tuneage: #tbt: Empire State of Mind (Part II) by Alicia Keys Back in 2009 Jay-Z brought Alicia Keys on to collaborate with him on the first version of “Empire State of Mind,” but some time after, Keys decided to record her solo version. She said she wanted to give her own take of how she sees New York: “I wanted to do it for my style - more broken... - http://flipside.scribkin.com/post...