While Keke Palmer has been primarily tight-lipped about her boyfriend, Darius Jackson, breaking the internet by criticizing her outfit at an Usher concert, the “Yeah!” singer is speaking out about the incident.
As Blavity previous reported, the internet turned on Jackson when he took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to call out Palmer for wearing what he deemed an inappropriate outfit while she saw Usher perform in Vegas last month.
“It’s the outfit tho.. you a mom,” he wrote in a since-deleted tweet along with a video of Palmer.
He doubled down on his criticisms in another tweet, which has also been deleted.
“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,” he wrote at the time. “This is my family & my representation. I have standards & morals to what I believe. I rest my case.”
Palmer has yet to address the incident publicly. though she did drop merchandise hinting at Jackson’s comments, Blavity reported. Usher, on the other hand, recently spoke out about the incident, which he called a “pop moment” that’s “worth talking about,” People reported.
“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 told 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.”
He added, “Every night I’m thinking about how the world now is going to react to this moment that I’ll have with whoever I’m choosing to sing to. But it was a pop moment, and it was fun to have at least conversation going and we just keep it light. I don’t see anything negative happening in Las Vegas.”
The R&B crooner even poked fun at the new nickname his fans gave him after outfit-gate: “Domestic Terrorist.”
“The internet is crazy,” he told People. “You can’t beat the internet.”
The 44-year-old also talked to People about his new single, “Good Good,” which dropped Aug. 4.
“‘Good Good’ is about being in a relationship with someone and ultimately letting them know like, ‘Yo, we don’t have to be enemies,'” he said. “We might not be good good, meaning we may have not made it to forever, meaning we may not have been the relationship that was going to last forever in the way that you thought, but we can be good.”
The song features 21 Savage and Summer Walker and is his first single since “GLU,” which came out in March.
Usher will be taking a break from his Las Vegas residency to perform several shows in Paris. He’ll return to the Park MGM’s Dolby Live in October.