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"&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" src=\"http://ll-media.tmz.com/2010/02/10/0210_john_mayer_bn_tmz_02.jpg\" alt=\"John Mayer\" title=\"John Mayer -- Sorry for Dropping the N-Word\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 15px;\" /&gt;John Mayer&lt;/strong&gt; is apologizing for using the N-Word in that explosively controversial &lt;strong&gt;Playboy &lt;/strong&gt;interview in which he compared his penis to a white supremacist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During the interview, Mayer stated that \"black people\" love him -- and then he brought up the topic of a \"hood pass.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While explaining the meaning of a hood pass, Mayer said, \"It's sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a n*gger pass.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But moments ago, Mayer issued an apology, via Twitter, saying \"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.\"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mayer added, \"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.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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