Singer Alicia Keys tells Blender Magazine that 'Gangsta Rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other

[Terminator]

NEW YORK (AP) — There's another side to Alicia Keys: conspiracy theorist. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter tells Blender magazine: "`Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. `Gangsta rap' didn't exist."
Keys, 27, said she's read several Black Panther autobiographies and wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck "to symbolize strength, power and killing 'em dead," according to an interview in the magazine's May issue, on newsstands Tuesday.
Another of her theories: That the bicoastal feud between slain rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. was fueled "by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing."
Keys' AK-47 jewelry came as a surprise to her mother, who is quoted as telling Blender: "She wears what? That doesn't sound like Alicia." Keys' publicist, Theola Borden, said Keys was on vacation and unavailable for comment.
Though she's known for her romantic tunes, she told Blender that she wants to write more political songs. If black leaders such as the late Black Panther Huey Newton "had the outlets our musicians have today, it'd be global. I have to figure out a way to do it myself," she said.
The multiplatinum songstress behind the hits "Fallin'" and "No One" most recently had success with her latest CD, "As I Am," which sold millions.

[Ducky]

She's been drinking some funny kool-aid, hasn't she?

[lewisipso]

A plot by the government? Makes sense. I'm pretty sure I heard "W" bust a rhyme about his gak just the other day.

[HudsonHawk]

This must be the doom and gloom that was mentioned in the other post.

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NEW YORK (AP) — There's another side to Alicia Keys: conspiracy theorist. The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter tells Blender magazine: "`Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. `Gangsta rap' didn't exist."
Keys, 27, said she's read several Black Panther autobiographies and wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck "to symbolize strength, power and killing 'em dead," according to an interview in the magazine's May issue, on newsstands Tuesday.
Another of her theories: That the bicoastal feud between slain rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. was fueled "by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing."


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i cant stop laughing at the fact that anyone would categorize the notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur as "great black leaders".


a couple of real role models there

keep "killin em dead" alicia

[TheeBadOne]

[121Traffic]

BWAHAHAHA, this is some funny shit right here.

[gopherpuckfan]

She's been drinking some funny kool-aid, hasn't she?

So, since she's black she drinks kool-aid?

[Ducky]

So, since she's black she drinks kool-aid?

Screw that, paranoid bitch been drinking MY Kool-Aid! She's either tripping on acid, or crashing from one incredible sugar high.

[AITG]

It amazes me when people give the government credit for things like inventing Gangsta Rap, creating the AIDS virus, introducing drugs to the inner city, etc.

GET A GRIP, people. The government can barely patch potholes, deliver the mail, and forecast tomorrow's weather. Do you really think they are that good at conspiracies?

TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS!

On the bright side, at least they aren't blaming guns...

[Willowdared]

Yet more evidence that smokin' weed kills brain cells.

[ex401mp]

If she is going to spout off about all the "great black leaders" ( I mean Tupac? Biggie? give me a break), isn't she going to leave her own mother out of the loop? Sounds like she is going overboard in embracing only part of her own heritage.

[jmur5074]

You guy want a conspiracy??

I was the second shooter on the grassy knoll.

[CTR man]

She's been drinking some funny kool-aid, hasn't she?

So, since she's black she drinks kool-aid?

Screw that, paranoid bitch been drinking MY Kool-Aid! She's either tripping on acid, or crashing from one incredible sugar high.

I think her kool-aid was somehow laced with cyanide a la Jonestown, Guyana Massacre and she came back to life.

[10-42Adam]

Sounds like she's headed for the looney bin just like her friends Britney Spears and Lindsey Lohan...

[CTR man]

Oh we mustn't forget Paris Hilton.

[Ducky]

Oh we mustn't forget Paris Hilton.

I'd just about managed it, too.

[AITG]

You guy want a conspiracy??

I was the second shooter on the grassy knoll.

Actually, having watched the Zapruder tape (played backwards, while listing to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club") I have come to the conclusion that Kennedy shot himself!
Deal with THAT shit.