For the first time since she was flame broiled for her coontastic crispy chicken wrap commercial for Burger King [click here if you missed that], Mary J. Blige explains her side of the story...
Mary tells Hot 97's Angie Martinez,
“It was just something I thought would have been a great branding opportunity. It never was a chicken commercial. It was about a sandwich and I was singing about the ingredients. That’s what I thought it was.”
“I went online to listen to the remix I did with Fat Joe, ‘Another Round’, and all I could see was Burger King and chicken and the buffoonery...it just broke my heart. People were just going crazy crucifying me...and I understand the laughter and the jokes and the stuff that was happening. That’s all good. You’re supposed to do that when something like that happens. It made people’s websites go up. It made people get more ratings on their radio stations, but the thing that hurt me is when people started to say vicious negative things that didn't have anything to do with it.”
“It was a mistake when you look at it at the end of the day, because people look at it as a mistake, but I did it as something that wouldn’t come out like that.”
“So I want to apologize to everyone that was offended or thought that I would do something so disrespectful to our culture. I would never do anything like that purposefully. I thought I was doing something right. So forgive me, if that hurts you.”
