
Taught me to finagle
They cut the skin off my penis
While they ate bagelsand when I grew up
I learned to play the tuba
And baby you can tell by penis
Im not from cubaForced to play little league
Even though I hated it
And when I watched spice on pay per view
I masterbated itHated playing sports
I preferred the mall
Youre not good at basketball
Just because youre tall!Strutting down
71st and continental
they made me get bar mitzvahd
as if I was yentlloved playing clue
hated playing yahtzee
ironically my rabbi
was a bar mitzvah naziso I got bar mitzvahd
and though I didnt wanna
the theme of my bar mitzvah party
was Madonna!chorus
in forest hills
concrete jungle where dreams are made of
theres nothing you cant do
when youre in forest hills
the city lights will inspire you
upper middle class jews
walk around forest hills, forest hills, forest hills
rosh HashanahI went to museums
And the planetarium
I was the toughest motherfucker
At the aquariumWalking down queens blvd
Scared of the traffic ah
Only 8 year old sneaking in to out of Africahung out with my aunt joyce
she was like my art coach
we would go see foreign movies
starring julliette binochewe saw my left foot
starring Daniel day lewis
to me, my aunt joyce
was such an influential jewessfed me prune hamentashen
fed me prune danish
why the fuck did everything
have to have a prune in it?little kosher hot dogs
nothing nutricious
and you know theres nothing as delicious
as knishesI would go to broadway shows
I was all around town
and sometimes I stayed at home
watched Murphy brownin forest hills
concrete jungle where dreams are made of
you can watch Murphy brown
when youre in forest hills, forest hills
(give it up for Murphy brown, yo)
you know theres nothing you cant do
upper middle class jews
walk around forest hills, forest hills forest hills
(sometimes I would make a poop in Barnes and Noble)then I went to Stuyvesant
felt so much pressure
to become a big success
like fran drescherstandin on the e train
listening to vocals
but if I wanted to sit
Id stay on the localyeah I studied real hard
learned self reliance
and I shot a bunch of geeks
down at Bronx Sciencethe kids at Stuyvesant
were nerdy and zitty
they make the kids on glee
look like the cast of new jack cityI moved out of forest hills
Goodbye shlomos
I live in manhattan
with all the other homosbut I go back to forest hills
and think about the childhood I had
now look at me as a baby with my dad!In forest hills -
concrete jungle where dreams are made of
theres nothing you cant do
when youre from forest hills
the city lights will inspire you
Upper middle class jews
Over in forest hills, forest hills, forest hillsOne hand in the air for forest hills
Lots of women with furs and diet pills
No place in the world that can compare
Lots of old Russian ladies that are shaped like a pear, like a pear
Like a pear, Like a pear!In forest hills
Concrete jungles where dreams are made of
People shaped like pears
When youre from forest hills, forest
The streets will make you feel brand new
Upper middle class Jews
Walk around Forest Hills, Forest Hills, Forest Hills