Grammy Award winning singer Alicia Keys is on the cover of the May/June issue of Blender Magazine. Alicia talks about her theories behind "gangsta rap" and how it was a part of a "ploy to convince black people to kill each other." Alicia also speaks about looking forward to making more socially conscious music. We're up for any music Alicia Keys has to share. Watch Alicia Keys spoken word poetry on Def Poetry. Alicia Keys goes deep during her performance. Click here to watch trailer Gangsta Rap From Compton to Paris trailer.
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. source
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