Alicia Keys Explains Her Conspiracy Theories

April 16th, 2008 | Posted in Celebrity News, Magazines, Music News | Print This Article

R&B superstar Alicia Keys has clarified her controversial remarks about gangster rap that appear in the May 2008 issue of Blender Magazine.

The multiplatinum songstress told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS-FM radio show Tuesday that those comments were “misinterpreted” and she’s “disappointed with the “madness” surrounding the article.

She explained, “I feel that I wasn’t a hundred per cent clear on what I was saying and so, because of that, it got slightly misinterpreted, and somehow it got misinterpreted that I was saying that the government was creating gangsta rap - and that’s not what I was saying. What I was saying was that the term gangsta rap was so over sloganized during that time…

“That’s what I was trying to talk about. In so many ways, everyday people, as well as the government, could have really done so much more to sorta obliterate and eradicate the things that were going on in the communities at that time that forced the artists to discuss and talk about, so strongly, what they saw, what they lived with.

“I don’t regret doing this interview; overall it was a great article. It was merely a line or two that has provoked all of this madness. I regret that a negative spin has been put (on it).”