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December 16th, 2009 at 3:34 am

Alicia Keys Colbert Report Video 12-15-09: Stephen Colbert Alicia Keys, Empire State Of Mind 2

Here is the Alicia Keys The Colbert Report video of her Dec. 15, 2009 appearance, featuring a performance of Empire State of Mind 2 with Stephen Colbert, in support of her newly released album The Element of Freedom.

During the interview she discussed her early beginnings in music; classical piano by age seven, and an appearance on the Cosby Show when she was five years old. She also discussed Empire State of Mind, the No. 1 hit single with Jay-Z, saying of the song that it expresses “the feeling that anything is possible.”

Stephen Colbert noted that the song did not have a shout-out to the suburbs, a situation he later contributed by rapping some verses for the bridge and tunnel crowd during her Alicia Keys’ performance of the song with such lyrics as: “Shoppin’ mall is close/ my community is gated / My shorties are all private school educated … M&M Store, Disney Store, I’m in heaven / I own this town from 41st to 47th…”

Here are the Empire State of Mind lyrics performed by Stephen Colbert in their entirety. The video is below.