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- Keke Palmer stars within the music video for Usher’s track “Boyfriend.”
- The music video is out August 16.
- “Boyfriend” pokes enjoyable at Keke’s drama together with her associate Darius Jackson.
It’s the Keke Palmer and Usher collab everybody’s been ready for. Keke, 29, and Usher, 44, each star within the music video for his new track “Boyfriend.” The pair teased the music video on Tuesday, August 15 and confirmed it could be launched the next day. The teaser video that they shared on Instagram options Keke with blue highlights in her hair, observing herself in a mirror, whereas Usher sings, “Somebody said that your boyfriend’s looking for me.” Usher wrote, “when fantasies become reality”, in his caption when he shared the teaser video.
Keke and Usher becoming a member of forces on this new music video comes over a month after they made headlines for his or her rendezvous in Las Vegas. Keke attended Usher’s residency present on July 5 and he serenaded her on stage, whereas she was wearing a black bodysuit underneath a sheer gown. Keke’s boyfriend, Darius Daulton Jackson, who’s the daddy of the child boy she welcomed in February, publicly shamed her for her outfit alternative. “It’s the outfit tho..you a mom,” he tweeted. The remark confronted a right away backlash, however Darius, 29, doubled down.
“We live in a generation where a man of the family doesn’t want the wife [and] mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others [and] he gets told how much of a hater he is,” he wrote in a second tweet. “This is my family [and] my representation,” he added in that second tweet, “I have standards [and] morals to what I believe. I rest my case.” However, the general public response to Darius’ criticism was too sizzling to deal with, and he deleted the tweets.
Keke spoke in regards to the discourse surrounding her physique when chatting with The Cut. “I’ll be honest, I think before I even had the baby, I was really actually quite self-conscious,” she informed the publication. “After having my baby, I’ve gotten so much more powerful. We’re going to lean into this new body, and I think that is the whole aura of what’s happening with me in this big boss era as I come into my 30s, and I have my baby boy, and I’m just continuing to spread my wings as a young woman.”
“Do you, new moms. Do you,” Keke added. “Girl, if there’s one person on this earth that loves you for sure, it’s that baby. Be happy because there’s no love like it. Somebody loving you like that, hell, who cares?” Since the conflict, Keke and Darius unfollowed one another on Instagram and Twitter, however they haven’t confirmed that they broke up.
Usher additionally weighed in on the Keke-Darius drama on August 4. “I think everybody’s vision or a version of what they felt happened there just leads you back to just really having a good time in Las Vegas,” he informed People. “And that’s what I hope came out of it. Rather, it was a conversation of what was going on with us having fun in front of the audience or conversation about that song.” Usher added, “But it was a pop moment, and it was fun to have at least conversation going and we just keep it light.”
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