{image-alicia-keys-231007_14042008.jpg entertainment.oneindia.in}[an error occurred while processing this directive]London (ANI): American R&B musician Alicia Keys has bizarrely blamed the US government for the deaths of black singers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. *In a new interview for American music magazine Blender, the singer opened up about her political views and conspiracy theories. Keys claimed that the US government invented 'gangsta rap' with a purpose.

She said that the rappers' slayings were fuelled by "the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing". The 27-year-old singer also claimed that the gangsta rap movement never existed, but was created "as a ploy to encourage black people to kill each other".


[an error occurred while processing this directive]Keys, who has sold 25 million albums worldwide, believes the government encouraged the 1990s murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. "The murders were fuelled to stop a great black leader from existing," The Sun quoted her, as telling the magazine.