ALICIA’S new album The Element Of Freedom drops December 13th and rumor has it the album hold-up was due to the success of Hov’s current single, ‘Empire State Of Mind’ which has now spawned a sequel which will be featured on Freedom.

And Ms. Keys covers the current issue of Billboard magazine where she talks about among other things, why you shouldn’t expect her to follow the annoying current trend where every artist wants to start their own label.

“I don’t really have a desire to do my own label, to be honest with you. It’s like a pain in the ass [laughs], because you’ve got to deal with so much irrelevant stuff. To do like me times six or seven other people, I don’t know. I might totally lose it. I have more of a desire to bring talented people to the forefront and help support them. That’s why I see myself doing more of the writer/producer thing. But not necessarily running a label because labels are dying. It’s a whole different world.”