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Alicia Keys MTV VMAs 2009Alicia Keys appeared on the “Today Show” this morning and though she was there to promote her new album and single, the hosts couldn’t pass up the opportunity to ask her about Lil’ Mama, and the incident that occurred just days ago at MTV’s Video Music Awards. Keys did her best to sidestep the question in the beginning – like when they hosts profess their love for the pint-size rapper, Keys simply says, “That’s nice” – but, she later admitted that she would’ve preferred Lil’ Mama show her appreciation for the “Empire State of Mind” performance in other ways.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2daTopnonStop/ 2daTopnonStop

    A. Keys is so classy~ glad she didn’t get baited in2 talking crap~

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DMY19151/ DMY19151

    ALL OF THAT S**T THAT LIL MAMA BE SAYING TO THEM GROUPS ON THAT DANCE SHOW….THAT WAS OUT OF POCKET WHAT SHE DID…NOT PROFESSIONAL AT ALL…IT HAPPENED THOUGH…DONE…OVER AND PASSED IT!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/187mafia_boi/ 187mafia_boi

    lol classy? kill ya self 4 dat one.. u call mtv vmas classy? wtf
    u hella retarded.. vma’s not the grammys basically.. “ITs Not That Serious”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Poetic_Assasin/ Poetic_Assasin

    speaking of having claass…the question they should have asked Alicia is why she was fuucking swizz beats when he and Moshonda were still a couple, and why she feels it is okay to publicly declaire that she and he are an item now, when the divorce papers haven’t been officially signed.
    I will be the first to admit that i don’t really care for alicia’s music. I feel that she is overrated and most of her junk sounds so similar that if you own one album of hers you have heard her whole body of work. I dont know why this woman can fart in the recording booth and win a grammy for it while so many other talented singers go ignored, but it is what it is. To me, she screms and sings through her nasal passage, but she does give back to the community and she does do charity work for HIV/AIDS awarebess, and for girls in AFrica, so i respect her for that.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MotiV8Ted1/ MotiV8Ted1

    While she telling lil mamma that she should have stayed in her seat, she should stay in her seat and let swizz work out his marital problems…talking about class, she got all that money and chasing community dickkkkkk

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BreakitDown69/ BreakitDown69

    Poetic assassin, you’re a ass! You make Kanye look cool, and that’s bad! Mashonda and Swizz are a wrap. If Swizz still wanted Mashonda, then they still would be working it out. Instead, they’re splitting up. As for her being overrated, the hits and mutli-platinum albums keep coming. It also helps, that she’s a wonderful writer and producer in her own right. You haven’t heard Whitney’s Million Dollar Bill, right? Alicia did that. Plus, she has a mainstream and a R&B fanbase. I don’t know about you, but a brother’s gonna cop that CD. Don’t hate, since your head nods to every hit she comes out with. As for those so-called artists you talk about? Where they’re at?They’re still looking for another label to take a chance of them. The difference between Alicia and them, is that homegirl has her own style and creatvity. She leads by example, and not follow the crowd. You go Alicia. When the haters hate on you that hard, then you doing something right!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sunshyne_defined/ Sunshyne_defined

    So, f**ken, what? Lil mama’s a kid who made a mistake, get over it. And, I’m sure after Mashonda’s cl@ssy handling of meeting not only her ex, but his h0e on the side again, Swizz probably has/will realize he let go of a good person for someone willing to f*ck someone else’s husband. Now, i’m hoping Mashonda’s taking her beauty/intelligence, and all that she has to offer, and finding a more worthy person than him. Let him and his h0e have it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shamel_/ Shamel_

    I think Miss Keys handled this interview perfectly. We all know how words can be blown waaay OUT OF PROPORTION on and off the record! I can appreciate her work and admire/respect her as an artist. Her personal life is just that…her “PERSONAL” life. None of us are perfect and nor are we privy to the FACTS of her personal life. 90% of this b.s. be “hearsay”! As for her statement about LIl’ Mama…it was “on point”. Although most of the audience was feelin’ the song, you DON’T jump on stage during someone’s performance (LOL)! However, it is what it is!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Gods_chosenman/ Gods_chosenman

    Lil momma needs a better manager…someone who could tell her all the ways not to destroy her career in 60 seconds or less…especially when you arent even looked at by most of Hip- Hop as little more than a gimmick rapper the last thing you want to do is solidify that belief in concrete. I’ve heard Lil Momma…shes nice, she can rap but this definetly isnt the way to advance her career, it was embarrassing.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/soveu34/ soveu34

    HHHHHHHHHHHmmm she didnt crash it she was invited and she behaved like any cla ssy sista should she knows a loser when she sees one his lost not hers. As for AK she could have atleast waited until the man divorce papers were signed two losers dam marriage dont mean nothing to some people but some fresh azz.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Babydoll_412/ Babydoll_412

    IM SO TIRED OF THESE STUCK UP ASS F**KIN STARS SHE JUS SHOWED LOVE FOR HER CITY AND SHE APOLOGIZED SHES A F**KIN S**T B***H

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/RaQuelK2009/ RaQuelK2009

    I so agree. I mean remember when Alicia first hit the sence and you couldn’t tell if she was gay or not?? Yall remember that and how she was so humble. Now look at the tramp. I mean being in the semi-big leagues has tornished her. But all I have to say is this. God gives and he surely can take away.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/xXHunny-BunnyXx/ xXHunny-BunnyXx

    Alicia, I concur… personally I would have preferred if the b*tch stayed home. LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KINESHIA/ KINESHIA

    IT WAS NOT THAT DAMN SERIOUS WHAT LIL MAMA DID PLEAAAAAAAAZZZ GET OVER IT. THAT WHITE AUDIENCE WAS NOT FEELIN THAT DAMN SONG….LIL MAMA HOWEVA FROM THERE ALWAYS REP IT YEA SEEMS LIKE SHE WOULD BE MOTIVATED 2 GET ON STAGE WHO THE F**K JAY AND ALICIA KEYS SPOSE 2 BE???

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/cocohoneydoo/ cocohoneydoo

    Lil Mama ain’t have a hit in several years. She needs to just sit her ass behind the table on Americas Next Best Dance Crew and try to judge. Jay-Z and Alicia Keys didn’t need any help from a One hit wonder. Stop trying to pull a Kanye West and sit your ass down.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/toodelicious4u/ toodelicious4u

    Who is Lil Mama again?!!! LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/niecybelle699/ niecybelle699

    alicia keys aint the only one that wanted lil mama to sit down. why the hell do people got to do stupidass stuff??

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/playaa_2000/ playaa_2000

    To KINESHIA: That crowd was feeling the song! Look at everyone up on their feet waving their hands and singing along. I’m from the south and I liked it. The song was good for the crowd they were performing for ya know. Lil Mama needs to get some hits and stop trying to gain publicity off someone elses s**t! That was classless. Some people on here are trying to give her a pass. I bet she wouldn’t want someone crashing on her performance. That is if any major event even would ask her to perform. That was their time to shine!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sylkiifeather/ sylkiifeather

    LIKE I SAID FROM THE BEGINNING…NO NEED TO CALL LIL MAMA NAMES WHEN SHE IS JUST SOME LIL GIRL AND MADE A MISTAKE…WASNT LIKE SHE WAS TRYING TO BE CRUEL. AND AS FAR AS ALICIA BEING SOME SL*T OR WHATEVA BECAUSE SHE IS WITH SWIZZ….SO WHAT. NONE OF US KNOW WHAT REALLY WENT DOWN WITH THAT SITUATION. IF HE AND HIS WIFE WERE SEPARATED, THEN WHATS THE BIG DEAL?? DIVORCES USUALLY TAKE A WHILE, SO WHAT WAS HE SUPPOSED TO DO?? JUST SIT AND NOT LIVE HIS LIFE…NOT MOVE ON JUST BECAUSE HE IS STILL LEGALLY MARRIED? LIFE GOES ON. HE SHOULDNT JUST TOSS SOMEBODY AWAY THAT HE LIKES WHEN HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS WIFE IS OVER AND HE IS GETTING A DIVORCE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gotuhot4it/ gotuhot4it

    people on here really need to check themsleves, i think some of ya’ll are taking it to far, Lil MAMA is a great writer and artist. yeah she may not be doing what you want her to do but she is doing what makes her happy. ya’ll need to stop stressing over her getting on stage yeah she could have stayed in her seat, however why all the name calling.
    with Swizz and her much love to you in ya’ll relationship it don’t matter what nobody has to say as long as you two in the realtionship are happy at the end of the day. that’s my thinking of all this bull and love.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/YOURNAWTEEGIRL/ YOURNAWTEEGIRL

    WOW ALICIA LOOKED BEAUTIFUL/CLASSY IN THAT INTERVIEW

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GyrlSpeedRT/ GyrlSpeedRT

    Lol, she looked like she didn’t belong anyways. Someone tell her to get a bang…looking like a damn alien!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/diva61811/ diva61811

    I can’t believe some of the comments about this story. We have people calling these women b***hes and even s**ts. What have they done to even deserve to be called those type of names? First of all I don’t even know either one of those women so I couldn’t even begin to try to assassinate their characters in the way that many are doing. I think Alicia Keys answered the question well during the interview and Lil Mama did not belong on the stage during the performance. Lil Mama apologized so let us all move on to something worth while to talk about. Too be honest that was one of the highlights of the whole VMAs. Does it make it right no it doesn’t. Now as far as Alicia and Swizz Beatz what does that have to do with this article? Nothing last time I checked and again that is her business and I don’t know how many people wind up in similar situations that she and Swizz Beatz have winded up in so why are people even tripping off of their relationship? Maybe because she is in the spotlight and they have nothing else to talk about in their own boring lives, but calling these women b***hes and s**ts is definitely not called for and lacking class.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sexy_liyah/ sexy_liyah

    i feel like everyone is making a big deal out of nothing ,wow she got on stage so what it is not like she took his mic and dissed him ,i think ya’ll mother fu**ers need to grow up cause it is not a big deal , ya’ll need to talk about what he said to her cause that was fu**ed up

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Game4iT/ Game4iT

    That is one beautiful woman…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trying2getthere/ trying2getthere

    Alicia keys is far from a hoe she talented and beautiful its only natural that people would hate and yea lil mama shoul have stayed seated as for her and swizz i wish them the best you cant choose who you fall in love with

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MZ_KNIGHTOWL/ MZ_KNIGHTOWL

    LOL I DIDNT EVEN KNOW IT WAS LIL MAMA WHEN SHE GOT ON STAGE,,,I JUST THOUGHT,,,GREAT WHO THE HELL IS THIS LAME ASS NOW,,,

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Ladyd121/ Ladyd121

    I don’t care anyway I Loathe jay z and alicia is gay I don’t care what anyone says she doesn’t look anymore feminine just because her hair is styled different now.Robin Thicke’s wife is what I would call beautiful NOT alicia keys.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/gapeaches26/ gapeaches26

    Maybe Swizz Beats wife would’ve preffered Alicia Keys stay out of her marriage. Also, you can help who you fall in love with. That serves as no excuse for someone being a homewrecker but like the saying goes “what goes around comes around”.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/momono3/ momono3

    I heard swizz got B.O., maybe now that he’s back on the dating scene, he, like most married men who no longer think it is important to hop in the shower because they have a wife, is bathing again.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Lady_Chai/ Lady_Chai

    The Today’s Show interviewers were sneaky – Alicia told them that she had no comments. They came right back to the VMA subject after they got her to loosen up a bit. I’m glad that she was ready for them and didn’t quite lower her guard all the way; she gave a professional answer.
    I’ll tell ya – once you start talking to the media they can do you in or twist your words.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ohcoacobunny/ ohcoacobunny

    Alicia Keys, woo. She is so classy and did a fabulous job with the interview. She handled the Little Mama questions without insult. Wonderful. All in a days work and came out looking good.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/xsquare/ xsquare

    Maybe im just old, but who is this lil mama and WHAT has she ever done relevant??

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/NOWHITEIN/ NOWHITEIN

    WHO IS LIL MAMA? SHE IS A BUBBLE GUM POP RAPPER THAT HAS HER SHARE OF HITS. HITS LIKE LIP GLOSS AND SHORTY GET LOOSE FEATURING RIHANNA’S EX, CHRIS BROWN. SHE IS YOUNG. SHE WAS JUST TRYING TO SHOW RESPECT IN HER OWN WAY. IT AINT LIKE SHE PULLED A KANYE WEST! LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/1_BustaCap/ 1_BustaCap

    Ms. keyes is truly the definition of an accomplished woman, not to mention prime beef smothered in gravy with biscuits. But I’m not going to wait around for you forever Alicia. Lol. “A Deadly Recompense” available online now at publishamerica.com , barnesandnoble.com and all other online bookstores. The book is off the heeezy fisheeeezy.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/GhettoIndia02/ GhettoIndia02

    That was the hottest performance of the night… if i were Jay Z i woulda pushed her ass off the stage as if it was an accident.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Hokage-Sama69/ Hokage-Sama69

    she’s so purtiful and classy

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/nikki497/ nikki497

    I agree with what Alicia said, while she didn’t say anything mean about the thing with Lil Mama jumping on stage like a clown and getting in the way of a terrific performance, she did keep it real for saying that she should of just stayed in her seat and caught her “moment”. Big ups to Ms. Keys for handling the question with style and grace like the lady she is!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ms_difyah_nasty/ ms_difyah_nasty

    I LOVE YOUR MUSIC ALICIA BUT I BET SWIZZ BEATZ WIFE PROB, WOULD HAVE PREFERRED IF YOU WOULD HAVE WAITED INTILE THERE DEVORCE BEFORE YOU STARTED DATING HER HUSBAND I MEAN IAM JUST SAYING VERY VERY TACKEY SHE IS WAY TO PRETTY AND TALENTED TO BE CAUGHT UP IN THAT MESS. DIDNT ANYBODY LEARN FROM BRITNEY LEAVE THAT DOG WITH HIS WIFE BECAUSE YOU CANT CHANGE A MAN IF HE DID IT TO HER HE WILL DO IT TO YOU…..,

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blkgrover/ blkgrover

    Lil Mama said what can I do to get some attention I got it jump on stage on Jay and Ms Keys performance might help her sell some records now. Me I wouldn’t done it because I would have been like George Brett and s**t on myself I ate at del taco last night and got the runs it would have been a load of s**t on the floor.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/1_AND_ONLY_YONNIE/ 1_AND_ONLY_YONNIE

    I love the way she handled the interview. She could’ve gotten rude but the is not the way she handles things. About her and Swizz, noone knows how it happened, just like noone went on in Swizz and Mashonda marriage. We wouldn’t know if they were having problems way before he started seeing Alicia. We only see what is in the Media, other things are let private. The reason the Media is talking about Swizz and Alicia like this is because, Alicia likes to keep a low profile and doesn’t go to all the places that the paparazzi are hanging at. So, now they dug up something and running with it. All I have to say this: Ms. Keys you are wonderful at what you do and your are a great Humanitarian. Continue doing your thing and if he makes you happy then do you. Forget what everyone else says.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pflower/ pflower

    Quite frankly, I didn’t see what the fuss was about. Although I am not a Lil Mama fan, what was her purpose or the major damage done? She was on stage less than a minute and really made herself look badly because neither of them acknowledged her. And at this stage of her career it was just a bad move, especially when she couldn’t contribute. As for the Swizz Beatz situation, I don’t understand why people don’t leave married men alone. If their marriage is in the process of ending, then let it end.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jasmine422/ Jasmine422

    she shudve stayd her lil azz n her lil seat. errbdy kno she rep ny, but dam kan jay n ms. keys hve they moment. dam!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MsMissyK/ MsMissyK

    LOL @ Jasmine422 & GhettoIndia02.
    Jay-Z should correct Lil’ Ma that it’s not cool to improv someone else’s show and then forgive her young self. She hasn’t been in the business very long and surely she will learn from this embarrassing mistake. But in agreement with GhettoIndia02, I might have given her a little trip with my foot; Oops.

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