3 Years and Counting

Posted on July 1st, 2008 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Alicia Keys, News

Posted by Bossip Staff

By age 30, Alicia may pack it up for good:

Superstar Alicia Keys is reportedly considering an early retirement from the entertainment business. The multi Grammy-winner has hinted at calling it quits by the age of 30, so she can spend time traveling the world, according to reports.

The 27-year-old singer/songwriter often finds herself exasperated by the pressures of fame and in 2006 she took a break from music and traveled to Egypt to recuperate. The “No One” hitmaker insists that her hectic schedule is setting the stage for her to enjoy life in the nearby years.

She says, “I am working hard now so I have the choice to retire when I want. I would like to travel the world and stay in places instead of having to move on like I do now. I want to experience difference cultures.”

This is more than likely some publicity bullshyte. As if this little diva could go without all that attention. Please.

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  • Madame Enigma

    Slow ‘news’day, huh?

  • Just_Wanna_Know

    1st?

  • Lush-Us Lipps

    1st!!!

  • Lush-Us Lipps

    Effff IT! 3rd then…. :(

  • Aunt Viv

    I don’t see it publicity. She’s young, and has the money-if I were her, I’d do it too.

  • sdfsdfg

    She is a hot member of an online dating club “casualseek.com”. Seems she is seeking casual lover.

  • WTF… R U talking 2 me?

    Seems like “little” Jorge is mad he wasn’t 1st!

  • Lush-Us Lipps

    Maybe she does need a break, but I can’t see her retiring, too much talent to waste.

  • LB

    A) Alicia is FAR from a diva

    B) She’s a grown woman with more money that most of us combined and can do whatever she wants

    C) she’s not going anywhere ;)

  • What the..

    would these artists please stop using “retire” and start using hiatus.

    mystical = retired

    blu cantrell = retired

    nelly = hiatus

    beyonce= hiatus

  • Ashley

    Alicia has gained an incredibly large fanbase in a very short amount of time. i highly doubt she’s gonna walk away from that.

    notice how that article said she “HINTED” at it, not said it straight out

    My girl is gonna continue to kill em dead regardless of all the haters that wish she would go away. lmao!

  • I’m Just Me

    Hey is I could retire by 30 I would.

  • http://lcrump127@optonline.net lolo127

    WOW,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

  • Somer

    Isn’t Alicia already 30. Oh yeah, her Hollywood age is 27

  • Blacksmith

    Not to mention this is just a little snippet of everything she had to say, I heard much more from this interview on the radio this morning.

  • Envy Me (Established in 1983)

    oh well her 15 mins are up…..she couldve went down in history

  • Ashley

    @ Blacksmith

    what station? do they have a link or anything?

  • LdyK

    Im a lil salty with her after all the swizz beats shizz…I am hoping it aint teuw but waht a whire -bucket if so!

  • http://www.gravatar.com Re (I know you’re not blind cause I saw you run in that dark hallway without your stick)

    What’s going to happen is:

    She’s going to travel the world, helping poor children and women.

    She’s going to be incredibly moved, and feels the need to sing about her experience.

    She’s going to come out of retirement early.

  • Star

    >This is more than likely some publicity bullshyte. As if this little diva could go without all that attention. Please.

    ummm..HATER? she went on for a year without the fame,glitz, and glamour I’m sure she can probably do without it . She has enough money retire why not retire in your prime? She’s not Master P or Snoop Dogg lol..Of all the celebrity she’s probably the only one that isn’t a diva. You don’t see her in limelight all the time i.e. Christina Milian.

  • Ashley

    oh yeah i forgot about the Wisconsin show tonight. Have fun!

    Oh and anyone who actually believe that Swizz Beats Rumor doesn’t pay attention to the facts. u shouldn’t get ur facts from gossip blogs without checking the time lines lol

  • LB

    “She’s going to travel the world, helping poor children and women.”

    She does that already lmao

  • bree is an OBAMA supporter.. YES WE CAN!

    is she promoting The Dream’s album LOVEHATE?..if you haven’t bought that album it’s a must buy!

  • http://www.gravatar.com Re (I know you’re not blind cause I saw you run in that dark hallway without your stick)

    @LB

    Lol, good point

    @Nikki

    Hahaha, as a matter of fact, I do! You’ve found out my secret **hanging head in shame**

  • Earth Sign

    Thats wuz up. I would love to go to Egypt

  • PRTTYBRWNGIRL

    GOOD RIDDANCE! i cant bare to hear her scream out another album .. her last album was so totally overhyped & overrated its unreal to me. this girl can not sing, but as a pianist she’s very talented. hopefully she will return.

  • PRTTYBRWNGIRL

    she just wanna retire she so can live her life out of the public eye with her girlfriend … putting them swizz beat rumors out there to distract people from her OBVIOUS homosexuality

  • bria

    She is an extremely intelligent young lady who always carries herself as a lady. I don’t know her but I am totally proud of this young lady. She recieved fame in a day and age when they want to make all young women particularly black and brown women look like street walkers.

    So you go Alicia because you are one of few that can raise your head with some kind of dignity.

  • sxyQblondie

    *WERE*

  • http://www.gravatar.com Re (I know you’re not blind cause I saw you run in that dark hallway without your stick)

    Nikki…

    I shan’t not tell thee thy secrets, for one must keep them dearest to they heart to preserve the value.

    …I don’t know what the Hell I just said, but it sounded good.

    @Ms Maloy

    You are NOT the only one. Trust and believe, I’ve noticed for awhile. They’re just not funny.

  • Nickey

    @ Ms. Maloy

    Its not just you.

  • LB

    how is it that the same people who are saying that she’s overrated and that her last album was this and that, actually took the time to listen to it. I never understood that. if u DON’T like someone’s music, why would u even bother listening to their album to begin with? that is some azz backwards sh*t if i’ve ever heard it lol.

    As I Am was so overrated that it hit 3.5 million copies in the US alone in only 7 months BWAHAHAHAHAH!!

  • dayg715

    please, this “chick” is trying to deflect attention from that “affair” she had with swizz beats (or was it with mashonda????)

  • dayg715

    why hasn’t she neither confirmed OR denied that so called rumor?

  • http://www.myspace.com/ocky_j Octavia

    “This is more than likely some publicity bullshyte. As if this little diva could go without all that attention. Please.”

    I dunno… she did just fine in that break between her second and third album. I think she is sincere.

  • http://www.theblackactor.com/ Baby Please

    LOL; glamour girl one minute; dyked out the next.

    LMAO

  • Aalimah

    @glok9

    ewwww…..who wants that fake mess. Alicia is a NATURAL beauty. No one is perfect. And she does quite well without.

  • Ashley

    “I’ve learned to expect nothing, but dream of everything I possibly can, then, there is no end, just endless beginning.” -Alicia Keys

  • Brooklyn, Stand UP!

    Alicea has to be one of the sexiest R&B singer out. WOW, what a hottie!

  • laura

    You this does not seem right. If you go to http://www.imdb her age is listed at 28 and on wikipedia it’s 27. The whole story is just for her to get attention. I love Alicia Keys, but come on don’t start that Jay-z mess.

  • Celebrity CSI

    (clapping) bravo…(screaming) see ya! lol

  • glok9n

    @AALIMAH! SHEZ NO NATURAL BEAUTY …SHEZ HALF AZZ AT BEST, SHE NEEDZ TITZ TO BALANCE THE SEMI- AZZ ACTION SHE GOT GOING! MY OPINION!

  • DA TRUFF HURTZ!!!

    “WHO” DID “SHE” ACTUALLY “REPRORTEDLY” HERSELF “SAY” THIS TO???

  • http://www.gravatar.com Re (I know you’re not blind cause I saw you run in that dark hallway without your stick)

    @Nikki

    Lol, I thought so, I wasn’t sure until you finished the line. If I see you write Go Browns one more time my arms are going to come out your screen and starts chocking you.

  • Bozo D. Clown

    Mmm… Alicia Keys…

  • dfiestyone

    Alicia, you can go and play in traffic any day now for all I care!!

  • LB

    its funny how much people hate her for being popular and selling records. its hilarious how pathetic it is actually lol

  • ThatsBull00

    Yes Like a fool I brought her album, well my mum did, because of the singles but I truly don’t like the album I think is a bit over rated

    Simply based on her last performs when she got off from the Piano and I realized she can’t see that well and damn sure couldn’t dance.

    That Piano has been her security Blanket or a distraction to how mediorce her talents really are.

  • ThatsBull00

    I meant can’t “sing” that well Especially at the BET awards

  • LB

    yeah because every knows that being classically trained in the piano isn’t a talent or skill all in its own. :|

  • kai

    t

  • glok9n

    @KAI! LOL! NOT ME……. I LISTEN TO SHALAMAR!

  • kai

    @ glock, lol…..they are not current as a matter fact are they even alive?

  • kai

    I agree AS I AM sold way more than it should because it wasnt that great, but that was because Diary was her best and the haters know it.

  • Aunt Viv

    SHALAMAR was da truth lol!

  • Jack Tripper

    To behonest Keys has come a long way when i first saw here perform she opened for Maxwell’s NOW album. She was garbino’! Her first album SUCKED her second is her best. Her third is medicore.

  • justaddhotmilk aka phoenix_simone_xoxo aka she got legs

    one time for the radio raheem three finger fingers “love” and “hate”

  • Shavon Denise

    Um shes really not that much of a diva I can see her doing that. That sucks for all of us fans but I wish I could do that muyself. Its the life to live and although she isnt doing any “HARD” work, she still works hard and if all the other superstars did that they wouldnt be going crazy.

  • Merina

    she just wanna retire she so can live her life out of the public eye with her girlfriend … putting them swizz beat rumors out there to distract people from her OBVIOUS homosexuality

    True Dat True Dat

  • PRTTYBRWNGIRL

    LB is a A Keys STAN … she commented after every 3 posts … DAMN people are entitled to their opinion and people dont have to buy a cd to hear an artist now days HELLO! there is a thing called the radio. no matter how mediocore or plain terrible a popular artists latest release is, it will still garner tons of air time. i heard the first single from her album on the radio and knew her vocals she have gotten WAY better for as long as her hiatus was, and if anything they seemed worse to me. I will admit her talent as a pianist but it ends there. Her screaming, raspy ragged vocals annoy the hell outta me. My ipod is full of Sade, Alejandro Fernandez, Temptations, Vivaldi and other classical composers so PLEASE do not imply that because people dont like Alicia Keys that they dont know what real music is. The same people quoting how many albums she moved as a reference for how great she is will say the exact opposite if people tried to use that same reference to claim Lil Wayne is the best rapper out there.

  • Dark Skinned Godest

    Maybe if Alicia just came out the closet

    P.S

    it’s okay Alicia it’s 2008 NO ONE cares if your a lesbian you can come out the closet you and your ugly girlfriend)

  • miss tang

    @ PRTTYBRWNGIRL …i know you and LB’s conversation is not any of my business but ima put my 2cents in any Damn Way …LB is a STAN and your a HATER-STAN SO STFU….moving right along….I really think Alicia just needs to rethink this becuz she will be deeply missed

  • kenyadayze

    she is gorgoues and if she decide to retire thats on her but i will always be a fan of alicia no matter what.

  • http://www.myspace.com/jackmove718 Naw Son

    Alicia has been 27 for the past 5 years

  • black woman

    i swear ever since beyonce say she gone give up singing or any thing beyonce downs every one is so jealous and such a copy cat of a bee its just not funny any more. beyonce is a leader ever one eles follows.

    alicia keys can sing but she cant dance and this cd here is really not all that good. sit yo boreing ass down.

  • black woman

    i swear ever since beyonce say she gone give up singing or any thing beyonce downs every one is so jealous and such a copy cat of a bee its just not funny any more. beyonce is a leader ever one eles follows.

    alicia keys can sing but she cant dance and this cd here is really not all that good. sit yo boreing ass down.

  • LB

    @PRTTYBRWNGIRL

    bytch, stop writing paragraphs. ain’t nobody reading that shyt.

  • Sparkle

    If I could afford to sit my azz down and stop workin at 30 I would to. She’s made her money in the bizness and didn’t she get a 50 million dollar deal with 50cents drink company? Hell I’d be outta here too. Well Alicia when you do it. I can hook you up with a real estate friend of mine in Brazil, nice private villa with a view of the beach, beautiful bronze colored people, peace, quiet, spirituality, lots of Afro-Brazilian culture. Give me a ring ya dig!

  • Mock Rock Star

    If she needs a travel partner I should be finish with school by then.

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