alicia keys: "'Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other.

[hole in the sky]

i think we can put her in the same looney bin as mel gibson and tom cruise.






http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080411/D8VVUAHG0.html

"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."




i hate it when people believe they're "in" on some esoteric knowledge and make themselves out to be the lone 'torch-bearer' of whatever ridiculous version of truth they attest to.

[ThoughtCriminal]

lol what nonsense... Fueled by the government?
like some CIA operative was calling Tupac telling him : "Hey Biggie's been saying all kinds of shit about you, I would do something about that if I were you.."
:D

[Liberty City]

Stupidest thing I've heard all day. Someone tell this bitch to kill herself with a banana.

[YorkshireMan]

What a dumb bitch

[/Tilt/]

fueled "by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing."
I'm sorry, but how many "great black leaders" have there been in American history. MLK was one, Frederick Douglass was another. That's really it. I doubt Tupac or Biggie even had the credentials to be a great black leader.

[BJ and UT5]

I'm sorry, but how many "great black leaders" have there been in American history. MLK was one, Frederick Douglass was another. That's really it. I doubt Tupac or Biggie even had the credentials to be a great black leader.

Well I guess we'll never know, because the CIA killed them.

[THE PRODIGY 666]

She is a moron tupac and other who were killed contributed nothing to society nothing

[Daucus Karota]

she looks like a white man with a tan!

[pimf]

i think we can put her in the same looney bin as mel gibson and tom cruise.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080411/D8VVUAHG0.html

"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."



I don't think gansta rap was 'the ploy' to get blacks to kill each other, but historically she has a point. Go do some research on the FBI's 'cointelpro' and tell me is she still sounds as looney as you think she does now.

One way to defeat your enemies is to get them to fight with, or kill each other. This is what we are doing in Iraq right now, creating the chaos to have the different tribal factions to fight with each other instead of fighting with US and allied forces.

[texmaster]

hot chicks get away with more.

its the law

[goatwalker]

So, who is she blaming for gangsta rap then?

Is she just looking for attention, how did her last album do?

[THE PRODIGY 666]

I don't think gansta rap was 'the ploy' to get blacks to kill each other, but historically she has a point. Go do some research on the FBI's 'cointelpro' and tell me is she still sounds as looney as you think she does now.

One way to defeat your enemies is to get them to fight with, or kill each other. This is what we are doing in Iraq right now, creating the chaos to have the different tribal factions to fight with each other instead of fighting with US and allied forces.


Look at muslim countrie we are not in they kill each other there as well they are Animals

[Face Plant]

CIA put AIDS in the pool

[_jax]

lol what kinda faggot pays attention to what alicia keys is saying when she talks. i'd just be watching those lips like "uh huh.... uh huh..." 100% garantee - whoever interviewed her was a female/homosexual. also- thread starter.

[_Joe]

There goes her career....

[Daucus Karota]

ew she looks like a guy!

[_Joe]

ew she looks like a guy!

What picture are you looking at?

[Daucus Karota]

What picture are you looking at?

all of 'em


http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/stylewatch/bestlook/070702/alicia_keys.jpg

[_Joe]

all of 'em


http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/stylewatch/bestlook/070702/alicia_keys.jpg

I think she's still sexy, except when she puts the braids in

[_jax]

aint you a homosexual daucus?

[Daucus Karota]

aint you a homosexual daucus?

bisexual _jax

[_jax]

o i c

so man-like alicia keys should be the best of both worlds to u

[_Joe]

bisexual _jax

So wouldn't you like it more if she DID look like a guy? (even though i don't think she does...)


EDIT: Beat me to it, jax

[_jax]

titties and an adams apple

cant beat that combonation daucus

its inevitable

time to join the dark side

[_Joe]

titties and an adams apple

cant beat that combonation daucus

its inevitable

time to join the dark side

I don't see an Adam's apple.

[_jax]

she's good at distracting people from it with her female charm and her paranoid conspiracies

[pimf]

all of 'em


http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2007/stylewatch/bestlook/070702/alicia_keys.jpg

Just a bad shot IMO. Here's a good one. If you wouldn't hit that you might be gay.

White guys in my office are crowded around my desk right now.

http://www.yowazzup.com/blog/images/alicia-keys.jpg

[Daucus Karota]

yeah she is hot...I was just kidding




I'd hit that!

[drahkcorjc]

lol this thread is getting to be hilarious.

[droogsteve]

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

I wonder if that includes her white mother.


It cracks me up that the bi-racial Keys identifies with the worst of the culture of the father who abandoned her as a child, pretty much denying the white woman who raised her. Same exact scenario with Halle Berry when she made her nutty Oscar speech.

I guess there's just not enough drama in being white.

[TFS]

I wonder if that includes her white mother.


It cracks me up that the bi-racial Keys identifies with the worst of the culture of the father who abandoned her as a child, pretty much denying the white woman who raised her. Same exact scenario with Halle Berry when she made her nutty Oscar speech.

I guess there's just not enough drama in being white.

Well, look at Obama: his mom was white and he was raised in a predominently white environment, but damn if he still isn't THE champion of black people...

[Daucus Karota]

I wonder if that includes her white mother.


It cracks me up that the bi-racial Keys identifies with the worst of the culture of the father who abandoned her as a child, pretty much denying the white woman who raised her. Same exact scenario with Halle Berry when she made her nutty Oscar speech.

I guess there's just not enough drama in being white.

maybe the white man makes them feel like unwanted "bastard"children.

[Shaster]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080415/D90237RO0.html

I think it's safe to say that this website is bullshit.

EDIT: Nevermind, sry the title made me laugh and I just had to post it.

[hole in the sky]

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=309645&GT1=BUZZ1


i guess she got a lot of heat from the media for her comments, this is the latest regarding her conspiracy theories:


"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."

[Spike Lee]

She is reffering cointelpro. Either way, I don't care.

[_jax]

It cracks me up that the bi-racial Keys identifies with the worst of the culture of the father who abandoned her as a child, pretty much denying the white woman who raised her. Same exact scenario with Halle Berry when she made her nutty Oscar speech.

I guess there's just not enough drama in being white. i can explain this phenomena to u in 3 words...


paper bag test

[droogsteve]

i can explain this phenomena to u in 3 words...


paper bag test


Huh? Under the paper bag test, the "whiter" the person was, the more accepted they were. Whiteness was the desired quality.

In this case, these two obviously mixed race women are disavowing their whiteness and trying to be "blacker". It seems like the opposite of the paper bag test to me.

[Nocturnal]

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.

Gangster rap was made up?

[_jax]

Huh? Under the paper bag test, the "whiter" the person was, the more accepted they were. Whiteness was the desired quality.

In this case, these two obviously mixed race women are disavowing their whiteness and trying to be "blacker". It seems like the opposite of the paper bag test to me.paper bag test is simple, if you are darker than the paper bag then you are legally a nigger. 9 times out of 10 a person who is half black half white would fail the paper bag test. alicia keys might be an excpetion. but for the most part, historically, the general consensus seems to have been that white blood is pure and if it is dirtied or diluted by being mixed with the blood of other races then the offspring of that interracial couple is not white.

it's no new phenomena that people of biracial heritage tend to side more with their black side, that's been the way of the world for as long as any of us can remember. this can be spinned in a racist way by either side. whites can say that they have the purest bloodline and it can't be diluted to mixed and still be considered white. blacks can say that black characteristics are genetically dominant while white characteristics seem to be recessive. it's an age old idea that people have always had about biracial breeding.

i revert you to fear of a black planet by public enemy

white dad, white mom, white baby
black dad, black mom, black baby
black dad, white mom, black baby
white dad, black mom, black baby

[anti-liberal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzeZhCt5PVA&feature=related

"Gangsta rap made me do it...."

[Nocturnal]

paper bag test is simple, if you are darker than the paper bag then you are legally a nigger. 9 times out of 10 a person who is half black half white would fail the paper bag test. alicia keys might be an excpetion. but for the most part, historically, the general consensus seems to have been that white blood is pure and if it is dirtied or diluted by being mixed with the blood of other races then the offspring of that interracial couple is not white.

it's no new phenomena that people of biracial heritage tend to side more with their black side, that's been the way of the world for as long as any of us can remember. this can be spinned in a racist way by either side. whites can say that they have the purest bloodline and it can't be diluted to mixed and still be considered white. blacks can say that black characteristics are genetically dominant while white characteristics seem to be recessive. it's an age old idea that people have always had about biracial breeding.

i revert you to fear of a black planet by public enemy

white dad, white mom, white baby
black dad, black mom, black baby
black dad, white mom, black baby
white dad, black mom, black baby


No excuse for why it continues, but historically it was whites whome decided who was black and who was not. Ie. the child of a slave owner and a black slave was still...a slave (aka black).

It's sad. What was once thrust upon them by a cruel establishment is now embraced. A well adjusted and sane bi-racial person would probably identify themselves as such... both white and black.

[_jax]

in an ideal society perhaps. but here in the real world a bi-racial person walks down the street, 9 times out of 10 they are percieved as black. you can't help what you look like and at the end of the day it really is APPEARANCE above all else that dictates "race."

[hole in the sky]

in an ideal society perhaps. but here in the real world a bi-racial person walks down the street, 9 times out of 10 they are percieved as black. you can't help what you look like and at the end of the day it really is APPEARANCE above all else that dictates "race."

i actually agree with you, and came to the same conclusion to other day.

i wondered why bi-racial people (half white half black in this case) almost always seem to lean towards black culture, but it makes sense. they are going to identify inititally with whoever 'appears' to have similiarities. due to the predominantly darker skin of these people, it's natural for them to already have those visual incentives.

appearance seems to have more to do with establishing identity than it should, but you can't ignore its influence.

[Stanky105]

Off topic, but are the ebaumsworld add spaces influenced by whatever the thread topic is? All of the posts about islam advertise "singlemuslim.com" and now I keep getting alicia keys adds on this thread.

Edit: Hah, yeah, about 80% of the threads influence the ad space. My life just got more entertaining.

[fatmoocow]

Tupacs late music was all about stopping the violence and changing the way black life is in America.

[Polkovnik]

well, it's true.