She’s Just like Miley Cyrus:
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.”
h/t Hot Air
Seems somewhat related to this, by Tom Maguire
Comment by Jeffersonian on 4/12 @ 4:34 pm #
Tupac/B.I.G in ‘08!!!
Comment by psycho... on 4/12 @ 4:54 pm #
I’m sure Ices T and Cube will be flattered that the insanely convoluted plot to kill black people with non-existent records, that they hatched while they were kids in high school, hasn’t gone unnoticed.
At least her ass isn’t retarded.
Comment by SarahW on 4/12 @ 5:18 pm #
Ms. A(utomat) K(alishnikov) has the necklace alright, but giving her benefit of doubt, maybe she meant “knock – er -shoot ‘em dead” figuratively?
She was raised by her white mom after Daddy r-u-n-n-o-f-t. Perhaps there is some overcompensating going on.
Comment by Daryl Herbert on 4/12 @ 5:44 pm #
If Gansta Rap is a horrible conspiracy by The Man, will Ms. Keys condemn gangsta rappers by name and demand that they stop singing gangsta rap songs?
Because if it’s a horrible, fake conspiracy foisted on blacks by eeeevil whites, you’d think blacks would treat Gangsta Rappers like Uncle Toms.
Comment by Randy Rager on 4/12 @ 5:51 pm #
Well no, because that would be logical, and logic is obviously an invention of evil whites to keep black folks down.
Comment by jmflynny on 4/12 @ 6:05 pm #
They’re coming out of the woodwork now. Obama has done a good thing for his country; he’s helping to embolden the closeted backwards-ass lot of them. While non-blacks are stumbling through the pc word du jour in order not to offend, others such as Keys are laughing their asses off at the acrobatics.
It pisses me off that the scale continues its slide into lunacy. Too often those who try and take the high road are seen to be weak and our reward is to be kicked in the teeth for the effort.
Of course, I’m just a backwoods, pale-skinned, flag waving, Waffle House eating, Southerner, so my opinion is ill-informed anyway.
Comment by The Big Ten on 4/12 @ 6:40 pm #
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to life and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
- Henry Van [slur deleted]
One of the quotes from “Alicia’s Keys to Life.”
Seriously.
Comment by guinsPen on 4/12 @ 6:41 pm #
Ditto.
Comment by Jeffersonian on 4/12 @ 7:41 pm #
I got that in a fortune cookie once. Or was it a bumper sticker?
Comment by Dan Collins on 4/12 @ 7:49 pm #
Wow, Big Ten–that’s completely craptastic.
Comment by narciso on 4/12 @ 8:48 pm #
Ah. great; now when I hear that particular A. Key’s song which is as omnipresent as Musak; i’ll here an AK
in the background. Yes I know, the Crips and the Bloods supposedly arise from Ron” Kwanza” Karenga US movement
and the Black Panther’s supposed feud do to Edgar’s Cointelpro; but answer me this, why are they drawn like a moth
to the flame. Why are rappers, more likely than not, including political literati Curtis ‘50 cent’ Jackson, most often players in the stimulant
distribution scheme. Why pray tell,does
one local rapper, “Rick Ross”, take his name from the ‘pied piper of supposedly CIA supplied’ crack. Why does Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Jackson, Farrakhan, encourage this; and why do the likes of “Barry Dunham” nod silently while this poisonous bilge
is pumped out into the community