Alicia Keys strikes a pose on the cover of this month’s Blender Magazine available in good news outlets next Tuesday. But the contents of the article are already stirring up some serious controversy in the media with some of the comments attributed to Keys.

Keys is reported to suggest that the government created gangsta rap as “a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didn’t exist”

She also points an accusing finger over the deaths of Tupac and Biggie Smalls as being fueled by “the government and the media, to stop another great black leader from existing.”

The Associated Press also reports that Keys has read several Black Panther autobiographies and wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck “to symbolize strength, power and killing ‘em dead,” according to the magazine interview.

Her mother denies this though: “”She wears what? That doesn’t sound like Alicia.”