“I understand my fans being upset by what they saw. But, if you're a Mary fan, you have to know I would never allow an unfinished spot like the one you saw go out.”

Mary J. Blige, on her Burger King commercial, after being criticized for playing off “stereotypes of dancing, singing, and chicken-loving black people.” The ad has since been pulled from circulation “due to a licensing issue.”

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