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Alicia Keys precocious had the un-thinkable hap during 1 of her concerts.
The impromptu infinitesimal occurred erstwhile the Grammy-award victor performed her hit, "Empire State of Mind," astatine the Rogers Arena successful Vancouver connected Aug. 29. While walking done the assemblage arsenic she continued to sing, 1 instrumentality decided to drawback the vocalist and buss her connected the cheek—which, arsenic seen successful a clip shared to societal media—led to an understandably stunned reaction.
Now, days later, Alicia is speaking retired astir her archetypal thought process astatine that precise moment. "Trust me, I was similar what the F--K!!!!!!!!," she commented connected Hollywood Unlocked's Instagram page showcasing the video connected Aug. 31. "Don't she cognize what clip it is???"
After the video made its mode to societal media, different fans weighed successful connected the moment. "Immediately no," 1 idiosyncratic wrote. Another added, "Rescue herrr." While a 3rd commented, "Every clip she sings this song, idiosyncratic does thing inappropriate."
It's worthy noting that this isn't the archetypal clip Alicia has had to spell with the travel erstwhile her onstage rendition of "Empire State of Mind" didn't spell exactly arsenic primitively planned.
As a refresher, during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Lil Mama abruptly joined Jay-Z and Alicia onstage arsenic they performed their song, striking a airs toward the extremity of the duo's performance. And to galore fans' surprise, precocious past year, Alicia revealed that she had nary idea what was happening connected that signifier astatine the time.
"Basically, I retrieve perfectly nothing," she told Complex News successful a December 2021 interview. "I deliberation I was truthful focused connected performing. Because erstwhile you perform, it's a lot. You gotta deed it. You gotta nail it. You gotta termination it. It has to beryllium perfect."
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Explaining that she and Jay performed astatine other sides of the signifier earlier coming unneurotic astatine the end, she added, "When I archer you, 100 percent, I was oblivious to the thought that adjacent to him was different person, which, benignant of frightened the s--t retired of maine aboriginal erstwhile I figured it out."
But for Alicia, that infinitesimal with Lil Mama is conscionable considered an aged memory.
"That was then. You know, she's from New York, too," Alicia said connected The Morning Hustle Show in October 2021. "You know, I deliberation she truly felt the vigor of the grounds and she loved it and she couldn't clasp herself back. Look, this is what my music does to people. What tin we say?"
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