Keke Palmer‘s new album, Simply Keke, isn’t simply dropping new beats; it’s dropping fact bombs about her very public and really sophisticated relationship along with her son’s father, Darius Jackson. She lately opened up concerning the challenge and her hopes that he’d be her “Steadman.”
As BOSSIP beforehand coated, the saga of Keke Palmer and Darius Jackson grew to become unavoidable after Jackson’s now-infamous July 2023 tweet criticizing Palmer’s outfit at a Usher live performance. That public spat rapidly escalated, resulting in their official cut up in October 2023. The drama intensified when Palmer filed for a restraining order towards Jackson in November 2023, alleging cases of bodily and emotional abuse. Jackson, in flip, filed his personal restraining order, portray an image of mutual discord. Nonetheless, in a current improvement, the couple reached an amicable joint custody settlement for his or her cute son, Leo, in Might 2025, requesting to drop the circumstances, signaling a transfer in the direction of extra peaceable co-parenting.
Now, Keke Palmer’s new album, Simply Keke, serves as a deeply private soundtrack to the previous two years of her life. She describes it as “not simply an album — it’s my actual life,” a uncooked and emotionally unfiltered journey. The challenge opens with “Off Script,” a monitor the place she seemingly addresses misconceptions about her son’s conception, making it clear Leo “was introduced in purposefully.”
Keke Palmer’s New Album: No Filter, Simply Her Fact
One of the vital talked-about moments from Keke Palmer’s new album comes from a monitor the place she lays out a transparent disappointment:
“You hear however you don’t hear, you continue to don’t love you, even after I allow you to get me pregnant! Oh, sh*t, how else can I show it!? Was alleged to be my Steadman, as an alternative you went on that child daddy sh*t!”
For these needing a reminder, Steadman Graham is extensively celebrated as Oprah Winfrey‘s supportive, long-time accomplice, recognized for by no means making an attempt to overshadow her.
In interviews selling Simply Keke, Palmer has been remarkably candid about her determination to handle such intimate particulars publicly.
“After I mentioned the factor about my son, it’s like, you do suppose if you and somebody come collectively and determine to have a toddler, y’all have made that call collectively and that was…my son was introduced in purposefully, that ‘hey we’re on the identical web page.’ Nevertheless it doesn’t imply that,” she shared with The Breakfast Membership. “And I feel even moreso, after you’ve gotten a child, you begin to see issues in another way than possibly the way in which you noticed them earlier than. That no matter insecurities you’ve gotten, that no matter insecurities they’ve, since you go from being a one to a two and now a 3. And so I feel having a toddler will actually check a relationship and present you who you need to be to indicate up for that little one.”
She additionally revealed that Jackson had heard the album and was “actually proud” of her for being so open, suggesting a degree of maturity of their present co-parenting communication regardless of their previous.
Simply Keke is now out there on all streaming platforms.
