Jason Derulo allegedly seen pummeling two guys who called him “Usher” in viral video
Whatever you do, don't you dare call Jason Derulo “Usher”
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It’s nearly impossible to get Jason Derulo’s name wrong. He says it in pretty much every song of his. So Derulo was allegedly ready to throw hands when a group of guys called him by the name of another singer: Usher.
In a now-viral video shared by TMZ, Jason Derulo is seen being taunted by two men from afar while riding an escalator at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. He tries to walk down the escalator that’s going up, but is stopped by a man who appears to be his bodyguard. Narrowly avoiding recreating one of the many “Jason Derulo has fallen down the stars” memes, he decides to take the other escalator back down.
Everyone waiting below the escalator was apparently prepared for what was about to happen, pulling up their phones to record possibly the first big celebrity fight of the year.
In the video, a seething Derulo is shown being walked out by his bodyguard. But when one of the guys says, “Hey Usher, fuck you, bitch,” that’s when Derulo apparently loses it. He appears to break free from the hold of his security and charges at the men, as they fight back. It’s all as ridiculous as it sounds, looking more like a scene straight out of Cobra Kai… but with grown men who should know better.
After the men are seen knocking down décor and each other in the brawl video, cops intervened. A different video shared by The Neighborhood Talk shows a handcuffed Derulo apparently being escorted out by police.
As reported by Entertainment Weekly, the altercation happened on Tuesday at 2 a.m. According to Associated Press, police say “the victims did not want to press charges against Derulo” and no injuries were reported. Derulo has yet to address the altercation on social media.
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Literally the only thing I know about this guy is that he’s an asshole about Cats. I’d call him the wrong name just to piss him off too.
So you’ll be an asshole to the guy you claim is an asshole? What’s the end game there, to both be assholes?
“just to piss him off too.”
Clearly the endgame isn’t reading comprehension.
This is the world in which we live, Buster Taco.An ouroboros of assholery. A never-ending human centipede, if you will, which I hope you will not.
Ass to ass! Ass to ass!
“Asshole for an Asshole” is very Old Testament. In the gospel, Jesus tells us to turn the other cheek.
It’s assholes all the way down.
#ReleasetheAssholeCut
#AssholeRedux?
Literally the only time I’ve heard about Jason Derulo before this is in the Cats Pitch Meeting, where they mention that he’s probably going to say his name because he loves saying his name.
Literally the only time I’ve heard about Jason Derulois this.
He sang “Whatcha Say.”
I love that Pitch Meeting (it was the first one I saw). I particularly enjoy the executive guy’s slowly spiralling madness: “Well, it all sounds very jellicle.”
I’d been watching it for a while (thanks to my kids) but my wife hadn’t seen it until I showed her the Cats one. But what made it extra special is that 1) she’s a big fan of Cats (although more because of Eliot’s source material, less so the musical itself) and 2) we were super high at the time.“They’re gonna look like if Snapchat filters came to life and had an extreme thirst for blood.” ← the line where my wife lost her shit and we had to pause for a while
But isn’t Cats kind of an asshole about itself?
Dude says his name before every song, sure sounds like the easiest way to troll him is to get it wrong. But it’d be way funnier to call him Pitbull.
Who the fuck is Jason Derulo
It’s an anagram for “no sod Ja Rule”.
“Genuine Class”!
He’s NOT Usher if you know what the fuck’s good for you!
He was in Cats. He was also on this Sofia Reyes song.
Y’know, at a certain point it’s on you for being so pathetically out of touch. I never cared for nor actively attempted to seek out the dude’s music, but he’s been making chart toppers since the end of the 2000s. Not exactly some flavor of the month tiktok star that only the kids would know about.
https://youtu.be/-61170JTooY
I’d call him Rum Tum Tugger
then prepare to defend yourself!
Great delivery by the punched guy, in fairness. I might make it my whatsapp tone.
“but with grown men who should know better.”have you been in the US the past two years, lol
If you think this is bad, wait until you see what happens when you accuse him of appearing in the motion picture Cats.But seriously I respect the guys who were being punks not pressing charges: you taunted, he rumbled, you deserved it, you’ll probably make $10,000 appearing on TMZ or somewhere, you’re square. I never wanted to go around getting in fights, but the idea that people used to enjoy beating each other up without everybody being sued seems kind of quaint now (but I think the legal action threats are necessary to deter bullying and hate crimes masquerading as old-school fisticuffs)
Huh. I honestly thought I’d be the only one to feel that way.Yeah, if you taunt someone into fighting and they take you up on it, live with the outcome and don’t get the cops involved.
I’m also firmly on the “punch nazis in the face” teamViolence is almost never the answer, but I am at least going to wait to hear the question
That’s a good line to draw. I haven’t been in a real fight in decades, and prone de-escalation, but I’d have a really hard time walking by, say, an actual skinhead without some sort of altercation.
I had a really weird situation once where I met a guy who was an old-school skinhead. As in a like 80s, pro-ska, pro-working class skinhead like the type that used to go to reggaeton and the Clash concerts…it was a puzzler. His view on Nazi skinheads was that they were late to the party and he got there first.
Yeah, I definitely meant the Nazi kind. You can recognize them by what they wear. The anti-fascist ones are alright, and also beat up Nazi skins on sight.I wasn’t aware of any of the O.G. ones like you describe being here in North America though, just the U.K.. Here the anti-fascist ones call themselves S.H.A.R.P.s — or at least did back in my day. I’m old and out of the loop.
I read Dick Hebdige and was interested in the scene for a while so I became familiar, then I was just introduced to the guy and I was like “hey…are you…?”
Violence is never the answer but sometimes it’s the question and the answer is “Fuck yes.”
If only you extended that same courtesy to Palestinians defending themselves from being expelled from their homes by a colonial ethnostate.
Nazi ideology is a promise of violence to anyone they don’t like, so I always think punching one is an act of justifiable counter-violence.
I’m also firmly on the “punch nazis in the face” teamI remember when people were debating this. The punk community settle that one way back and the 80’s. If they say they’re a Nazi, believe them and respond to their actions accordingly.
I don’t encourage it or whatever but I was still disappointed to see that the video doesn’t show him “pummeling” anyone. You see him rushing them, you see some chaos, but I didn’t see anyone getting punched repeatedly. Articles about this type of incident always exaggerate what actually happened in the headline.
This is what most impromptu fights in public look like, honestly: chaotic, not much fun to watch, and over quickly — which is also how I’d describe myself having sex, oddly enough.
Speak for yourself: I’ve been watching you have sex from the bushes outside your house, and I have a great time.
Also, the video really just shows how the guy recording (and the other people recording) are also garbage monsters, just somewhat less so (they’re so excited about ‘being a part of it’, ugh). Just gross all around, And you don’t see the idiots get punched outEdit: And here’s an okay edit of a couple of the recordings (we All have cameras now! Why is this difficult), where you see idiot #2 get punched –
Wow, Derulo landed a really good one. Dude’s got hands. I can see why he doesn’t mind getting into fights with randos.
This is all assuming TMZ didn’t pay them from the outset to try to start a fight with someone famous.But yeah, I miss the halcyon days when that guy in the bar who spent his time trying to taunt other patrons into fighting each other (you know, the “You gonna let him talk to you that way?” Guy), he used to do it for the love of fighting (well, technically, watching other people fight, but you take my meaning). Now the new “You gonna let him talk to you that way?” Guy is a paralegal at the local slip and fall firm, and he “accidentally” leaves his boss’s cards on the bar as soon as the cops get called. What happened to the purity of the sport?
“This is all assuming TMZ didn’t pay them from the outset to try to start a fight with someone famous.”Whenever I get in fisticuffs, I always pause in the middle, throw a peace sign at a nonexistant hidden camera and yell “Worldstar!” This convinces onlookers they are seeing a hilarious staged brawl, thus protecting me from jailtime.
If TMZ wanted them to pick a fight with someone famous, they must have been disappointed when the guys chose Jason Derulo instead.
Sadly, the only instructions TMZ gave the taunters on what “famous” meant was “Would Tatiana Tenreyro cover this for AV Club Newswire?”
I’ve been friends with so many shit-starters (and subsequently gotten involved in said shit) that I kind of wish there was a rapid “we’re just going to rumble for a minute here” clause that precluded frivolous assault cases. They mostly end up in two or so people being held down while a lot of shit is talked, and I’m just lucky that nothing ever went beyond that.
“Hold me back! Hold me back!”
“Stop backing into me, I’m not holding you back!”
Calling someone a name doesn’t deserve physical violence. That’s a stupid position to take. Words can’t hurt you, grow up.
I was going to say “Guess I won’t call him Usher”, but maybe the throwing o’ the hands (is that really what we’re calling fighting these days?) was for the “Fuck you”.
His name is Jason DeRulo, but it’s pronounced “Throatwarbler Mangrove”
It’s pronounced “Urshur.”
You sure it’s not pronounced “your-AY-nus”?
None of this tells us if those guys really did mistake him for Usher, and were genuinely voicing their contempt for him but had the wrong guy. That would make this much funnier.
“Damn, we still need to yell fuck you at the real Usher.”
I am here to protest the OBVIOUS LACK OF PUMMELING in that video.
I just assumed he shouts his name at everyone before he talks
I figure it’s like how a lot of rappers are constantly reminding us that they hail from Brooklyn.
Same with DJ Khaled. They’re like Pokémon.
The one who should be delivering the pummeling is Usher. He can’t be happy that people are confusing him with the walking self-parody that is Jason Derulo.
“looking more like a scene straight out of Cobra Kai”…no it doesn’t.“pummeling two guys”All I saw was some shoving around. Don’t exaggerate.
Didn’t he sweep the leg?
I saw the video, so no allegedly about it.But also the headline makes it seem like he saw a viral video of two guys calling him Usher and then went and found the guys at home and beat them up.
Spike Lee sends out furious Tweet with phone number of “Theater Ushers of America Coalition”.
I would never. Usher is much more talented.
I’ma wait till they release the butthole edition of the video.
Is that a dating app I’ve not heard of?
I really, really love that Cats is his first bill on IMDB.
“Had we known it was Jason Derulo and not Usher as we thought, we’d have been much more aggressive.”
Good thing I wouldn’t know who he was if I saw him. Now Usher I would recognize.
https://www.theonion.com/usher-to-put-shirt-back-on-when-usher-ready-to-put-shir-1819587819
From what I heard she’s gotta baby by Busta/My best friend said he got a beat down from (not) Usher
They weren’t calling him Usher, they thought he was a theater usher.