Solange Favored Alicia Keys’ Speech at 2025 Grammys

Solange preferred Alicia Keys for citing her in her speech whilst Keys authorized the Dr. Dre International Have an effect on Award on the 2025 Grammys Sunday night (Feb. 2).

“I simply wish to give large like to my brother Dr. Dre who created a valid that started a motion, and your sound advised me that in the event you’re an inventive rising up in Compton or Hell’s Kitchen, you’ll be able to contact the arena. I at all times needed to struggle for a definite degree of admire as a songwriter, a composer and particularly a manufacturer. It’s ordinary that we don’t bring to mind ladies as manufacturers like Quincy or Dre or Swizzy, however feminine manufacturers have at all times powered the business,” Keys stated whilst shouting out Patrice Rushen, Missy Elliott, Linda Perry, Grimes and Solange, to which the latter’s sister Beyoncé clapped.

“Omggg this made me smile so bigggg being discussed on this lineup,” Solange wrote on X Monday (Feb. 3). “Let me cross make some beats lol.”

Whilst Solange appears to be headed again to the studio, she’s additionally headed to the large display screen. The “Cranes within the Sky” hitmaker directed and is starring in Shakersss.mov, a brief VHS movie the place she “provides a diaristic, devotional, inward gaze, presenting the movie as a shifting liturgy of reward expressed thru reverence for self, God, and the exalted mom Yemaya, emphasizing our profound connection to water and its essential function in lifestyles,” in line with the movie’s website online. Shakersss.mov will probably be showcased at MOCA Los Angeles from Feb. 16 to Might 4 as a part of American Gurl: house—land, an exhibition curated by means of Kilo Kish and Zehra Ahmed, featured inside the Womxn in Home windows residency within the museum’s tradition:LAB house.