Alcohol always brings out the true personality of a person and Playboy contributing editor Rob Tannenbaum, obviously got the real John Mayer because they were talking after Mayer had drank several glasses of scotch.
That’s still no excuse for what Mayer said, which I might add is TOTALLY racist. First of all, he begins by saying that Black people love him because of his nasty attitude then goes on to say he has a “hood pass” and a “white supremacist d*ck”!
I could go on and on…but you’ll have to read it yourself. My opinion is formed. Deleting Mayer from my “A” pod.
Read the words John Mayer can never take back below:
PLAYBOY: If you didn?t know you, would you think you?re a douche bag?
MAYER: It depends on what I picked up. My two biggest hits are ?Your Body Is a Wonderland? and ?Daughters.? If you think those songs are pandering, then you?ll think I?m a douche bag. It?s like I come on very strong. I am a very?I?m just very. V-E-R-Y. And if you can?t handle very, then I?m a douche bag. But I think the world needs a little very. That?s why black people love me.
PLAYBOY: Because you?re very?
MAYER: Someone asked me the other day, ?What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?? And by the way, it?s sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a nigger pass. Why are you pulling a punch and calling it a hood pass if you really have a hood pass? But I said, ?I can?t really have a hood pass. I?ve never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, ?We?re full.??
PLAYBOY: It is true; a lot of rappers love you. You recorded with Common and Kanye West, played live with Jay-Z.
MAYER: What is being black? It?s making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that?s seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you?ll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude?s.
Alicia Keys & Mayer
PLAYBOY: Do black women throw themselves at you?
MAYER: I don?t think I open myself to it. My dick is sort of like a white supremacist. I?ve got a Benetton heart and a fuckin? David Duke cock. I?m going to start dating separately from my dick.
PLAYBOY: Let?s put some names out there. Let?s get specific.
MAYER: I always thought Holly Robinson Peete was gorgeous. Every white dude loved Hilary from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. And Kerry Washington. She?s superhot, and she?s also white-girl crazy. Kerry Washington would break your heart like a white girl. Just all of a sudden she?d be like, ?Yeah, I sucked his dick. Whatever.? And you?d be like, ?What? We weren?t talking about that.? That?s what ?Heartbreak Warfare? is all about, when a girl uses jealousy as a tactic.
?**UPDATED 2/10/09 5:21pm** John Mayer has hit his Twitter in an attempt to apologize. He writes:
Re: using the ‘N word’ in an interview: I am sorry that I used the word. And it’s such a shame that I did because the point I was trying to make was in the exact opposite spirit of the word itself. It was arrogant of me to think I could intellectualize using it, because I realize that there’s no intellectualizing a word that is so emotionally charged.
And while I’m using today for looking at myself under harsh light, I think it’s time to stop trying to be so raw in interviews…
It started as an attempt to not let the waves of criticism get to me, but it’s gotten out of hand and I’ve created somewhat of a monster.
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. I don’t have the stomach for it.
Again, because I don’t want anyone to think I’m equivocating: I should have never said the word and I will never say it again.
Does that make it all better?
