Keke Palmer has been in the news for drama-related reasons of late, but she hasn’t allowed any of that to get in the way of her craft.
On Sunday (July 16), the 29 year old took the stage at Washington DC’s Broccoli City Festival as a guest performer. During her set, the singer and actress performed her hit “BOSSY” with minor lyrical alterations, which some interpreted as shade toward the father of her child, Darius Jackson.
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“lil booties matter, my son gave me some ass/ I’m my own boss and I got my own cash/ I don’t need a n-gga, only thing I need’s a bag,” she rapped during the show.
Check out the video below:
@_kliggans Keke said this with her WHOLE CHEST. 🔥🤭 IKTR #kekepalmer#broccolicityfestival#bcfest23#broccolicityfestival2023#broccolicityfestival🥦#kekepalmerchallenge#kekepalmerboyfriend
In early July, Jackson removed all photos of himself and Palmer together from his Instagram page, though posts of him with the child he shares with her are still up.
It was subsequently revealed that the two unfollowed each another, which suggests that a breakup was either imminent or had already taken place. Jackson has also allegedly been sliding into other women’s DMs.
Jackson’s behavior seems to the result of the pair’s so-called “Usher booty cheeks” row, which stemmed from a concert of the “Confessions” singer that Palmer and her friends attended where she apparently showed too much skin for her boyfriend’s liking.
The Nope star had a night to remember at the R&B legend’s Las Vegas residency, where he serenaded her with a performance of “There Goes My Baby.”
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The steamy clip showed Keke wearing a see-through lace dress as she hugged and danced next to Usher, who had ventured into the audience to woo the actress.
As the footage quickly went viral on social media, Jackson took to Twitter to share a not-so-impressed reaction to his girlfriend’s wardrobe choice. “It’s the outfit tho.. you a mom,” he tweeted soon after.
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After facing blowback for his critique, Jackson doubled down on his line of thinking.
“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. “This is my family & my representation. I have standards & morals to what I believe. I rest my case.”
