R&B Singer Alicia Keys Upsets Rapper 50 Cent
Date: 04/20/08 | Singersroom News
Filed under: R&B News, Alicia Keys
50 Cent has hit back at R&B singer ALICIA KEYS for criticizing gangsta rap, insisting her comments were "not really bright." Keys boasted controversy by voicing her opinions on the hip-hop subgenre, telling Blender Magazine, "Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other."
Keys' comments have reportedly enraged rapper 50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, whose music is said to fall into the gangsta rap category.
Keys issued a statement later saying that her comments were "misrepresented" and that she isn't a "conspiracy theorist" or "a racist."
"We stand by our story," Blender spokeswoman Kate Cafaro told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Regardless of Keys' explanation, 50 Cent wasn't too thrilled with the comment.
He tells The Showbuzz, "I'm prejudice(d). I don't like people who don't like me. If you don't like the content that I write because of my experiences; I am being who I am when I am writing it. I fall into that 'label' as far as you considering artists creating 'Gangsta music,' we fall into that."
50 went on to say, "If she don't like that, (then) I don't like that classical music s--- she be doing. At some point she's playing some s--- that don't relate to me. … We listen to it and try to figure out why people actually enjoy it. I am trying to enjoy it. That statement changes my perception of Alicia Keys totally. But the magazine is standing behind it, which means they probably have a tape of her in conversation saying it. It's just not really a bright comment anyway."
Keys has since retracted the statement, insisting her words were taken out of context.
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Music is supposed to soothe, uplift, relax....why do we feed into this stuff....why people why??....More listening, less gwafaking (look it up) Maybe 50 figured he was an expert since making the vitamin water commercial where he's directing the orchestra...lol, or maybe Alicia's people and 50's people set this up so folks would beleive the hype. DON'T BELEIVE THE HYPE!
Alicia Keys if you don't like his music keep your damn comments to yourself. He's getting that paper!!
Mike is so lame
the fact is that both alicia keys and 50 cents are not singing values to the society. Alicia is black and 50 is black so whtever they say concerns black people and what concerns black people concerns the community in general. I do think that people have the right to sing whatever they have to sing and no music should be criticised. Alicia is most stupid to know that music dosen't lure people to mess up and kill eachother but the poor upbringing, division and negligence in a society like America does!
ALICIA SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now 50 is picking on Alicia for speaking her mind yet he had nothing to say when Eminem dissed black women. So it's safe to say that not only is he complete moron but an Uncle Tom as well!
THIS IS TO 50 UR STUPID ASS MUICS DOESNT HELP THE COMMUNITY EVEN THO ITS SAD I DONT GIVE TWO FUCKS WHAT U BEEN THROUGH U THINK UR THE ONLY ONE UR LUCKY TO HAVE LIVED BUT ALICA KEYS MUSIC BRINGS LIFE TO A DAED WORLD SO GO SIP SOME HEN AND SMOKE A BLUNT
The truth hurts. I think gangsta music has done more harm to the mentalities of listeners than help. It's obvious who is more stupid and less creative between 50 & Keys: I say 50.
I THINK 50 SHOULD FALL BACK- SHE'S TO FINE TO GET BRUISED UP YA DIG!!! 50, DON'T SEND YA GIRLS AT HER... A MESSAGE TO ALICIA, CALL ME I'LL PROTECT U...
50 shoulg chill keys is a beauty ,maybe she said it and realised it after ,all the same i can say maybe its a slippery of a tongue chill 50.whatsup witchyah?