Alicia Keys Clarifies Blender Statements

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Alicia Keys is trying to clarify what negative connotation her comment about “Gangsta Rap” and the deaths of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. with Blender Magazine has brought about. Alicia told Ryan Seacrest on his KIIS radio show that :

The term ‘gangsa rap’ was so over-sloganized during that time,” she said, “and in so many ways everyday people as well as the government could have really done so much more to obliterate and eradicate the things that were going on in the community at that time that forced the artists to discuss and talk so strongly what they saw- what they lived with every day.”

And what about her theories on the deaths of Tupac and Notorious B.I.G?

“It was just an over-sensationalized situation,” she told Seacrest. “We don’t know who killed Biggie and Pac. But I do feel like had more communication been done between the two men, that result would have not happened.”

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Alicia Keys is disappointed that all her intentions have been misinterpreted. Nevertheless, she’s not holding a grudge against the magazine.

I hope this is the last thing we hear of this issue coz I really like Alicia Keys and I don’t want her talent and humanitarian efforts get pushed aside just because she opined on something controversial, political and well, touchy to other people.