Alicia Keys Was on Ryan Seacrest's Radio Show, Doing Damage Control

After her recent sensational Blender article, Keys has had to do some pointed damage control, explaining that she's not a government-hating, media-bashing conspiracy theorist. She was just "misinterpreted."Right. Because there are so many ways to interpret the quote "Gangsta rap is a ploy to convince black people to kill each other"

Alicia said:

To clarify that statement�"what I was saying at the interview�"the term gangsta rap was so over-sloganized during that time... and that in so many ways, everyday people, as well as the government, could have done so much more to really obliterate and eradicate things that were going on in the community at that time that forced the artists to talk about and discuss so strongly what they saw, what they lived with every day.

As much as people are talking trash about Alicia, little do they understand how many journalists write their articles. They not only edit the hell out of their interviewee's statements, but they probe and encourage you to make statements like Alicia made.

The journalist who wrote the damn article could have said the same thing first, prompting Alicia to say what she said. I wasn't there when Alicia held her interview, but I know how a lot of journalists work. I work with many of them who live to expose dirt.

Whether you agree with Alicia or not, I applaud her stupidity for speaking out like she did.

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