The New Alicia X Diamond Platnumz Collab Is Anything But 'Wasted Energy' - Have You Heard It?

Alicia Keys is inarguably one of the biggest names you will ever hear in the music industry. She has been active for over two decades and her winning streak only proves that she has been at the very top of the league for years on end. With 15 Grammy Awards, 7 BET awards and a total of 152 wins from just over 200 nominations, Alicia is a goddess of the industry. And 2020, despite its ups and downs, has bowed to the class and quality of Keys with the release of her newest, most intimate album, ‘ALICIA’.

In the album, she reveals dark and personal parts of her life as an artist as well as way before the music. However, it is her collab with Tanzania’s Diamond Platnumz that has gotten Africa buzzing since it dropped. The track is called ‘Wasted Energy’ and it embodies a lover who feels drained by the partner for having sacrificed so much time and effort, investing heavily on the relationship only for those efforts to be tarnished. The song is relatively slow paced and has a distant neo-soul touch that blends beautifully with Alicia’s voice. The 39-year-old RnB artist does the first two verses before Diamond marvelously infuses the ending in Swahili.

Diamond had already broken the news to his fans on social media a day before the album dropped, thanking Alicia and her husband and producer, Swizz Beatz, for the opportunity to make his imprint on the album. He wrote, “It’s a Privilege and Honoured to be featured in this iconic Album of the Queen… Thank you @aliciakeys and my brother @therealswizzz for believing in me… I really can’t wait for the album to be out this Friday Sept 18th….” As it turns out, the song is so far a huge fan favourite and Alicia was quick to acknowledge the same.

How iconic do you think this is for Diamond?
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