Usher Laughs With Swizz Beatz About 2024 Super Bowl Performance

Usher says he laughed with Swizz Beatz about his viral efficiency with Alicia Keys on the 2024 Super Bowl. The singer additionally discusses the remorse he has for smacking Nicki Minaj’s butt after they carried out collectively again in 2014.

Usher Talks Super Bowl Halftime Show and More on The Breakfast Club

On Monday (Feb. 19), Usher was a visitor on The Breakfast Club, per week after he carried out on the 2024 Super Bowl. The Atlanta crooner addressed the elephant within the room: his intimate efficiency of “My Boo” with Alicia Keys that had the web going nuts.

“In no way anything that was done there should have been viewed as bad or in any way perverted or anything like that,” Usher stated across the 20:30-mark of the video under. “It was literally about having fun because of a song that me and Alicia made many years ago. And we celebrate it because of the legacy of it and no disrespect to anybody or anything like that.”

When requested if him, Swizz Beatz, who’s Alicia’s husband, and Alicia laughed concerning the backlash Usher acquired, he confirmed all of them did. “Absolutely,” Usher revealed. “We laughed about it. It’s crazy how people pick and handle. It’s all about how you present things. But it’s all love.”

After Usher’s efficiency with Alicia Keys went viral, many individuals introduced up his efficiency in 2014 on the MTV Video Music Awards with Nicki Minaj the place he smacked Nicki’s however, showing to bother the rapper. He additionally addressed that incident on The Breakfast Club.

“By the way, that was Jamaican culture, yo gotta go to Jamaica,” Usher stated. “That was just me having fun…I think I was reaching a bit when I smacked her, though. I shouldn’t have smacked her.”

Usher Faces Backlash for Intimate Performance With Alicia Keys

People had lots to say about Usher hugging up on Swizz Beatz’s spouse Alicia Keys throughout their 2024 Super Bowl halftime present efficiency. Boosie BadAzz known as out Usher and stated he owed Swizz an apology. However, Swizz later addressed the backlash saying it was overblown.