Alicia Keys Pulls A Reverend Wright

[peggygee]

Alicia Keys says comments to magazine were 'misrepresented'
1 day ago

NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Keys says she's not a conspiracy theorist. In a statement issued Tuesday, Keys said she was clarifying "comments that were made during my recent Blender magazine interview since they have been misrepresented."

According to an interview in the magazine's May issue, the 27-year-old singer says: "`Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. `Gangsta rap' didn't exist." She also is quoted as saying that she wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck "to symbolize strength, power and killing 'em dead."

"We stand by our story," Blender spokeswoman Kate Cafaro told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

"My comments about `gangsta rap' were in no way trying to suggest that the government is responsible for creating this genre of rap music," Keys said in a statement issued by J Records. "The point that I was trying to make was that the term was oversloganized by some of the media causing reactions that were not always positive. Many of the `gangsta rap' lyrics articulate the problems of the artists' experiences and I think all of us, including our leaders, could be doing more to address these problems including drugs, gang violence, crime, and other related social issues."

As for the AK-47 remark, Keys said Tuesday that AK-47 is a nickname given to her by friends "as an acronym for Alicia Keys and a metaphor for wowing people with my music and performances, `killing 'em dead' on stage. The reference was in no way meant to have a literal, political or negative connotation."

When AP attempted to reach Keys last week about the Blender interview, her publicist, Theola Borden, said the singer was on vacation and unavailable for comment.

The multiplatinum star behind the hits "Fallin'" and "No One" most recently had success with her latest CD, "As I Am," which has sold 3.4 million copies, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

On the Net:
Blender: http://www.blender.com/
Alicia Keys: http://www.aliciakeys.com/

[punkox]

While we're at it, I think the US government's cover-up of Roswell is just their way of suppressing the alien minority in our culture today. Aliens have rights too!

It's preposterous how the US government designed HIV as a way of killing off the extraterestrials that like butt sex and anal probing... just wrong... Harry Truman doesn't care about aliens....

[LoneWolf]

Alicia Keyes has a fantastic voice and awesome piano skills, but has never sounded too smart in her interviews.

"Gangsta rap" was a conspiracy. Not to kill black people, but to sell albums to suburban white kids. Suge Knight and all those guys were just putting on an act.

If Keyes ever saw a real Kalishnikov, she'd go hide behind her burly bodyguards and cry her eyes out.

[Hostile]

Meanwhile she was raised by a white mother who did raised her right. It should'nt matter what your skin color is, if your a good person then .... Besides I do not recall white people inventing gangsta rap, kinda stupid shit just like George Bush blew up the Towers, only a fool believes this bullshit.

THERE IS ONLY ONE RACE, BLACK, WHITE, YELLOW , RED , BROWN, GAY, TS, LESBO, CD/TV WHATEVER, WE ALL BLEED RED AND ALL DESERVE TO BE LOVED & LIVE OUR OWN LIVES WITHOUT DRAMA

[Hotboy]

is she even black?

[Dino Velvet]

Alicia Keys says comments to magazine were 'misrepresented'

Many of these retractions by celebrities or politicians are more suspicious than the original story themselves. All the lawyers, agents, and other management get together and then a day or so later suddenly things were taken "out of context" or they "misremembered" or "misspoke". Fame can cause people to lose their minds and get a delusional idea of what's OK to say or do.