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As a native New Yorker, a 19-year-old Lil Mama felt that infectious energy and crashed Alicia Keys and Hov's 2009 MTV VMAs performance at Radio City Music Hall.

Alicia Keys Forgives Lil Mama For Crashing Her & JAY-Z's 2009 MTV VMAs Performance Published on:Oct 21, 2021, 2:29 PM by 1 New York, N.Y. There was a time in the Big Apple when you couldnt walk around without hearing JAY-Zand Alicia Keys Empire State of Mind. As a native New Yorker, a 19-year-old Lil Mama felt the ubiquitous anthems infectious energy and crashed Alicia Keys and Hovs 2009 MTV VMAs performance at Radio City Music Hall. While serving as guest host for Morning Hustle on Wednesday (October 20), Keys revealed shes definitely forgiven Lil Mama for joining their performance and admitted she didnt even realize the Lip Gloss rapper was on stage until after the show. Listen, to this day, I truly never knew she was even on the stage thats the craziest part of the whole thing for me, she said. I was on that stage, was in the middle, she was on the other side of Jay, and I never saw her. Keys understood where Lil Mama was coming from as a fellow New Yorker and joked that her music tends to have that effect on listeners. That was wild to me, Keys admitted. Shes from New York, too. I think she really felt the energy of the record and she loved it and she couldnt hold herself back. Look, this is what my music does to people. What can we say? Read more