Alicia Keys Wants Her Family to be 'The New Jackson 5'

Alicia Keys thinks it'd be cool if her family could follow in the footsteps of the legendary Jackon 5.

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Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz are talented artists in their own rights. And it seems the two can't help but to produce musical prodigies as well.

Their oldest son, Egypt, produced the track "untitled 07 l 2014 - 2016" off of Kendrick Lamar's Untitled Unmastered, when he was five. Now, the youngest son, Genesis, is showing off his skills. On The Tonight Show Thursday, Fallon and Keys watched an adorable and impressive clip of the 3-year-old beatboxing and mixing in numbers.

With all that talent in the family, Keys told Fallon that she would love to have her family be the "new Jackson 5" with producers, bass players, guitarists, piano players, and of course their little beatboxer. "It'd be kind of fun," she said.

It's no wonder Harvard University wants to do a case study on the family. Although Keys said she "doesn't understand it 1,000 percent," it seems the Ivy League wants to study the couple's "career and life."

In the meantime, the two are super busy. Swizz Beatz just graduated from Harvard Business School and Keys is working on new music when she's not working as a judge on The Voice. And her inspiration is coming from an unlikely place—the bathroom.

"I know it sounds crazy but I was giving Genesis a bath and [the water] was running," she explained. "It gave me this inspiration and I heard it coming out of the water, coming out of the bathroom." It's odd but if it means new music from A. Keys, we're in.

Check out the clip above. Alicia improvs a song about Jimmy at the end.

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