As we previously reported, news recently broke that Alicia Keys and Jay-Z would team up again to do a part two of their “Empire State Of Mind” [watch here] track that was featured on Jigga’s “Blueprint 3″ album. Now the piano playing singer has debuted the song during a live performance this past week when she was featured on iHeartRadio. The song will be included on Alicia Keys’ upcoming December release “The Element Of Freedom” and feature a new verse from Jigga. The video for the first “Empire State of Mind” was directed by Hype Williams and Keys described it as a masterpiece. “The way it’s put together, it is so New York. You totally get it and understand it. It’s artistic. It’s hard. It’s beautiful. It’s, like, everything,” she said. “And definitely getting to be in the middle of Times Square on my piano [with] Jay, representing our home city, is a triumph. It was unbelievable.”
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I was actually one of the lucky people who was able to attend this show through a contest i won on http://www.iheartradio.com and let me tell you, if you think this sounds good on video IMAGINE how unreal it was in person! I got goosebumps, I even get them right now watching it. If you want to see the WHOLE show you can add this widget to your myspace or facebook like I did.
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Enjoy!! I love A Keys!!