The first verse of Alicia Keys’ “Plentiful” is held down by Pusha T, and honestly speaking it’s not abundantly clear what the thesis sentiment of his passage is. But once Alicia comes into the mix...
“A Beautiful Noise” was designed for the specific purpose of encouraging Americans to cast their vote in the 2020 US Presidential Elections. But beyond that, it was also inspired by and meant to celebrate the women’s...
Being that Alicia Keys was always an intellectual artist highly in tune with the feminist aspect of African-American history, chances are the title of this song (“Caged Bird”) was inspired by the highly-renowned 1969 autobiography of...
Love songs, as far as the music industry goes, are such that most of them are based on metaphors created by innumerable respective songwriters. But even then many, if not the majority, of such lyrics...
Succinctly put, “Empire State of Mind” is recognized as a modern-day anthem for New York City. Both Jay-Z (Brooklyn) and Alicia Keys (Harlem) are New York City natives, and they teamed up on this...
The title of this song alludes to a dream Drake kept having in which he was beholding fireworks in a field which holds historical significance to his family. Ultimately he came to ‘realize what [the dream] means’,...
This track isn’t actually about R&B songstress Alicia Keys but is primarily centered on a romantic relationship the vocalist is in. In the lyrics, Lucki exclaims that he “turned a city girl into Alicia Keys”....
NYC’s Alicia Keys is the artist who defined turn-of-the-century R&B music. She was somewhat of a virtuoso, exhibiting exceptional musical abilities from childhood. She was even actually signed by the ever-popular Columbia Records at the tender of...
Alicia Keys explained on her official Instagram account that “Perfect Way to Die” is a song about the innocent lives that have been lost in America in the past years because of injustice brought...
As the title suggests, Alicia Keys is dedicating this song to “underdogs”. An underdog would basically be someone who is at a disadvantage in a given situation. The types of people Alicia seems to be specifically expressing...