Alicia Keyes in an effort to keep up a reputation as someone who is intelligent, in touch with the world and not prone to crazy conspiracy theories was quoted by Blender Magazine stating:
“a ploy to convince black people to kill each other … by the government,” etc.
She later retracted the statement:
“I wasn’t saying that I’m a conspiracy theorist, and I wasn’t saying that I’m anti-anyone because anybody who knows my character knows that I’m a very positive person. … My only aim is to uplift people and spread love … overall it was a great article. It was merely a line or two that has provoked all of this madness. I regret (the) negative spin.”
Someone must have told Ms. Keyes that conspiracy theories such as the government making up Gangsta Rap, as opposed to things like anthrax, make her sound not only out of touch with the daily struggles of the everyday American, but just plain whacky.
But them I read this quote today from 50 Cent:
“I don’t like Alicia Keys no more though … the same reason why I said that I don’t like Oprah Winfrey,” 50 Cent toldThe Showbuzz. “I’m prejudice(d). I don’t like people who don’t like me. If you don’t like the content that I write because of my experiences; I am being who I am when I am writing it. I fall into that ‘label’ as far as you considering artists creating ‘Gangsta music,’ we fall into that.
“If she don’t like that, (then) I don’t like that classical music s— she be doing. At some point she’s playing some s— that don’t relate to me. … We listen to it and try to figure out why people actually enjoy it. I am trying to enjoy it. That statement changes my perception of Alicia Keys totally. But the magazine is standing behind it, which means they probably have a tape of her in conversation saying it. It’s just not really a bright comment anyway…
…I think hip-hop is so competitive, that the competitive nature, the art form makes it a competition,” 50 Cent said. “
Wow, that’s some deep sh*t.
Truth be told, I am actually starting to think Gangsta Rap was created not by the American government, but like by the Russians, or the Chinese or Osama bin Laden so that no American will be able to effectively communicate with each other in English again! Who’s with me? Think hard about, you know, stuff. Or be thinkin’ hard on stuff that, you know, be happenin’ which I don’t cuz 50 be speakin’ the truth for me and, um…oh I lost my train of thought…see what I mean?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Well, they be too smart fo’ me ’cause I not understandin’ nuttin’
(Or is that even gangsta? I think I started to sound like someone out of Huckleberry Finn at the end there…)