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  • SUNDAY APRIL 13 2008 6:00 AM

Alicia Keys: Off-Key Conspiracy

Celebrities making uninformed asinine comments is nothing new. You could easily compile a book of them. (Most likely, a paperback book with extra large font, featuring a collage of pasted "wacky" celeb expressions on the cover that you'd be ashamed to buy for the asked $12.99 but would flip through at least once.)

So, yeah, it's been covered. The best kind, however, are those which feature one of the following:

- A celeb SO out of their depths subject-wise that the very idea of them even acknowledging the situation is laughable, regardless of their position.

- A celeb trying to recast themselves in the public as someone with ideas and theories -- a provacateur, if you will. Even when those ideas are clearly parroted from some other source. Sort of the "take me seriously" path. "Hey guys... sure, I'm some douche best known for blank... but think about this thing here... THINK ABOUT IT."

- A celeb who is wrong.

- A celeb who, when they speak up, makes you question why they're a celeb in the first place.

- A celeb who's a musician.

The following comment has 4 out of 5.

NEW YORK (AP) — There's another side to Alicia Keys: conspiracy theorist.


That's a nice way of saying "wack-job."

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.


WOW. Hey there nut-ball, that's enough for today, why don't you find yerself a nice place to grab some shuteye, you're clearly very tired...

Where do you start with that? Maybe by mentioning that gansta rap probably wouldn't have been as successful if the gang life it was referencing hadn't already existed. "Man I love this NWA song!! And I can't wait to find out what the line ''bodies being hauled off' is referencing!"

Other likely Keys theories? Television brought about the birth of radio, daytime imprisons nighttime in a cave somewhere when we don't see it, and every theory put forth by Martin Lawrence's character in the Eddie Murphy vehicle Boomerang. (Sample from memory, "If pool isn't racist, how come the game ends when the white ball drives all the colored balls, and then the black ball, off the green table?"wink

Keys, 27, said she's read several Black Panther autobiographies


What's that quote about a little knowledge being a dangerous thing? Oh, that was it? Cool.

I think that doubly applies when the "little bit of information" is received from the Black Panthers... I'm not sure she's quite ready to be pouring through information from one of the most divisive, controversial and violent groups in recent history. Maybe stick to those thinner, flimsier books they sell at grocery store checkout stands. Like that book, The National Enquirer, or that US Weekly book.

...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...


Ahhh, I take it all back, WHAT WAS I WORRIED ABOUT? This young lady has got it on the ball!

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."


Tupac's to-do list:

Step 1 - Star in Poetic Justice with Janet Jackson.

Step 2 - Lead the world!

He was a great rapper but, c'mon, no way he was even top 20 on the list of people the gov't wanted to kill.

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.


The nonsensical musings just keep coming...

But, NO ONE had those outlets back then. And now, EVERY FAMOUS PERSON DOES, BLACK AND WHITE ALIKE. Including many great black leaders.

And really? That's what held Huey Newton back? His message not getting out? People weren't clear on what he was about?

...I have to figure out a way to do it myself," she said.


I'm sure Huey's admirers everywhere are thrilled to hear it. However, I can think of a few better more pressing issues you should be working on.




TheCoolerKing wishes he had slightly more new material for tonight's show.

 

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Tahloolah

Tahloolah

Buffalo, NY
November 2007

APR 13, 2008 06:50 AM

Alicia Keys likes to do this thing where she tries to impose herself into new things such as movies, or hey.. this bullshit , fightthewhitepeople hate the gvt crazy lady theorist... actually, those are the only things outside of music she's tried thus far.
Either way. She shouldn't. Stick to singing your heart breaky songs so heart breaky 13 yr olds have something to listen to while they put on their lips gloss.
I'm not even sure she should be doing music anymore either. Someone should send her on a search for that cave night time imprisons daytime in so she just goes away.

Gillionaire

Gillionaire

Manchester, NH
February 2007

APR 13, 2008 07:34 AM

Gangsta rap doesn't exist? I could of sworn it most certainly did, when I was back in high school and every single fucking kid other then me was listening to it.

I guess all those kids were just cogs in the conspiracy machine.

Hexenjaeger

Hexenjaeger

Philadelphia, PA
May 2007

APR 13, 2008 08:05 AM

Shouldn't she should stop flapping her gums and start singing again? Quickly? I mean, EVERYONE knows that piano driven, heartfelt RnB with an innercity edge exists only because of the grand conspiracy to keep angry, Rock n Roll and Country Western listening, 14 year old boys from growing up and ascending to positions within government...right?

SoulRiver

SoulRiver

Columbus, OH
January 2005

APR 13, 2008 08:13 AM

Yes. How dare someone with fame and talent express their thoughts publicly.

ldmonster

ldmonster

Miami, FL
February 2008

APR 13, 2008 08:23 AM

That's the problem everyone has a voice and too many people are talking at the same time. I vote on a national shut-the-fuck-up day every month.


yurei

yurei

USA
June 2006

APR 13, 2008 08:23 AM

Holy crap! A celebrity/musician saying ridiculously absurd things...No fucking way.

MStar33

MStar33

Evans, CO
January 2005

APR 13, 2008 09:32 AM

haha Chuck D should go upside her head

Averagebadfriend

Averagebadfriend

Orlando, FL
May 2005

APR 13, 2008 09:57 AM

I read this but did any one who is actually black read this?........any one?........from the comments it does not look like it,what to make of that I don't know.

Mr_Matt_

Mr_Matt_

Pompano Beach, FL
July 2005

APR 13, 2008 10:30 AM

She is still invited to come over and sit on my lap. Otherwise her politics, while admittedly zany, don't bother me.

NiuNiu

NiuNiu

HOPEFUL

I'm lost

APR 13, 2008 10:40 AM

Alica Keys needs to stay home and work on her pitch first.

Quirky

Quirky

Birmingham, AL
October 2005

APR 13, 2008 10:43 AM

NiuNiu said:
Alica Keys needs to stay home and work on her pitch first.



Indeed. How dare she not produce more music to put on your iPod!

NiuNiu

NiuNiu

HOPEFUL

I'm lost

APR 13, 2008 11:04 AM

Narghile said:

NiuNiu said:
Alica Keys needs to stay home and work on her pitch first.



Indeed. How dare she not produce more music to put on your iPod!



ummm, ya...

alaynah

alaynah

San Marcos, TX
February 2007

APR 13, 2008 11:11 AM

haha HATERS!!!!

who cares what her personal views are...shes music, thats all

"pull that tapeworm outta ur ass HEY!" blackeyed

starbuck42

starbuck42

I'm lost
February 2007

APR 13, 2008 11:27 AM

Narghile said:

NiuNiu said:
Alica Keys needs to stay home and work on her pitch first.



Indeed. How dare she not produce more music to put on your iPod!


If she's going to use her fame as a singer to get her crazy personal views published, it is not unreasonable to hope she would at least be deserving of aforementioned fame.

TheFreddy

TheFreddy

Chicago, IL
February 2004

APR 13, 2008 01:26 PM

Goddamn, I think the way people on here are reacting is quite amusing.

Personally, I don't really care for Alicia Keys. She just some cute chick with a cute voice that plays cute song for cute girls real cute-like. But as far as her being this "crazy" conspiracy theorist, she's pretty tame. Trust, some of shit she's talking about have going around for years. It's really nothing new. Besides, she ain't exactly saying "Kill Whitey" or anything like that. Doesn't really bother me.

However, I would point out that maybe she got some of those theories after this happen to her.

From the same article:

Last year, the New York Police Department declassified documents revealing that they'd put Keys under surveillance prior to the 2004 Republican National Convention. The department released a statement explaining that they'd targeted "those openly talking of anarchist actions." Keys, who had spoken publicly against President Bush and donated $500 to the Democratic National Committee that year, was suddenly labeled an enemy of the state. "Hell," she says. "Someone's gotta be an anarchist."



Just sayin'

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