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‘My man John Mayer must love the taste of his own foot,’ Talib Kweli tweets. By Gil Kaufman John Mayer Photo: Stephen Lovekin/ Getty Images Following his ill-advised comments in a Playboy magazine interview , in which he used the “N” word, John Mayer has drawn some fire from the hip-hop community. On Wednesday, Mayer apologized for some of the comments he made in the interview, in which he talked freely about sex, former girlfriends Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Simpson, and — most controversially — made comments about black women and his lack of a ” ‘hood pass” that many have perceived as racist. On his Twitter , the Roots’ ?uestlove seemed to be in a thoughtfully forgiving mood about the outburst. “Hmmm. I’ll give Mayer a benefit of the doubt (remember how people misinterpreted my photo?) and assume that was a punchline gone awry,” he tweeted, referring to a photo of an apparently racist lunch menu at the NBC caf