The Colombian superstar is saying sorry to those he offended.
Naturally, the video would be provocative ... but it seems Balvin and co. went all in on the canine theme -- getting a lot of their dancers/background actors in animal-style makeup, in which many of these folks of color were made to look like actual pooches.
The project was slammed by several critics, but the biggest may have been Colombia's very own Vice President and Chancellor... who deemed it sexist, misogynistic and flat-out racist. After all the backlash -- it was taken down by Balvin.
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