Alicia Keys: Blender Misrepresented 'Gangsta Rap' Comments

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richie sick — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:23:45 GMT

alicia, i hear ya sweetie! i like a nice r&b chick that bangs an ak-47 around her neck! sheeeitt, even thought she tried to do a little image-cleaning, it sounds like she's down for the struggle.

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Tommy K. — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:24:08 GMT

Fuck a User!

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Tommy K. — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:27:13 GMT

AK is gangsta!

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GeeQue — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:29:49 GMT

the media can't be trusted!

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LGizzle — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:31:17 GMT

They need to find something to talk about. This is Alicia Keys we're talking about...what is there to take out of context?

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LGizzle — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:31:21 GMT

They need to find something to talk about. This is Alicia Keys we're talking about...what is there to take out of context?

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SOUTH DEKALB404 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:31:53 GMT

Alicia Keys should come out with a mixtape/undergroud album called AK-47!

She chould address the real world issues on it...make music for the struggle, ya know? And then release it directly to the internet and the streets....and maybe for download on intunes...

That would be so G...she should have Lauryn Hill on some songs too..

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qdeezy — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:07:46 GMT

i knew that article didn't sound like her

damn media

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FlyBoy718 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:09:40 GMT

Seems like she knows whats good for her bank account

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Akaneon1 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:22:38 GMT

Don't worry, guys...

No one reads Blender anyways

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Smashit — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:23:10 GMT

Damn seems like "Blender" is a good name for that magazine

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LTBROWN — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:55:38 GMT

“The recent implications about me are too radical and too dramatic a departure from whom I have continually demonstrated myself to be,” Keys said. “I work so hard and give so much of myself to bring about positive change to this world, and I only wish those efforts received as much press and attention as the misinterpretations of the Blender article."

ANY TIME YOU HINT THAT YOU'RE WIDE AWAKE, THE MEDIA IS PROGRAMMED TO SPOTLIGHT IT. BIG BROTHER IS PARANOID CAUSE HE KNOWS WHAT HE'S DONE. DO YOU AK. WHOMEVER YOU WANT TO BE. THE TRUTH HURTS EM THAT'S ALL IT IS. DO YOU.

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Matt Jeezy — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:07:21 GMT

SHE AINT GOTTA APOLOGIZE FOR NOTHIN

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richie sick — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:23:53 GMT

not lookin like that in that picture she don't. clawd have mercy!

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musiK BS — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:32:24 GMT

i used to love blender magazine because its solely dedicated to the music but they did take what she said out of context. being a huge fan of alicia keys i didnt appreciate that. akeys keep makin a difference we do appreciate it

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HipHopManiac — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:40:30 GMT

SHE SO DAMN BEAUTIFUL SHE CAN SAY WHATEVER SHE WANT

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chocolaterain — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:24:40 GMT

Her record company must have panicked cause she may lose her white fans & forced her to backtrack. modern day mental slavery

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jakecrates — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:28:23 GMT

I love you Alicia... Shes a ride or die chick like Eve.....

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Impalamoney — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:48:19 GMT

Man I feel like this, if you said something let it be known.

whoever was interviewin her just caught her on a day when she was feelin like that, it happens.

but Alicia Keys ain't gotta say what she meant or whatever cause da truth is we all knew how she was feelin and what she was talkin bout. It might be an old school mentality to believe the "government" was behind all that but in 08 as blacks, in the lyrics of Jay-Z "WE GETTIN IT" so we ain't really trippin off da government no more cause we seen that wasn't necessarily the problem "holdin us back" but rather our mentality to not utilize what the government gives us and build up from it.

I'm kinda trippin bout how she wants to take back her comments or explain them.

she wanna make gangsta comments, but don't wanna get treated like a gangsta rapper.

people talkin bout her "white fans" and tryna make her out to be Lauryn Hill, she don't rap first of all (not sayin she can't or hasn't done so in the past, but the world know her for singin) and 2nd it ain't like she was dissin white people she was just sayin how she felt. and at the end of the day if she makes "good music" then everybody will buy it her comments ain't gon hold her sales back.

but it's whatever, I don't know what other artists go through on a daily basis with these interviews and articles but you just gotta take it how it is, cause they always be talkin bout da media "misrepresented" or "took somethin out of context",

fuck outta here with that bullshit.

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NightFall914 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:06:06 GMT

As great as Alicia is, she is still one of us which makes her as much of an open target as anyone especially in a year when the 1st blacC presidental canidate of substance is pushing hard towards the white house it's open season on all positive blacC figures for media misrepresentation.

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Backspin202 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:24:45 GMT

They are doing her like they are doing Barack.

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Intelekt — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:32:13 GMT

I think she's been pushed to make these apologies and say all this new shit. I didn't agree with the whole AK-47 thing and some of the shit she "said," but I didn't go nuts over it. If that truly was her opinion, then that's cool with me. I'm with y'all; she don't have to apologize for shit. Stand up for yourself though girl. You could elaborate on your ideas and try to put things more diplomatically, if thats possible, but don't get on that ol' bullshit "they took it outta context. I'm being misrepresented. That's not what I said..." FUCK THAT.

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TRUTH Minista — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:57:16 GMT

Guess the "powers that be" had a long talk with her.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ibsAEZmYrooKgmHaezmgGUKZu-lQD902IKSO0

If you read the actual article, she was pretty clear about the COINTELPRO references, in regards to "gangsta rap." So if she didn't say what they say she said then she has a case for a pretty good lawsuit.

While the Blender article quotes were political the "clarification" was depoliticized, taking the focus away from "the system" and putting the blame on "all of us, even our leaders."

I guess Sister Alicia didn't want to become another Sister Souljah...

Oh, well as Paul Laurence Dunbar once wrote:

"We wear the mask that grins and lies..."

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ShawtyCake — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:20:32 GMT

The magazine probably did misrepresented what she said because that did not sound like Alicia Keys. However if it didn't and she got scared, well at least she tried.

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illseed — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:42:49 GMT

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vega_diamond — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:02:40 GMT

I call my toilet government.....lol

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EMS the Gawd — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:16:23 GMT

lol she's just trying to make sure they dont sabotage her career, im with her there.

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Steelmatics — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:23:38 GMT

i think her record company gave her a bollocking for speakin dumb shit but if your gonna be big enough and brave enough to say stuff like that you should believe it enough to not have to go a retract your statement.

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NightFall914 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:55:47 GMT

Lol, I love reading how many people say "Oh if you said it stand by it", "Dont be scared and explain" blah,blah,blah.......

a)No one was apart of that interview to know what was said.(And lets not act like the media doesnt twist words)

b)No one here has a multi-million dollar career to manage.Its easy to talk about "not retracCing ya words" when you have nothing to lose.

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msnyjerzy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:09:34 GMT

LTBROWN said:

ANY TIME YOU HINT THAT YOU'RE WIDE AWAKE, THE MEDIA IS PROGRAMMED TO SPOTLIGHT IT. BIG BROTHER IS PARANOID CAUSE HE KNOWS WHAT HE'S DONE. DO YOU AK. WHOMEVER YOU WANT TO BE. THE TRUTH HURTS EM THAT'S ALL IT IS. DO YOU.

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JAH JAH — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:03:12 GMT

wow she is an asshole.. she is a hippocrite . fuck that wench.. she stole from The Marleys and got sued.. when she should have just paid them straight out for stealing "No Woman no Cry" FUCK Alicia Keys..she cant make up her mind if shes cool or rightous..
forget it lady..

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LTBROWN — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:07:16 GMT

@msnyjerzy said:
LTBROWN said:
-Co-Sign! When people, especially African-Americans start speaking the truth that's when it's a big whoopty woo!

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@JAH JAH said:
wow she is an asshole.. she is a hippocrite . fuck that wench.. she stole from The Marleys and got sued.. when she should have just paid them straight out for stealing "No Woman no Cry" FUCK Alicia Keys..she cant make up her mind if shes cool or rightous..
forget it lady..

WHY? BECAUSE SHE CALLED AMERICA TO THE CARPET? THANKS FOR MAKING MY POINT.

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