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Jay Z & Alicia Keys rocked ‘Empire State Of Mind’ at American Music Awards. New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez came on to introduce Jay-Z and Alicia Keys.
Alicia started it off by singing “New York,New York” by Frank Sinatra (video below), while Jay-Z stood by the piano.

Alicia’s voice is was so great in this song. After that, the beat came on for “Empire State of Mind.” Jay-Z bobbed around the stage,sporting a white Tuxedo top,while he spat those dope “Empire State of Mind” lyrics.

The crowd was lovin it. Read the rest of this entry »

Jay-Z & Alicia Keys World Series performance clip released online earlier today. They performed his hit song “Empire State Of Mind,” which is now one of my favorite tracks.

They performed it in front of a packed crowd at Yankee Stadium for game 2 of the baseball World Series between the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies last night. They performed the “clean” version of the song for the crowd.

Jay-Z was awesome, as he spit out the great lyrics to the song. Then, Alicia chimed in for the chorus. I love her voice. I saw him perform this song with another girl one time, when Alicia wasn’t available,and I gotta say,it just doesn’t compare. Alicia Keys is just badass. Read the rest of this entry »

Rapstar Jay-Z is set to perform “Empire State Of Mind” at the 2009 “American Music Awards.” He’ll be performing it live with Alicia Keys,again. So it’ll be an encore performance of the 2009 “MTV Video Music Awards” minus Lil Mama’s interruption. But who knows,she might show up to do it again.

Jay-Z is nominated for “Favorite Male Artist” and “Favorite Album.” Jay -Z is reportedly canceling his Austin,Texas appearance to do the performance at the 2009 “American Music Awards.”

The show’s producer, Larry Klein said he was thrilled that Jay-Z and Alicia Keys are going to perform at the awards. He stated, “We are thrilled to have Jay-Z and Alicia Keys on stage together for the 2009 American Music Awards. Read the rest of this entry »

Jay-Z arrived late to the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. He pulled up in a limousine at Radio City Music Hall about 2 hours after the show started. He closed out the show performing an ode to New York with a song entitled, “Empire State of Mind” (video below) from his latest album entitled, “The Blueprint 3.” He performed it with R&B star, Alicia Keys. Images of the Bronx Bombers stadium flashed behind Jay-Z as he rapped.

Jay-Z rapped the lyrics, “Yeah, I’m up at Brooklyn, now I’m down in Tribeca.Right next to De Niro, but I’ll be ‘hood forever/ I’m the new Sinatra and since I made it here/ I can make it anywhere, yeah, they love me everywhere.” Read the rest of this entry »