Alicia Keys is celebrating her track with JAY-Z, “Empire State of Thoughts,” hitting one billion streams by teasing a brand new monitor with Hova.
The “If I Ain’t Acquired You” singer took to Instagram on Saturday (June 15) and shared a black and white clip of her and JAY-Z standing in entrance of vibrant lights earlier than epic orchestral music crescendoes.
Keys captioned her put up: “1 Dream. 1 Track. 1 Billion streams [three prayer hand emojis]. Thanks! We love you. What’s subsequent….[eyes emoji, shushing emoji].”
She later took to X (previously Twitter), the place she shared a photograph of two efficiency microphones — one with the preliminary “J,” the opposite labeled “AK.”
Whereas she left the photograph uncaptioned, she tagged CBS and Roc Nation, indicating {that a} shock televised particular could also be within the works.
Take a look at each posts beneath.
— Alicia Keys (@aliciakeys) June 16, 2024
Regardless of the track’s success, it didn’t change everybody’s life for the higher.
Again in March, Lil Mama opened up about her notorious crashing of the duo’s VMAs efficiency again in 2009. She made it clear that the fallout afterwards left her “harm.”
That’s the confession she made throughout an interview on The Jay Hill Community, whereby she additionally revealed that the following backlash took a severe toll on her psychological well being.
“Yeah, to start with, I used to be harm,” she started. “Tyrese referred to as my cellphone as quickly as I received residence. He was like, ‘Bro, you didn’t inform me you was performing!’ Initially, my coronary heart is racing. I’m already mad embarrassed.
“I needed to cope with Ed Lover on the radio within the morning, Wendy Williams, Angie Martinez, who talked to JAY, and he was similar to, ‘Yeah, . I didn’t prefer it.’ He was so indignant, and I used to be simply attempting my finest to do all the things I may do. After some time, I used to be like, ‘Forgive your self, bro. Transfer ahead.’”
She continued: “Bro, I used to be harm. I used to be depressed. I used to be like, ‘Yo, what’s occurring?’ And then you definitely received all people telling you, ‘You’re doing dangerous.’ Folks pointing at you, like, ‘What did you do?’”
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Again in 2009, Alicia Keys teamed up with JAY-Z to carry out their hit track “Empire State of Thoughts” on the MTV VMAs.
Lil Mama was, apparently, so moved by the efficiency that she hopped onstage to function the unofficial hypeman — whilst Hov’s spouse, Beyoncé, unsuccessfully tried to cease her from changing into a Twitter trending matter by repeatedly yanking her arm.
Regardless of Lil Mama changing into the punchline of many jokes afterward, Keys advised The Morning Hustle in October 2021 that she wasn’t even conscious of the rapper’s presence.
“Pay attention, to today, I really by no means knew she was even on the stage — that’s the craziest a part of the entire thing for me,” she stated. “I used to be on that stage, [JAY-Z] was within the center, she was on the opposite aspect of Jay, and I by no means noticed her.”
