News Item

ALICIA KEYS ON GOVENMENT (GANGSTA RAP) CONSPIRACY

Alicia Keys has been voicing hip hop conspiracy theories in an interview with Blender magazine.

Alicia reckons that American government types meddled in the world of Hip Hop back in the eighties and nineties - in part creating so called 'Gangsta Rap' - in a bid to cause renewed tensions in the black community, to hinder said community's attempts to gain ground in mainstream American politics.

Those tensions, she says, led to the various Hip Hop rivalries that in turn left rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious BIG dead. Keys admitted that she has been reading several Black Panther auto-biographies in recent months, which have fed the conspiracy beliefs.

She told the magazine: "Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didn't exist. [It was created] by the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing".
Words ChiPpi