hate the cover, the 2nd pic is cute.. not a big alica fan as far as looks.. but liked how she switched it up..

She looks beautiful…where’s she been hiding??

beautiful and talented…well represented for ‘Black Girls Rule!….

Alicia looks good. Fierce!

I LOVE A.KEYS… SHE’S A NATURAL BEAUTY AND TALENT..

She’s really pretty. I never knew she was half black/half white till I saw one of her specials recently, and noticed her mama was white (or italian…not sure). Mixed people have the best features.

wifey!!!!

now i wouldn’t mind seeing more of alicia! she is gorgeous and talented- and she never overdoes it! go a-keys!

DAYUM LI LI LOOKING LIKE “COME AND GET IT IN THAT SECOND PIC… I HOPE HER ALLEGED BOYFRIEND KERRY BROTHERS (I KNOW SHE’S REALLY GAY) MAKE HER CUM, DAYUM!LOL

alicia reminds of a dude i knew in high school. seriously tho.

I’m diggin’ the different gear in the second pic. That’s what you call bringin’ it.

#6….Mixed people have the best features?! Give me a fucking break.

Anyways, Alicia looks cute in the pics….with her beautiful piggish nose and all.

^^^Yeah! I’m with you… #6, You’re a moron.

Anyway, I like this look on her. The hair is cool.

She looks like a whore in the second pic. But a beautiful whore nonetheless.

I’m sure CAFF will have the same type of shit Lady A just said “mixed people have the best features”. Last time I checked, Gabrielle Union wasn’t mixed, Sanaa Lathan wasn’t either. Both ladies are gorgeous. It has nothing to do with race or mixing. Whatever.

#12 - NYC, preach.

Alicia is beautiful.

she doesn’t look like a whore.

Alicia Keys is SO beautiful inside and Out…

This is what I’m talking about…

I love when Concreteloop does articles/postings on diverse subjects & people like Alicia Keys & Heather Headley..

Excellant Posting Angel.La.
Thank-You for this !!

I love Alicia….she does her thing still flyin’ under the radar.

Black girls rule? No, mulatto girls rule.

i am disappointed with these pics. crotch shots…no alicia.

^ see what I was saying y’all?

“Black girls rule” with Alicia Keys on the cover. LOL, WTF? Thats why we have dumb asses on here thinking “mixed people have the best features”.

WTF

We don’t believe you, you need more people. -=)

Alicia and Halle Berry are who they chose to be. They only claim black, so they’re BLACK in my eyes.

CAFF = MYSHELL = LADY A

Alicia looks good.

HA HA, ya’ll really take caff seriously!
Well, I’m mixed, so yeah, mixed people DO have the best features, and mulattos DO rule!!!!!!! HAHA LMAO

This thread wont end well, too many ignorant people here, NYC aka #12 perfectly worded my feelings.

WTF

You clearly don’t understand my comment. Yea, Alicia is considered black. But she is also mulatto. So basically, the cover is somewhat off. I merely corrected it, kiddo.

But stop fighting it. You love me. I can tell because you spoke of me before I even arrived. -=)

@ 6 LADY A - YOU GOT FUCKIN PRABLEMS. I WILL POST A PIC OF MYSELF AND SHOW YOU THAT MIXED PEOPLE DON’T HAVE THE BEST FEATURES… WTF YOU SHMOKIN. I AIN’T MIXED, NO MORE THAN HAVING 1/4 CHEROKEE IN MY BLOOD, BUT I GOT PERFECT FEATURES. I HAVE HIGH CHEEKBONES, BEAUTIFUL SHAPED EYES, DAMN NEAR PERFECT LIPS AND I HAVE A BODY TO DIE FOR. I AM BROWN-SKINNED. IF YOU GONNA BE POSTING BULLSHIT LIKE THAT, YOU NEED TO STAY OFF THIS SITE…

Lol @ M E Renegade

I hope you’re a chick saying all that.

caff=myshell=lady a? WTF @ WTF.

Nice gap in 2nd pic!

Black girls may rule, but she looks like a white girl!

love alicia, can’t say nothing bad about her at all. she is truly talented

LadyA…Mixed people do not have the best features. That is such a generalization. Best of both worlds. *sucks teeth*

Meatloaf…As much as I respect Alicia she does not look black in this picture. Sorry…

She does look real pale in the first pic.

Wow M E Renegade, HYPE much? No one cares. Really. It’s the internet.
Seems to me like you’re too worried about others opinions… repeat…OPINIONS. Stop trying to prove shit to others. If someone thinks that, then so be it.

awwww where has she been?

trace magazine is amazing but it never comes out and they have a problem paying their writers. get it together trace!

Do yall remember their Lauryn Hill interview for this issue last year???!!!!???
It was crazy, really crazy!!!!!!!!!!

But congrats to Alicia Tho’ doing big things in movies and with her production company.

lol LadyA do u know what u might start? I thought CL had gotten over those debates months ago.

I like Alicia I really do, but she’s not all the way black, what is up with the “yellow girls ” lately. THey could have easily put GAbrielle on the cover, but whatever. Alicia is gorgeous.

I guess on here you’re fine as long as your lightskinned. Never mind that you have bad skin. No, wait, horrible skin.

I love Alicia! Unlike a lot singers out there, this lady has real talent! She can sing virtually any type of music and still sound amazing! (And she doesn’t need to be half-naked to do her thing, either.) She’s definitely proof that “Black Girls Rule!” And she also looks great in these pics!

@30 DAYUM!!! (curse you CL for disabling registration)

I for one care more about a woman’s mind then her appearance.
But in the interest of goodwill I will offer my services to end this debate. If any of you ladies wish to dispute or validate the claims made by #6 you can send me a picture and I will offer my unbiased opinion (nudity is not necessary but it not frowned upon).

^^^LMAO

Wait, wait, wait…Why does everybody keep saying Gabrielle Union? She is certainly not the dopest black girl around. Highly overrated if you ask me.

If anything, Res should be on the cover. She looks way better than Gabby and she’s black.

Caff who’s Res?

you GOTTA just love licia! she’s the shyt!!

Ill take her music, talent, performances, and etc over BEEEEEEEEEE, ri ri *rihanna, cassie, all of them ANY DAY! and yes I made the comparison

Res is this amazing funky beautiful singer that has been out for a while! she has a song called Golden Boys! I love the beat reminds me of a cooled down Kelis

Alisha considers herself black, so let her be black damn. She is beautiful and talented. And yes, other dark skinned sisters could have gotten the cover, but maybe they wasn’t on their job and that’s why Alicia is on it. She deserves to be on it because she is beautiful AND talented = FIERCE. Gabrielle is just as beautiful, but she can’t act worth a damn! : )

WHO’S RES?!?!?!!?!?!?

Omg, I’m mad. Res is a singer who came out with an album 4 years ago called How I do. She’s ridiculously underrated and was never really promoted enough for her to completely blow. She’s on Lauryn Hill’s level. She’s from philly too.

She’s touring with Gnarls Barkley right now, and she’s working on her sophmore album. But I suggest you go get How I Do, ASAP.

Alicia’s Talent: she gets mad props just cause she plays the piano… Everyone wants to make her out to be some musical genius, but please take away that piano, and she’d be nothing to scream about, she can’t really sing, she just screams to me and her first and last CD were mediocre to me at BEST,aside from Fallin, and A Woman’s Worth on the first one, and You Don’t Know My Name, and If I Ain’t Got You on the second… Take away that piano and she’d just be another light skinned girl ya’ll love to hate!!! On a positive note it does seem like she pours her heart into her music, writes her music, and produces a lot of it, so even though I’m not buying what she’s selling she does a hell of a good job pushing that mediocrity!

ALicia’s Look: Well she’s cute, but Beautiful and Gorgeous, she is NOT, IMO! She has horrible acne still, babygirl is mad photo shopped!! She got a huge over bite, and a big ass nose!!! SO hmmm I guess mulatto’s don’t have the best features… On a positive note she does have a great smile, and her eyes convey a great deal of sexyness(sp?) and mystery…

Alicia’s Cover: Well this cover is like a slap in the face… How can you have a cover that says black girls rule and then have a damn near white bitch on the cover! Trace get’s no love from me for that one… They could of at least put an obvious black girl on the cover!!!

Well that’s my 2cents….

The firt pic is horrible. She looks pale and cracked out.

The second pic is nice though.

I’m sorry!!! LOL, No but thank you, I’ll have to check her out!

Kat25

That was more like $2.73 worth.

THE REAL DEAL:

I LIKE HER………THE PICS. R IIGHT! WHERE DA HELL SHE BEEN? I HOPE SHE MAKES A BIG COME BACK, IF NOT THEN………(ILL STAY THERE)

HOLLA ATCHA GURL

lol @ caff

But Kat, I do agree with everything you said. Ever since A. Keys came out, I wanted to know what the big deal was. Yeah the singles that she releases are hott, but when I bought the CD’S I was disappointed as hell.
And yeah, her voice is mediocre, but she has more range than alot of the females out now.

i think alicia keys is beautiful. i think she looks better then alot of people that are in the indusrty

There are some mad insecure people up in here!!!

Caff Said:
Black girls rule? No, mulatto girls rule.

I swear you say shit to just rile muthafuckas up. Mulatto= black ask a white person they will tell you. She is a beautiful BLACK woman there are many of us. I just wish that we could have a magazine do a special on beautiful black women of all shades.

Not crazy bout the first pic, but she’s looks like a show-stopper in the second.

I have to agree that I don’t see the huge deal about Alicia artistically. I mean, she is good, but I don’t think her debut album should’ve recieved all that acclaim. It was mediocre at best. But she is better than a lot of girls out there today. At least she can carry a tune and plays an instrument.

what happened to” we come in all shades”. so we only want to have pride in our people if they are dark skinned? now if Alicia started to only claim here mothers heritage, you would br screaming, “that bitch know she black”. don’t lie you know that is what you would say. once again people, we come in all different shades from the palest pale to the the darkest berry

CAFF

Don’t flatter yourself, I only mentioned you before you came cause yo “only light is right” complexed ass is too predictable. You’re not sarcastic like you claim in another thread, and you sure ain’t slick. YOU used to diss the dark skinned sistas and be the reason of so many beefs here now you tryna save face. Res probably your “exception to the rule” since all rules have exceptions. Alicia IS black. You just had to say that mullatto comment cause the word alone gets you aroused huh? We’re all mixed with something due to history, she IS black and CLAIMS black.

@ #59 brownsugah305

please scroll up to comment #29, and then take your foot out of your mouth!!!

#61 thank you! had she chosen to represent her mom’s heritage everyone would be like “bitch is black”. And no she doesn’t look nowhere near white here. She still has her negroid features and she ain’t sporting no platinum blonde wig.

@COffy

That is so true we do come in all shades, so IMO the cover should of featured a few sistas all of different shades… I mean if a person did not know Alicia Keys and saw that cover they would be mighty confused, cause she looks white… All shades of black should be celebrated with a cover like that… Not just one yellow broad, this is coming from the mouth, and mind of a yellow broad!

@WTF

In the mind and hearts of a lot of black people the “white” media always praises, identifies with, and gives more attention to the lighter skinned black woman… with that in mind and for a cover like that they should of tried to shatter that opinion by featuring a sister as black as Alex Welk (sp)with the title black women rule!!! Holla Back!!!

#51 Kat 25, it may have been more than 2 cents but it was worth every penny. You spoke the fuckin truth. Take that piano away and her live performances would suck grundle(the space between a mans balls and ass hole). I remember when her and India Arie both came out and got nominated for grammy’s and India got NONE. I was so pissed because she deserved them way more than A.Keys overrated ass.

@ kat25 - but Lauryn Hill had more praises than all the light skinned sistahs of today combined. First black woman to be on the cover of TIME Magazine, aint that dope?

@ CAFF “THE GOOD HUMOR MAN” YES! I A 100% ALL WOMAN. NOT JUST ALL WOMAN, BUT “EVERY WOMAN”.

@ 59 I AGREE. CAFF BE TRYING TO GET PEOPLE HEATED. THAT’S WHY HE BE SAYING SHIT HE DOESN’T MEAN…LOL!

Alicia’s the real deal, she’s beautiful in and out.

I love me some alicia she has TALENT! and she is a graceful young lady with a beautiful voice.

play that piano girl!

Alica looks like that makeup was put on at the morgue. damn, or like a geisha or sumn, not a good look. and well………. her albums are kinda borin but she still gotta getsome props for bein a true artist and not a model-turned-”singer”. or just bein a pretty face.

Lauryn did get mad attention, but when Lauryn was Lauryn she was the undeniable TRUTH!!! Yeah that was dope, but damn how long ago was that?

I don’t know though, I mean Bey is probably not intelligent or prolific enough to ever make TIME, but I swear this week alone I have felt like I am being force fed that bitch…

But come on WTF you know something is very wrong with A. Keys alone on that cover…something about that isn’t right and it stinks!!! To me it just doesn’t go with that statement they are making!

#6 I don’t know wtf u r regarding race? but ur one dumb bish. Where the hell u get that mixed folks have the best features? how u gonna have best features if ur black daddy have a big azz nose and u come out with the same nose? or if ur white mama have a big azz head and cockeyed and u get same traits. See how ignorant that dayum statement sounds? could be vice versa, daddy could be white or whatever with hook nose and beady eyes and mother asian with flathead and crooked teeth and kid looks like both of em,lmao,yet that’s good traits? hmmmmmmmm. I’m 100% black, Alicia’s complexion, naturally curly hair that I relax to make a little straighter, straight nose and nice eyes, I’m not mixed and I have good features. My father is very dark skinned and my mother dark brown, yet I came out light like lot of my mother family, we’re not mixed. Lot of my race is beautiful and not mixed, Beyonce, Kelly, Janet, Nia Long, Nelly, Morris Chestnut, Fantasia and I can go on and on, so why fugg would u make that statement? and Alica does look pretty and she’s down to earth.

@ kat25, I’m aware of what you’re saying, but about A.Keys being on the cover, she’s black, especially to white America, so when they say “black girls rules” that’s because they see a black girl at the end of the day (and that’s what I see too). Alicia never tried to look extra european, she didn’t get no nose job or dye her hair blonde. That’s why I don’t see nothing wrong with that. I don’t see a light black chick with european features. I really honestly frankly don’t have a problem with this cover.