Nicki Minaj and Usher execute onstage throughout the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on Aug. 24, 2014, in Inglewood, Calif. Jeff Kravitz/MTV1415/FilmMagic
Usher might have taken some warm from viewers for obtaining comfy with Alicia Keys throughout his 2024 Super Bowl Halftime Show on Feb. 11, however while he has no apologies for that minute, he does wish to stroll back another thing he did on phase a years previously.
While talking with Charlamagne Tha God and Jess Hilarious on a formerly tape-recorded meeting that broadcast throughout The Breakfast Club on Monday (Feb. 19), the eight-time Grammy victor reviewed a minute from his 2014 MTV Video Music Awards performance along with Nicki Minaj, throughout which he obtained a little handsy at one factor. “Have you seen some of your old moments, like when you were on stage with Nicki Minaj and you were headbuttin’ her a–? Why was you so unhinged?” host Charlamagne asked him of the efficiency, which additionally consisted of Usher slapping the “Super Freaky Girl” rap artist’s base.
At initially, the “Burn” crooner attempted to discuss and laugh it off a little. “Absolutely! That was Jamaican culture! So you gotta go to Jamaica. That was just a moment that was fun,” Usher — that simply launched his 9th workshop cd, Coming Home, days prior to the Super Bowl — claimed of the island country’s dancing society. “By the way, it was me playing my bass, so I probably would’ve bumped my shoulder or my hand, but I had my bass in my hand and I was playing, so I kind of bopped off her body a little bit. If you go back and look at the video, you’ll understand because I did it there for the first time.”
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During both’s efficiency of their 2014 collab “She Came to Give It to You,” the crooner is down on one knee playing his guitar as he bumps his shoulder and his head versus Minaj’s behind to the beat prior to rising and spanking her behind.
“Oh no it was on beat and everything!” Charlamagne wondered as he reviewed the efficiency. “It was on beat, and I was like, ‘D–n!’”
“I think I was reaching a bit when I smacked her, though,” Usher confessed. “I shouldn’t have smacked her. I shouldn’t have did that.”
Jess after that chipped in, tossing it back to exactly how Usher had previously in the meeting discussed sustaining other Black musicians, “See, you gotta lift her up!”
Replied the crooner, “I was lifting!”
Watch Usher review his 2014 VMAs efficiency on The Breakfast Club listed below:
