Mateo, Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz 'Say It's So' -- Watch

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Up-and-coming singer Mateo, who dropped his 'Love & Stadiums' R&B mixtape earlier this year, has released a visual for his Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys-featured first single, 'Say It's So.'

Taking an obvious cue from Big Sean's wardrobe, the Cincinnati-bred crooner rocks a hoodie and sleeveless denim jacket in the David "Dahveed" Telles-helmed video, wandering the streets of New York, as he alternately ponders the skyline, rides the subway and plays an old upright piano, searching for his lost love.

Though Swizz and Keys do not make an appearance in the video, Mateo ultimately meets his girl on the Brooklyn Bridge, but inexplicably keeps walking past, defiantly brandishing his Metallica patch (?).

"You go through a break-up and a relationship and you hope that that person is hurting as bad as you are," Mateo explained of the song, in an interview with The BoomBox. "It's kind of warped in a way but it's the truth. You want the person to be hurt just like you and I'm really saying 'I know this don't sound right, but I hope you're hurt like me.' Then I know that you feel something or that our relationship meant something."

Mateo's EP 'Love and Stadiums II' will be released via iTunes on Dec. 6.

Check out The BoomBox's exclusive interview with Mateo here.

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"WORKING CLASS HERO," the first single released by sycicWALRUS, a new hip-hop/rock group formed around the hot and gritty new CITY ROCK TV series, is now available for download! Do a search on ITunes for "Sycic Walrus, Working Class Hero" and you will find us, or simply go right here to the facebook music store: http://www.facebook.com/sycicWALRUS?sk=app_155326481208883.
You can view video trailers from the CITY ROCK series here: http://cityrocktv.blogspot.com/2008/03/city-rock.html
Spread the word. The next two singles from the CITY ROCK album will be out in the next week.

November 12 2011 at 6:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

All the Mateo info

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