Usher and Keke Palmer can’t cease stirring the pot. After teasing the collaboration 24 hours in the past, the 2 stars have debuted the music video for the R&B legend’s new music “Boyfriend,” following some drama with the actress’ alleged ex-boyfriend, Darius Jackson.
The Wednesday (Aug. 16) visible stars a glowing Palmer having an evening out along with her mates and hanging with Usher, who taunts within the music’s lyrics: “Any person stated that your boyfriend is on the lookout for me, that’s cool/ He ought to know I’m fairly straightforward to search out/ Simply search for me wherever he sees you.”
Halfway by, the video pauses to indicate the Nope star and her gal friends listening to Usher’s 2001 hit “U Remind Me” in an elevator, throughout which she exclaims, “I like this music… do you bear in mind the place you had been if you first heard this?”
After a suave dance break in a on line casino led by Palmer, who lights up onscreen, the video cuts to her waking up in mattress to reply a FaceTime name from (guess who?) Usher. That’s the place she drops within the greatest diss towards Jackson: “S–t, I’m so drained… I’m a mom, in spite of everything,” she says, winking on the digicam.
The cheeky line pokes enjoyable at Jackson, with whom Palmer shares a six-month-old son. Final month, Jackson took to Twitter to name out Palmer for a sheer outfit she wore to Usher’s Las Vegas live performance, lamenting: “We dwell in a era the place a person of the household doesn’t need the spouse & mom to his youngsters to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he will get advised how a lot of a hater he’s. That is my household & my illustration. I’ve requirements & morals to what I consider. I relaxation my case.”
Reposting a clip of Usher dancing with a swooning Palmer in the course of the present, Jackson additionally wrote in a now-deleted tweet: “It’s the outfit tho.. you a mother.”
Neither Palmer nor Jackson have commented on the standing of their relationship since. Regardless, Palmer appears to be dwelling her greatest life, taking to Instagram following the music video’s launch to thank Usher for “encouraging me and seeing me because the entertainer I’m.”
“I do know I’m a gUrL however after I watched your movies, I by no means needed to be the lady in them, I needed to be YOU,” she added in her publish. “Thanks for making a dream come true.”
See beneath.
