I really like Alicia Keys!  The Alicia Keys I know is beautiful, talented, self-aware and politically active.  Some of her some songs are some of my favorites of all-time.  And then I heard that she went crazy, allegedly. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,350916,00.html

Alicia Keys, allegedly, in an interview for a Blender magazine article, said that gangsta rap was created by the U.S. government to motivate Black people to kill each other.  Huh?  If she did make such a comment, I'm not sure who should be insulted the most by it.  Is it the "pawn-of the-government" rappers who recorded music meant to kill their own fans, like insects from the pesticide commercials that unwillingly carry poison into their own homes?

Or is it the "pawn-of the-government" fans of gangsta rap that are too simple-minded to exercise free will?  Oh, and the people in "government" about whom the state was alledgely made may also be a little "bent."

I read now that Alicia is saying that she did not make the comments in the way that they were first reported.  http://www.foxbusiness.com/article/alicia-keys-statement-regarding-blender-magazine_563516_1.html

Whew!  I was really hoping that Alicia Keys is not crazy!