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New Jay-Z and Alicia Keys!

Filed under: Jay-Z > Alicia Keys


Jay-Z - "Empire State Of Mind" ft. Alicia Keys

Check out their video for Empire State of Mind (above)!

95 comments to “New Jay-Z and Alicia Keys!”



  1. 1

    lil mama's missing.



  2. 2

    This is legendary i love it so much. JAY U ARE AMAZING KEEP DOING WHAT UR DOING. I LOVE U. XXXXXXX



  3. 3

    Almost perfect, but missing the Apollo Theater!



  4. 4

    That sucks sooooo bad . what horseshit/vomit. It makes me sick

    First!!



  5. 5

    love it



  6. 6

    These guys make me proud to be a born and bred new yoker!! bitchin video! amazeballs!!



  7. 7

    Gawd that Jay Z in one HOMELY fucker!! eeks!!



  8. 8

    this song would be great if you took jay z out of it…



  9. 9

    Legendary? What the fuck is legendary about this? This is trash, another crappy rap about New York. I'm sad that Alicia Keys' talent is wasted on this.



  10. 10

    Re: posturing

    Agreed. He looks like an Ape, and he can't sing, all he does is talk over music. Call him a poet but please don't call him a musician. He doesn't make music. He makes poems. Someone else created the beat some one else sang the song, he just arranged and talked over it. Big Fucking Deal, my 5 year old can do that.



  11. 11

    She has fat ass thighs. Stairmaster bitch!



  12. 12

    I live in NY but every song and every movie is "New York this and New York that"…it's so lame now.



  13. 13

    Loves it! Fabulous!



  14. 14

    Re: rokstarr – LOL



  15. 15

    nrhwywi. Just wanna get go out to dinner and chill. ym b!



  16. 16

    I watched "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" recently and noticed that the song on the piano played near the end sounds like this one. Did J get his idea for this song from that movie?



  17. 17

    I see we have some jay-z haters here. this songs hot.

  18. MUNON says – reply to this


    18

    It just makes me wanna puke!!!



  19. 19

    I'm sooo disgusted with anything Jay-z puts out (in large part based on his personality alone). and alicia keys, I was a huge fan in 2001-02, but her sound needs to be reinvented.
    __________________
    huge thumbs down. the music industry is in a serious downward spiral. who knew 90s music would be recognized as classic masterpiece type efforts (compared to music put out today)



  20. 20

    I'm sooo disgusted with anything Jay-z puts out (in large part based on his personality alone). and alicia keys, I was a huge fan in 2001-02, but her sound needs to be reinvented.
    __________________
    the music industry is in a serious downward spiral. who knew 90s music would be recognized as classic masterpiece type efforts (compared to music put out today)



  21. 21

    I'm sooo disgusted with anything Jay-z puts out (in large part based on his personality alone). and alicia keys, I was a huge fan in 2001-02, but her sound needs to be reinvented.

    ______________________
    the music industry is in a serious downward spiral. who knew 90s music would be recognized as classic masterpiece type efforts (compared to music put out today)

    opps, sorry if this post shows up multiple times. computer's on the brink! ;)



  22. 22

    absolutely fandastic! LOVESSS IT



  23. 23

    Ahhh people stop hating and get a life…this is an amazing combination of talent! Stupid losers hiding behind your computers to talk trash about what you can't do..



  24. 24

    I LOVED WHEN THEY PERFORMED IT AT YANKEE STADIUM! IT WAS ABSOLUTELY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEW YORK…HELLS YEAH!



  25. 25

    When I first heard the song, I thought it was OK, nothing spectacular. Now especially since I am from NY, they overplay this song too damn much and now I hate it. I have the original BP album BP2 Hardknock Life and other Jay Z albums but u yeah this one IMO is just mediocre. Alicia tries to push her voice here but she falls a lil short.



  26. 26

    Hot song, hot video.

    I kept waiting for Lil Mama's dumbass to jump out in the video. lol



  27. 27

    Re: CocoLouboutin

    play the track and let me talk over it. I think I can do the exact same thing he does, as do I think you can and just a about anyone. It doesn't take talent to talk to music. I have a life, it's called a white collar job. Lots of down time in a law office. Maybe if you had a real career, and didn't mop floors, maybe you'd understand



  28. 28

    LOVE IT!!! :D



  29. 29

    omg i love this song



  30. 30

    This video is amazing. I LOVE Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, they are both sooo talented! ♥

    p.s if you hate Jay-z then why would you waste your time watching the video and commenting? :S



  31. 31

    Re: xxxckxxx – AGREEEEEEE!!!



  32. 32

    i love jay z! and ny! amazinggg



  33. 33

    all this time ive been skipping the video and i still hear gay- z singing and alica keys with her weird hairdo



  34. 34

    u know what they say if u don't have any haters then probably don't have any successes y would u guys waste ur time watching and commenting on a genre of music u don't like



  35. 35

    law and order? a little bit like that in the start anyway Alicia is the only good thing in this song



  36. 36

    ….next



  37. 37

    Great tune. I think when Jay-Z sat in with Phish for two shows in Brooklyn back in 2004, it absolutely rubbed off…. That said he is totally moving hip-hop BACK to instrumentals, which is impressive and I think Instrumentals are much needed again in music. Alicia Keys sounds amazing, again here you have two of the 'FEW' real talents in hip hop music culture. But Jay-Z you are not Frank Sinatra…..maybe in a neo modern way. LOVE the harvey keitel video! He is one of smarter rappers….H.O.V.A!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  38. nadan says – reply to this


    38

    So stupid. i can't understand her. she is keep performing this song In VMA, World Series, and even in AMA.
    And her new single failed in chart seriously without any promotions.



  39. 39

    This is a goood song (:



  40. 40

    JAY-Z IS NOT THE NEW SINATRA ITS FUNNY HOW HE THINKS HES THE SHIT WHEN HES JUST SHIT …MONKEY SHIT…HE LOOKS LIKE A GORILLA …OR A MONKEY…A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH



  41. 41

    All the hate. I love it. Truth is the song is hotttttttt!!!!!!!!!! He is a smart guy, this record is in rotation and on Billboard. We got a saying in on my team. "U DO IT" All this hate on this song. Well U DO IT!! U sell all these albums, put out hits, invest, make money, drop ELEVEN ALBUMS. U DO IT!!!!!!!!!!1



  42. 42

    One of my favourite songs in a looong time!!



  43. 43

    Re: kissmyassobama – Jealous much?



  44. 44

    this song is SO old. they've been playing it every time derek jeter comes up to bat this year.



  45. 45

    GARBAGE



  46. 46

    Re: blahblah12 – lol.



  47. 47

    Yankees fan



  48. 48

    Re: rokstarr – lol



  49. 49

    I like the song, but I'm also going to see Jay Z next week.

    Top of the 7th and it's Yankees 6 - Phillies 4.
    Go Yankees!!!



  50. 50

    Can we say "overated". The song is just okay. Nothing special about it.



  51. 51

    JAY-Z IS SOOO OVERRATED



  52. 52

    YANKEES 8 - 4 now kids. The song is very hot. Sorry for you people who hear it too much. Get a job. I can't play my radio all day at work.



  53. 53

    This is amazing.. the photography and art along with the melody is just perfect. I

  54. KBGD says – reply to this


    54

    oh man i agree… although i'm sure Jay Z does his thing, the song would be great without him. Alicia Keys is the star here



  55. 55

    This song is fucking awesome. It makes you love NY.
    I would love to live there but its wayyyy too fucking expensive. and it smells there too.



  56. 56

    LOVE THIS SONG … i wouldn't consider it 'new' so you're a little late on this one Perez, but i still love it!



  57. 57

    Outstanding!!! Jay Z goes from Strength to Strength 5 Stars



  58. 58

    damn these people are hard jayz haters. um i love the song its so catchy. and duh he cant sing. hes not a singer, hes a rapper :) i think hes great. he has nice lyrics and i love how in every song he somehow mentions new york or brooklyn. love him and alicia killed it



  59. 59

    I love my New York! This is the shit. F you haters! All with negative comments are just senseless West Coasters, Mid West, and idiot southerners.



  60. 60

    all you haters you are dumb like shit. Jay and Alicia are making money. keep hating poor asses.



  61. 61

    HHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT



  62. 62

    I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE NEW YORK ………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  63. DavHa says – reply to this


    63

    Love Alicia's hairstyle from old days



  64. 64

    fantastic song.



  65. 65

    New? This song has been around longer than that load in your asshole Perez.



  66. 66

    LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the song, but s it censored? It'd be nice to hear the song as the artists intended. Also, Jay-Z, not sure if you were just lookin for a rhyme or if you actually believe this, but you DIDN'T make the 'Yankee hat more famous then a Yankee did'. What self absorption.



  67. 67

    Cool clip! The group t.A.T.u. also released a new video! Video title - White Robe!



  68. 68

    It's considered "hot" and "great" because people today have small minds and pea brains!



  69. 69

    funny how all these people on here running their mouth saying how their 5 year old could talk over music. Let's see them or you the adult even try to keep up to the beat of the music and rap with the precision that Jay does. Wow, all these people who are so narrow minded that even in this day and age do not even realize that rap is also a genre of music.

    And all the talk of Jay looking like a animal, wow, how disrespectful. Obviously he has enough talent to get past his looks and still make millions while all those insulting him are still just sitting behind a computer screen submitting their comments 3 times in a row.



  70. 70

    Meh. New York used to be something special , full of creativity and individuals and adventure, and now it's just another boring clean city full of rich assholes. Rap and punk-rock began in NYC back when the city was gritty and dangerous and hard, real music came out of real situations , and now good powerful stuff like would never come out of this fucking place because it's just shiny and gentrified.
    Fuck New York.



  71. 71

    where is Lil Mama ? hehehehe Love, love, love this video…MTV performance was sick…I jam this in my car all the time - windows down, screaming the song….love me some Hova !!!



  72. 72

    I will die without EVER knowing what in the world people like about this JayZee guy. It's just…I mean: The man't can't sing, can't dance, what is it that made him the god that he is? I should study his situation before I comment, I suppose. The man is a NOTHING. An UGLY nothing at that. Just unbelievably unattractive, looks not human to me. I am serious.



  73. 73

    lol wow we got some hater i dont know whats more funny and pathetic the fact that he dosnt even kno you lame ass INTERNET GANGSTERS live or the fact he could buy you peices of trash i like the song and im not even from new york some people really need lives ,stop hating because this man so calls "talk over music"and makes over 70 million dollars a fuckin year oh yea FYI he produces most of his songs so chances are he made the beats along with his raps dumb shits



  74. 74

    This is totally forgettable. Alicia is beautiful, why did she hang with this goon?



  75. 75

    i liked ill state of mind better ;)



  76. 76

    He is…without a f***ing doubt…theeeee worst rapper I have ever heard. Listen to his voice and his intonation…Jesus…he SUXXXXX! Stick to producing…wow! He sounds like he has a mouth full of ground beef…



  77. 77

    She's fucking amazing…but he blows! Jesus…dump his ass and get a good rapper…she deserves better…



  78. 78

    I LUV THIS FUCKIN SONG………………………………………………..



  79. 79

    i love it xxxxxxxxx



  80. 80

    JAY Z Bought His Career, Just Like Alicia's Pimp Swizz Beatz the Pimp. Plagarising MotherFuckers. JAY Z Bought his career for 100g. Thats word from the Empire State.



  81. 81

    Hey, I'd just like to adress those who argue " well , he makes 70 million a year, therefore he is amazing"
    Just because something is POPULAR, does not mean it's GOOD.
    Actually , most things that the majority of mainstream society like is bullshit.
    All the musicians who make assloads of money and sell like mad are not making real music. I mean , Taylor Swift is really successful and her music could not be more bland or generic. The masses are just easily entertained. They don't want thier music to make them think , they just want to DANCE. This isn't a personal attack on Jay-Z, who i could not care less about, it's just an observation of current popular music acts as a whole: they're all POPULAR and they all SUCK



  82. 82

    Re: UMWolverine
    "Lots of down time in a law office" REALLY???
    PLEASE let us all know what firm hired your ass so we don't go anywhere near it!!



  83. 83

    finally thought it was going to drop out of the charts before it got a video! i like it!



  84. 84

    yawn.
    last century old people



  85. 85

    haters are just jealous they ain.t on the east coast/gold coast/best coast!



  86. 86

    ALICIA KEYS IS A HOMEWRECKER!! ALL HOMEWRECKERS THAT CANT FIND THEIR OWN MAN HAVE LOW SELF ESTEEM. MAYBE IT'S THE ACNE THAT MAKES HER THAT WAY..IDK



  87. 87

    Not a big Jay Z fan, but love this song.



  88. 88

    I love this song and vid. Alicia Keys made it hot!



  89. 89

    JZ HAS ZERO TALENT! T-A-L-K-I-N-G ON A RECORD IS NOT TALENT!
    ALICIA ON THE OTHER HAND HAS THE TALENT. REMEMBER WE DON'T ALL SING BUT WE ALL TALK. IT'S REALLY PATHETIC TO CONSIDER YOURSELF AN "ARTIST" FOR TALKING!!! ONLY IN HIP HOP CAN ONE CONSISTENTLY PUT OUT TALK ALBUMS AND BE RECOGNIZED. THE PEOPLE ARE USE TO IT NOW AND ACCEPT TALKING AS PART OF RAP ARTISTRY-LAME AT BEST.



  90. 90

    FUCK THE HATERS! This song is amazing!



  91. 91

    Re: Love&Hate – No Honey…Swizz Beatz is the HOMEWRECKER. It was him who left his home…he wrecked it .



  92. 92

    Haha, they should have had Lil Mama pop in at the end there.



  93. 93

    ALICIA IS A RACIST, HOME WRECKING, WHORE.



  94. 94

    I am reading some of these comments and wondering, if you are so FN smart go write a book or something. U know who U R

    Hey Perez crew read the comments and you will see some prick trying to sound sooooooooooooooooooooooooo tight ass. Come to the village and loosen up!!!!!!



  95. 95

    lolz .. This what Jigga doin' to get back to the top? Pimping NY? Oh well, guess it's better than selling out like JLo (tuned!) who talks about the Bronx but lives on Long Island.

    Song's true about good girls graduating to hard life. I wasn't inspired by the lights though. NYers inspired me.