Alicia Keys has attempted to clarify comments she made about gangsta rap in a magazine interview.
The singer told Blender that the musical genre was created by the US government to “convince black people to kill each other”.

However, she later said she was “disappointed” with the outcry caused by the remarks, telling Ryan Seacrest’s radio show: “Somehow it got misinterpreted that I was saying that the government was creating gangsta rap - and that’s not what I was saying.

“What I was saying was that the term gangsta rap was so over-sloganised during that time… That’s what I was trying to talk about.