Keke Palmer Sees Usher In Concert While Her Man Is At Home Embarrassing Himself On Twitter

By Brian Richards | Social Media | July 6, 2023 |

By Brian Richards | Social Media | July 6, 2023 |

Two of the biggest attractions in all of Las Vegas have made numerous people save their paychecks and buy plane tickets to be entertained. One of them is Adele, who has made it very clear that she will not hesitate to f-ck a bitch up if you throw anything at her while she’s performing on stage, and give Kayleigh yet another reason to wonder why these concertgoers are leaving their common sense at home. The other one is U-S-H-E-R R-A-Y-M-O-N-D, who we all know and love as Usher. The residencies for both artists have not only been monumentally successful but judging from the videos shared by fans in the audience, they appear to be an absolute joy for all who are fortunate enough to attend. And at Usher’s show, there was one woman in the audience who was very happy to see him in person to do what he does best. That woman was Keke Palmer.

Ok!!! Usher serenading Keke Palmer during his show 💕 pic.twitter.com/uRunVOV0OD

— MEFeater Magazine (@mefeater) July 5, 2023

If there’s anyone who deserves some time to go out and have fun and live her best life? It’s Keke, who gave birth to her baby boy, Leodis Andrellton Jackson, this past February, and who is raising him with her boyfriend, Darius Jackson. And yet?

And yet… according to Darius, Keke was having a little too much fun at the Usher concert, and doing so while wearing an outfit that didn’t receive his seal of approval, for reasons that I’m sure had nothing at all to do with his ego.

We all know that Twitter has been in poor health recently. And as Dustin himself pointed out, Elon Musk (a.k.a. Fake-Ass Tony Stark) attempting to limit the number of tweets that unverified users can read may have just been the final nail in Twitter’s coffin. That being said … Twitter is still alive, and there is one truism that almost everyone on Twitter is aware of, and attempts to live by. And that truism is this:

So when Black Twitter saw those tweets from Darius? They went after him with more smoke than the Canadian wildfires. So gather around, everyone. The library is open, which means that Darius Jackson is being read for complete and utter filth.

When you’re a mature adult who is in a loving relationship, you usually and hopefully choose to discuss any and all disagreements with your partner in person and in private, with the hope that said disagreements will be resolved to the satisfaction of both you and your partner. Clearly, Darius was absent when this lesson was being taught in school. Because instead of picking up his Boost Mobile phone and expressing his thoughts to Keke — and only Keke — via phone call or text message, he chose to go on Twitter and wave a huge red flag by telling millions of people his unwanted opinions about Keke’s choice of outfit. In what f-cking world does it make sense to try and humiliate your partner, and the mother of your child, on social media? Certainly not this one, despite the occasional f-ckboys and Pick-Mes cheering Darius on, and telling him that the people calling him out in his mentions are just a bunch of simps.

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“It’s the outfit tho…you a mom.” Yes, Darius. Keke is a mom. The mom to your child, that you helped to create. And I can guarantee that when Keke was wearing outfits like this in your presence before she was a mom, and back when the two of you started dating, not a single complaint came out of your crusty-ass mouth. Especially not when the two of you eventually ended up in the bedroom, and performed all of the NC17-rated acts that led to Keke having your baby in the first place. You could’ve spent the evening channeling Courtney B. Vance by taking photos of Keke in her outfit, and sharing them on Twitter to let us all know how stunning she looks, and how proud you are to be with Keke Palmer. But nope! Now you think that Keke needs to start borrowing pantsuits from Kamala Harris for when she goes out in public? Sorry not sorry to tell you this, Darius, but we all know what Keke Palmer looks like. We know how absolutely beautiful she is, just like you know how beautiful she is. Even if Keke wore a potato sack with elevator shoes in public, Keke is going to turn some damn heads, and she will attract attention from both the opposite sex and the same sex. You may not like it, but you need to accept it.

(If you really had some damn sense, you would’ve appreciated that Usher had Keke walking on cloud nine all the way back home from his concert, and did your part to make the rest of the evening even more amazing for her. If you know what I mean, and I think you do.)

Do you not watch The Boondocks, Darius? Did you not see the “Tom, Sarah, and Usher” episode where Tom embarrassed himself and then got his ass thoroughly whooped because he couldn’t handle his wife, Sarah, clearly being infatuated with Usher when she saw him in person? Because you just went full Tom Dubois on social media, Darius, and it is not a good look. If you wanted Keke to look at you and go “Sorry to this man,” right before she runs all the way to Usher’s house in her best Freakum Dress like she just told Christ she’s about to sin again? Well then, mission accomplished.

It’s not enough that you made Black Twitter come together like Voltron to spend all of Wednesday evening talking sh-t about you, Darius. But you also made Black Twitter bring out the receipts. A whole bunch of receipts that drove the point home of how, in the words of Tasha from Insecure, you’re a f-ck nigga. And worse, you’re a f-ck nigga who thinks he’s a good dude.

Not only did these old tweets make Darius look worse, they also made a lot of people question Keke’s judgment, and wonder why she ever thought this man was someone worth being in a relationship with, let alone someone that she had a baby with. (Though this wouldn’t be the first time that Keke’s judgment has recently been questioned by social media.)

Unfortunately, Darius Jackson hasn’t been the only person who has recently felt the need to go after Black female celebrities and shame them for having the audacity to love themselves, to love their own bodies, to show the world how lovely and amazing those bodies are. Earlier this week, R&B/neo-soul singer India.Arie (You remember her, right? The one whose very first hit single was all about telling us that she’s not like those other Black women out here, and how she also prefers to wear sneakers while they wear high heels?) called out both Janelle Monáe and Megan Thee Stallion for their performances at EssenceFest, and how they chose to act and dress during those performances. (Even Luther Campbell from the controversial rap group 2 Live Crew was complaining about Monáe, and this is a man who unapologetically had the lyrics, “Don’t stop, pop that p-ssy, let me see you doo-doo brown!” and “Face down, ass up, that’s the way we like to f-ck!” in his track, “I Wanna Rock.”)

Tracee Ellis Ross had to deal with people clutching their pearls because she was topless while posing for a selfie in her mirror, despite the fact that she used her arm to cover her breasts in said photo. Halle Berry shared a photo on Twitter back in April which showed her enjoying a drink on her balcony at home while nude, and a now-deleted quote tweet went viral for saying that a menopausal woman like herself should be aging with dignity and spending time with her nonexistent grandchildren. The less said about all of the cruel and hateful comments from slack-jawed f-ckwits that are constantly aimed in the direction of Lizzo for simply living and breathing, the better.

As hilarious as it is to see Darius getting dragged and ending up on the SummerJam screen (which he had coming, and he only has himself to blame), the situation as a whole was an unfortunate reminder that 1) Men need to shut the f-ck up, and go get them some men’s business instead of complaining about what women are doing, and 2) All skinfolk ain’t kinfolk, and too many Black people are still convinced that respectability politics are the liferaft that will somehow keep them from drowning in the waters of white supremacy. We already have the rest of the world trying to tear us down, ruin our lives, crush our happiness, and act as if we truly don’t matter. The last thing we need or want is for other Black people to do the same, and act as if it will somehow earn them seats at a table that they will never be invited to join.