Video: Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind (Live on The Colbert Report)

Alicia Keys was on The Colbert Report Tuesday December 15th to promote her new album The Element Of Freedom , which features collaborations with Beyonce and Drake. Plus, part two of her and Jay-Z's hit song "Empire State Of Mind." She sat down for an interview and performed "Empire State Of Mind (Part II) Broken Down" with some help from Stephen Colbert himself! Posted in Beats, Chuckle, Clip, Yankee Panky Tagged: alicia, colbert, download, empire, freedom, keys, leak, lyrics, Mind, new, of, rap, rapper, single, state, stephen, the element, track, york

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Alicia Keys- Empire State Of Mind 2 Remix feat. Raekwon, CNN, Styles. P Prod by Dj Green Lantern Or With Stephen Colbert?

Because Steven Colbert is the much better rapper, as evidenced by his verse yesterday during Alicia Keys' performance of "Empire State of Mind." Basically, he comes in about halfway through the song to fill in for the esteemed rapper, and spits some fire about his upper-class upbringing in the suburbs. And boy, did he spit that fire. He spit it all over the floor, and over the background vocalists, and over the drummer. He's like a dragon, bred in Connecticut, guarding the gates of rap. Shazam! While You're Here: [...]

Last night, Alicia Keys appeared on The Colbert Report to promote her new album, The Element of Freedom , with a stripped-down piano version of her smash collaboration with Jay-Z, "Empire State of Mind." About halfway through the song, Stephen Colbert bounded on stage to much applause, clad in a black sweatshirt and hood, and proceeded to diss NYC by rapping about the the advantages of suburban life: "Shopping mall is close, my community is gated/All my shorties are private school-educated." Colbert, why you gotta be such a Debbie Downer? Go back to [...]

Footage of Stephen Colbert & Alicia Keys' performance on the December 15 edition of the Colbert Report.