The second reference to a tree in the song, albeit symbolic, is the billboard which towers over us
while providing digital information on the accoutrements of success. Our possessions
define us and the billboard guides us in that definition.  The chorus of the song refers to the
concrete jungle: ``In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made, oh''\footcite{Empire}. The
city is a realm with a nature of its own, where the primal instinct of humanity still fights and survives
within their environ, but what holds the position of immortality to the inhabitants is the material.  That
which is above them, like the canopy of the trees, is the billboard. ``Now I live on billboard/And I
brought my boys with me''\footcite{Empire}  Jay-Z is saying he has attained the immortality of wealth
and by becoming part of the iconography of the concrete jungle itself,  he too holds a symbolic
sacredness.  His face is above us on the billboard, and he also brought those closest to him there as
well.  In \textit{Introducing Religion}, Eliade describes the sacred as power and reality.  Reality in the
aspect of the battle between the profane realm (unreal) and the sacred realm (real).  Eliade says, ``Thus
it is easy to understand that religious man deeply wants \textit{to be}, to participate in \textit{reality},
to be saturated with power.''\footcite{IntroRel5}
%The images Jay-Z portrays of himself on the billboards
%are one of power.  Its his name in lights above us, this lofty visual is again repeated at the end of the
%video.
As described earlier, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys are shot on a red lit staircase for the last chorus of
the song.  The camera swoops up to them from below, seemingly as though we are climbing to their
level, and when the camera swoops past them the only thing higher than them are billboards.
% Interestingly the billboards are not advertising their names, but that of large corporations
% that are only half blurred.