Key Takeaways:

• Rakai confused Keke Palmer for Mary J. Blige throughout Kai Cenat’s “Mafiathon 3” livestream.
• Palmer responded by singing “Real Love,” retaining the temper gentle and playful.
• The second sparked on-line chatter about generational gaps in R&B information.

You can’t say Keke Palmer doesn’t have a humorousness. The famend actor and singer appeared as a visitor on Kai Cenat’s livestream on Sunday (Sept. 7) the place Rakai mistook her for R&B famous person Mary J. Blige.

On Monday (Sept. 8), The Neighborhood Talk shared a clip from Cenat’s ongoing, month-long “Mafiathon 3” livestream occasion on Instagram. “The fact that she really started singing is crazy,” they captioned the submit alongside two crying emojis. While seated subsequent to the Cenat, Palmer says “We gotta make something happen” when streamer Rakai steps in to say, “Wait, you did a song…” and begins singing Blige’s 1992 hit “Real Love.”

Despite the apparent recognition fail, Palmer rolled with it, truly singing a part of the track for added laughs. While most everybody else acknowledged what was occurring, Rakai says, “You did that, right?”

She then responded jokingly, “You know it’s me, Mary J. It’s me Mary J. Blige!” drawing extra laughs from Cenat and firm. While the opposite friends within the room had appeared to shortly notice the error, the teenager then tried pinned his fail on his mom: “My mom just texted me and said that.”

While Palmer was elegant sufficient to point out grace, the feedback weren’t so forgiving. “This younger generation is so disappointing… I mean, I used to know all of my parents’ music and [artists]. They don’t know [anything],” one person wrote.

The Emmy Award winner additionally acquired heaps of reward for getting in on the laughs, with one other commenter including, “I love how Keke handled this, [because] they definitely tried playing in her face.”

Coincidentally, earlier this 12 months, Palmer shared a narrative of how the tears she shed whereas starring in Ludacris’ music video for “Runaway Love,” which options Mary J. Blige, was her real response to the track.