Alicia Keys Takes Back Her Gangsta Rap Conspiracy Theory
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Alicia Keys's interview in Blender mag caused some controversy and she is clarifying some of the comments she made, specificially when she said that "Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. 'Gangsta rap' didn't exist." She saying now that she didn't mean to imply the feds were behind the creation of the music genre.
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