Usher regrets 'unhinged' VMAs moment with Nicki Minaj - 'I shouldn't have done that'
Usher regrets smacking Nicki Minaj’s bottom during their 2014 VMAs performance.
The two music stars have collaborated twice, once on their 2010 track Lil Freak and again on the 2014 song She Came To Give it to U. However, after Usher’s recent Super Bowl halftime show, a clip of the pair performing together has resurfaced. It has gotten people on social media talking and the Burn singer has now responded.
Usher regrets his actions from Nicki Minaj VMAs performance
In a new interview with The Breakfast Club on Monday (February 19), Usher opened up about how he regretted smacking Nicki Minaj on the butt in 2014.
The two of them sang their track She Came To Give it to U at the MTV Video Music Awards but Usher got a little too carried away. The 45-year-old defended himself but ultimately did admit he was wrong.
“Usher, have you seen some of your old moments like when you [were] on stage with Nicki Minaj and you [were] headbutting her a**?” asked the show’s host Charlamagne tha God.
“Why [were] you so unhinged in that moment, Usher?”
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The celebrity replied it was supposed to be “fun.” During their time on stage, Usher was on his knees as he played a bass guitar while Nicki rapped and, in one moment from the clip, his head bumps into her butt.
“It was me playing my bass so I probably would have bumped my shoulder or my hands, you know what I’m saying? I had my bass in my hands so I just kind of bopped off her body a little bit,” he defended.
However, he relented he was wrong in actually smacking her butt.
“I think I was reaching a bit when I smacked her though, I shouldn’t have smacked her butt,” he confessed.
Nicki, 41, has yet to respond to the resurfaced clip.
Usher landed himself in hot water with fans, too
During his Super Bowl gig, nine years after the VMAs with Nicki Minaj, Usher brought on Alicia Keys.
The two are longtime friends and collaborated on the hit song My Boo, which they performed together at the NFL Championship game. However, at one point, Usher got behind Alicia, 43, and held her to him in quite an intimate embrace.
Despite fans’ worries, Alicia’s husband, Swizz Beatz (real name Kasseem Daoud Dean), didn’t seem to harbor any hard feelings towards the star. Instead, he praised them both for the show they put on in a post to his Instagram. He shared pictures from their time on stage, including one of his wife and Usher.
“Y’all talking about the wrong damn thing !!!” he wrote. “Y’all don’t see that amazing dress covering the entire stadium [laughing emojis]. Tonight’s performance was nothing but amazing with 2 amazing Giants! Congrats @usher and my love @aliciakeys that song is a classic [white love heart] We don’t do negative vibes on this side we make history [peace sign emoji].”
Alicia has been married to Swizz since 2010. They share two children: Egypt Daoud, 13, and Genesis Ali Dean, 9. Swizz has three older children from previous relationships.
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