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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 »

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 »