Alicia Keys shares footage of a recording session with J. Cole.
Alicia Keys is currently working on her new album, as now she shared new footage of her recording in the studio with J. Cole. The footage is released through her new Youtube docuseries, “Noted: Alicia Keys The Untold Stories.” The session also featured Mike Will Made-It and some other producers.
“So what is it, is it an album playing, or just a song, or is this just like, ‘I don’t know what it is.’,” asks J. Cole. “No, I know exactly what it is,” says Alicia Keys. “All right. Cool,” responds Cole.
Alicia continues, “So I always wanted to write this record and I really wanted to create a world. And I love introducing this world that has all the things that make up what I care about. Like New York, samples, real music sh*t. And then I want people to come into the world and lose their mind.”
“From your perspective, when you’re now making music and thinking about releasing music, what fulfills you personally?” asks Cole. “Because we know the making of it is always going to fulfill. You have absolutely experienced, time and time and time over that feeling, like, oh man, I just the world up with someth… you know what I mean? Now if a song blows up, it’s like, where’s it blowing up at? like Tiktok… I ain’t on there. Like the fulfillment of a hit record ain’t even the same for me no more personally, so I can’t even imagine you. Now when you’re releasing your songs, are you looking at as measurement of fulfillment?”
“I think what I want, what I always wanted is to be timeless and I always want to make things that are timeless. So, to me, that transcends stats. It creates a bar that I myself have created. But of course, everybody wants their music to be as successful as possible. But to me success is, like, I wanna awe people,” she says.
Alica Keys recently teamed up with Swae Lee for a new collaboration called “LALA (Unlocked)” which was produced by Mike Will Made-It.
Cole has admired Alicia since he was a teenager, but the two have never worked together. He had a “super-duper crush” on the “Fallin'” singer when he was 14. “There was a few of these in my life. Mariah Carey was one when I was real young. Alicia Keys when I was a little older. I felt like I had a chance,” he told The Fat Joe in a 2013 interview.
Watch the documentary below.
