Keke Palmer is set to star in the music video for Usher's forthcoming single, Boyfriend – and the internet is rightfully getting a major kick out of the news, given its proximity to the boyfriend drama she endured in July.
The music video will arrive on Wednesday, mere weeks after Darius Jackson — Keke's boyfriend and the father of her infant son, Leo — drew warranted criticism for quote-tweeting a video of the actor being serenaded by Usher at one of his Las Vegas residency shows. “It’s the outfit tho... you a mom,” he quipped, in reference to Palmer's sheer black dress. In a second, since-deleted tweet, he added: “We live in a generation where a man of the family doesn’t want the wife & mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he gets told how much of a hater he is. This is my family & my representation. I have standards & morals to what I believe. I rest my case.”
Iconic.
In the aftermath, Keke Palmer shared a photo dump from the concert. “I wish I had taken more pictures but we were running late!” she wrote in the post's caption. Jackson, meanwhile, disappeared from social media before re-emerging two days later with all photos of Keke deleted from his accounts.
Usher and Palmer both shared a teaser of the soon-to-be released video on X (formerly known as Twitter). The clip features glimpses of Palmer primping and drinking champagne in her hotel room before leaving with a group of female friends for a big night out. Usher, meanwhile, is seen getting ready backstage before a performance. “Somebody said that your boyfriend’s looking for me/Oh that’s cool,” Usher is heard singing as the track kicks in near the end.
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This article originally appeared on GLAMOUR US.
