Quick Quotes: Mary J. Blige Addresses Crispay Chikin Buffoonery

Mary J. Blige needs a hit (on the charts, messy ass) and a tissue. The Queen of Hip Hop & Soul says the backlash following her endorsement of Burger King’s crispy chicken wrap was cute and stuff at first but some of you really hurt her feelings.

“It crushed me for like two days,” she told Angie Martinez on Hot 97 yesterday. “My real family members stood up for me but all those fair-weather friends, and suckas that were online poppin’ junk.”

She went on to reveal that asking ‘what’s in the new chicken wrap’ wasn’t apart of the original script for the commercial, and also that Burger King sped up the off cue question and added it without her permission. Plus, Willona Woods says she wasn’t paid for the advertising spot. Get into her interview:

Her first reaction to the Burger King commercial

I went online to listen to the remix I did with Fat Joe and I’m looking for that and all I see is Burger King, chicken, buffoonery and I’m like, “What the heck?” It just broke my heart that people were going crazy and I understand the laughter and the jokes that was happening. That’s all good! You’re supposed to do that when something like that happens. It made people’s website [hits] go up. It made people get more ratings on their radio stations. Cool. Whatever. Hehe Haha, but the thing that hurt me is when people were just starting to say vicious and negative things that didn’t even have nothing to do with that. What it did was expose everyone and everything that was in my life and it showed me who my friends are.

When I saw it, it hurt me so bad. It looked like soft porn. On the part where it says “What’s in the chicken wrap?” How about this, I was asking them a question for real. I couldn’t remember the words so I was like, “What’s in the chicken wrap?” They sped it up and made me look ridiculous. It was like I wanted to crawl under the bed. It was crazy how I felt, you don’t even know. I had to go to the airport the next day when it was hot off the press. It was a mistake! People look at it as a mistake but I did it because I thought it was something that wouldn’t come out like that.

What she expected from the commercial

It was sold to us that I would be shot in an iconic way and it was going to be great so I was looking for someone to have mercy but no one had mercy and it’s cool. It was a learning experience.

How the negative comments affected her

It hurt my feelings. It crushed me for like two days but after those two days I got up and I kept going. Andre Harrell, my real family members stood up for me but all those fair-weather friends, and suckas that were online poppin’ junk. People were jumping out saying “Uh-Oh, I didn’t do that, not me.” It’s like who asked you? And that’s the type of stuff that hurt my feelings so bad and 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 purposely. I thought I was doing something right so forgive me and now I’m moving on.

If she felt as the actual commercial was a mistake

Now I feel like I did. I didn’t know I was making one honestly. First of all, as a kid I always wanted to do something like a Burger King commercial, or ‘have it your way’ or even a McDonald’s commercial. When we were kids, my father, who is a musician wrote us a jingle to McDonalds, which is crazy. At the end of the day, it’s something that I always wanted to do and dreamed about and that’s why I did it. No, they didn’t pay me $2 million dollars. It was about an branding opportunity.

| Quotes via Necole Bitchie

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