Lil Mama + Empire State of Mind Freestyle
She just pops up everywhere, doesn't she?
I’m sorry but… this is absolutely terrible. In response to her unexpected b-girl pose on stage after Jay-Z and Alicia Keys rocked the MTV VMAs last week, Lil Mama released this freestyle video to the internet world in order to explain her side of the story. Considered by many as a poor publicity stunt, it can only be confirmed by the fact that she drops a half-asses freestyle over ‘Empire State of Mind,’ which Jay & Alicia performed at the VMAs. I side with Alicia on this one, who had the following comment about the ordeal:
“I would rather not speak about [it] because the performance was so phenomenal it doesn’t even matter about anything else,” Keys explained in an interview last week. “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…”
You can watch her freestyle response below. It’s so fantastic that I have totally forgotten about the entire VMA incident and now want to get Lil Mama’s portrait tattooed on my forehead. Really though, don’t say that I didn’t warn you about the wackness that follows.
And also, just because I don’t want my poplemons to end on a bad note, check out the full VMA performance by Jay-Z and Alicia Keys (and also one of my favorite tracks from Blueprint 3):
