India.Arie Explains Gap Ads

India.Arie talked about recent criticism of her doing ads for The Gap explaining her decision was not about money using controversial dresser Lil’ Kim as partial reasoning. Arie said, “I did it for the recognition, to get my name out to the masses, I did it to make the point that we don’t have to dress like Lil’ Kim to be beautiful.” Read the full transcript of the emailed message on rnbdirt.com.