Jay-Z, Alicia Keys discuss Lil Mama crashing their performance
Jay-Z and Alicia Keys perform their new song titled "Empire State of Mind" during the MTV Video Music Awards (AP photo by Jason DeCrow)
Everyone was so focused on Kanye West crashing Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech during the MTV Video Music Awards, that everyone seems to overlook that Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ performance was crashed too.
While Jay-Z and Alicia were performing their duet to the song “Empire State of Mind” during the awards finale, rapper Lil Mama appeared out of nowhere, walked on the stage and stood next to them.
Rapper Lil Mama apologizes for crashing Jay-Z and Alicia Keys' performance at the MTV Video Music Awards. Lil Mama is also a judge on "America's Best Dance Crew." (AP photo by Mark J. Terrill)
Radio personality Angie Martinez interviewed Jay-Z this week about the incident. Jay-Z said “Me, personally, I would never do that. I would never have the nerve to do that. It’s just like, someone’s up there performing, we went through rehearsals, we did run throughs and we worked really hard at the performance to put on a show for people and to interrupt that moment for us, you know, I don’t think that was the right thing to do. I actually thought it was the equivalent of what Kanye did to Taylor Swift. And I’m cool with her being excited and all that but you have to understand, people put in work to make that performance happen, that took weeks. I was a little angry to be honest, but what I’ma do, fight Lil Mama?”
Alicia Keys appeared on NBC’s Today Show and discussed the incident. She said “I would rather not speak about it because the performance was so phenomenal it doesn’t even matter about anything else. Jay-Z and I are native New Yorkers. It’s kind of a classic New York song like new Frank Sinatra, Liza Minnelli. I can appreciate her being overwhelmed and inspired but we would have preferred she did it from her seat.”
Lil Mama later released a statement apologizing to the performers. She said
“I did not mean any disrespect towards Jay-Z or Alicia Keys. I admire them and look up to them as role models. ‘Empire State of Mind’ had my emotions running high. In that moment I came up onstage to celebrate my two icons singing about NY.”
It seems to me like Lil Mama just wanted some attention. She didn’t want to let Kanye West have all the attention for crashing the stage.
To watch the clip of Lil Mama crashing the stage during Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ performance, the video clip is posted below. Fast forward the video to the five-minute mark.
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LIL MO WAS FKN ANNOYING WHEN SHE DID THAT, LIKE SHE STILL PEE’S THE BED! I DIDNT SEE THE POINT, THEN SHE SAID SHE LOOKS UP TO THEM> ISNT JAY Z GHETTO TOO? IM REALLY SICK OF ALL OF THEM. THEN HE WAS UPSET ABOUT THE MTV EURO AWARDS CALLIN HIS MUSIC URBAN,BUT HE STILL SAYS NIGGA IN HIS MUSIC, WHAT BEYONCE SEE IN THAT HOOD RAT GONE HOLLYWOOD,I DO NOT KNOW.AND IM GLAD KANYE DID THAT, HE TOLD THE TRUTH!GET OVER IT, MORONS! PEOPLE ARE MAKIN A BIG DEAL OVER NOTHING,ITS NOT LIKE HE PUSHED HER,OR SPAT ON HER,BUT NOTICE IT A BIG DEAL WHEN ITS A WHITE PERSON BUT NOT SO MUCH FOR A BLK PERSON,, MTV HAS ITS RACIST UNDER TONES..SCREW TAYLOR SWIFT! LMAOO GOOD FOR HER!
I JUST READ ANGEL’S POST FROM DEC 17. SOUNDS TO ME LIKE YOU ARE A LITTLE GHETTO YOURSELF. NO ONE DESERVES TO BE DISRESPECTED, BLACK WHITE OR WHATEVER. WHAT LIL MAMA AND KANYE DID WAS DISRESPECTFUL AND BAD TASTE, AND IF YOU DON’T GET THAT, THEN I THINK YOU PROVED MY FIRST POINT, YOU ARE GHETTO.
That ugly little gremlin lil mama really does think she’s some hot shit, Where the fuck does she get off thinking she can share a stage with Jay-Z?!?!? That stupid little rat needs a reality check & for this idiot ANGEL, If you dont see the unproffesionalism & flat out ghetto gesture in what kanye & lil mama did then you are a complete and utter jack ass & like jesssaid, You are ghetto ur damn self, Now get back to burger king you bottom feeder, Someone needs to man the drive thru.. Run along!
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Me thinks she just wanted to get her little ugly face in at the VMA awards since obviously no one cared to have her entertain. Lil Mama looked like a little alien from outerspace. It was like where did this little ghetto rat come from, she just appeared out of nowhere. Low class what she did. Kanye was stoned off Hennessey. At least he had an excuse for his behavior. She looked stupid anyway as Jayz dissed her and brushed her off, turned his back on her like she was a pesty fly. Sorry, didn’t mean to be so insulting! Shame on me!