Jay-Z and Alicia Keys film new video near Ground Zero
Ξ October 2nd, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Uncategorized |
Rapper Jay-Z and singer Alicia Keys have filmed their new video near Ground Zero.
The pair’s new single, Empire State of Mind, has recently been shot in Tribeca and around the site where the World Trade Centre used to stand.
Keys, 28, told MTV News: “Working together on Empire State of Mind was incredible. I’ve admired Jay-Z for a long time. Reasonable Doubt is my all-time favourite album. I always figured that we would do some type of collaboration, and finally, it came together with this.
“He reached out to me and said, ‘I have this big New York record. I feel it’s right for us to do it together. It has this big Frank Sinatra, take-it-there feeling. I feel like you could really do something with it.’”
The singer added: “I went by [the studio], took a listen to it. I really felt the energy of New York all through it. It felt classic, it felt so good; the piano obviously was in there. I said, ‘I love it, so let’s do it’. I think we both are really happy with how it came out.”