Usher Responds To Keke Palmer's Outfit Drama | HuffPost Entertainment

Usher would like to remind fans that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.

The eight-time Grammy winner was inadvertently thrust into the center of heated discourse last month when video of him dancing with Keke Palmer at one of his Las Vegas residency shows surfaced on social media.

The clip soon caught the eye of Palmers boyfriend, Darius Jackson, who expressed his disapproval of the Nope actors sheer Givenchy dress on Twitter.

Usher serenades Keke Palmer pic.twitter.com/xbMFlXu7FF

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Usher serenades Keke Palmer pic.twitter.com/xbMFlXu7FF
RNB RADAR (@RNB_RADAR) July 5, 2023

Its the outfit tho.. you a mom, he wrote of Palmer, with whom he welcomed a son, Leodis Andrellton, in February. When fans began calling him out for mom-shaming, he doubled down on his stance, noting: We live in a generation where a man of the family doesnt want the wife & mother to his kids to showcase booty cheeks to please others & he gets told how much of a hater he is.

Jackson, a fitness instructor, appeared to deactivate his account on Twitter (now branded as X) shortly afterward.

In an interview with People last week, Usher touched on the controversy, describing it simply as a pop moment that was worth talking about.

I think everybodys 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 said. And thats 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.