According to a recent issue of Blender magazine, beautiful music isn't all this lovely songstress spends her time creating. According to the 27-year-old, who is half white, she has read several Black Panther autobiographies and wears a gold AK-47 pendant necklace which symbolizes "strength, power and killing 'em dead!" Keys also goes on to say that gangster rap was created by the government as a tool to get black rappers to kill each other and to keep great black leaders from gaining power.
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NEW YORK, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Alicia Keys has released the following statement regarding her recent interview with Blender Magazine:
"I feel it is necessary to clarify the comments that were made during my recent Blender magazine interview since they have been misrepresented.
Anyone who knows me and my character, knows that I am not a conspiracy theorist or, by implication, a racist. My comments about 'gangsta rap' were in no way trying to suggest that the government is responsible for creating this genre of rap music. The point that I was trying to make was that the term was over-sloganized 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.
Additionally, regarding the AK-47 reference, AK-47 is a nickname given to me by some of my friends in jest, 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.
The recent implications about me are too radical and too dramatic a departure from whom I have continually demonstrated myself to be. I work so hard and give so much of myself to bring about positive change to this world, and I only wish those efforts received as much press and attention as the misinterpretations of the Blender article."
Moral of the story? The media doesn't always tell the whole truth, or they cherry pick the things they want. Lies of omission are still lies.
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