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Remember that awesome piano Alicia Keys had made when she and Jay Z collaborated for “Empire State of Mind?”

You know, the one with the New York City skyline painted on the outside that she showed off in the official music video and at the 2009 VMAs? (Video via Universal Music Distribution / Jay Z)

Well, turns out, the gorgeous instrument now belongs to Queen Latifah.

And it’s all thanks to a very special good Samaritan she met at Alicia’s Black Ball charity auction.

“I sit next to this white guy, I don’t know this guy. But he seems cool, like, he seems chill. And so, he looks like, ‘Yo, you wanna get this piano?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, let’s start bidding!’ So we start trying to get the room to bid on this thing. And we get it up to like $150,000 for this piano,” Queen Latifah said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

“Wow,” Jimmy Kimmel replied.

Yeah, wow is right. But the Queen was even more surprised when she and the mystery man went up to pay for the piano.

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