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.
Good luck with that. I can't think of a quicker way to destroy your career than to start writing and recording Black Panther anthems.
As far as the Tupac (or more correctly "One Pac" after he was shot in the groin on a previous occasion) vs. B.I.G. feud, the government didn't have to do anything to make those guys hate each other. They came by it naturally. And had they both lived, I doubt that either of them would ever have been considered a "great black leader". If they ever were thought of in that way, then you'd have to assume that the requirements for greatness in the black community have been badly diminished.
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