Featuring an all black and white image of New York City, interlaced with colorful shots of Alicia Keys and rapper Jay-Z at the Times Square, the singer considers her newest video, “Empire State of Mind”, a wonderful masterpiece.

Talking with MTV, Alicia Keys says: “the way it’s put together, it is so New York. You totally get it and understand it. It’s artistic. It’s hard. It’s beautiful. It’s like everything. And definitely getting to be in the middle of Times Square on my piano [with] Jay, representing our home city is a triumph. It was unbelievable.You have to have the skyline — it’s not New York without the skyline. You have to have the Empire State Building — it’s not New York without the Empire State Building. You have to also have variety. That’s what New York is about. There’s diversity here and so you see that. It’s really beautiful.”"

The video was, of course, shot on location at one of the busiest city in the world: