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Alicia Keys: Off-Key Conspiracy
Submitted by TheCoolerKing
Edited by erin_broadley
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?"![]()
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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