Usher has some suggestions for Apple CEO Tim Cook. The Grammy-award winning singer met with the Fortune 500 exec at Apple’s sprawling California campus to discuss 2024 Super Bowl plans, and after a lengthy tour, suggested Cook invest in a new mode of transportation. “I gave him a pair of skates,” Usher recalled to Fortune .
“I told him, you’ve got enough space here, maybe you should use them in the hallway. Get you where you wanna go quicker.” The R&B icon, who made history as the most-watched Super Bowl performance of all time, infamously sang, danced, and entertained 130 million viewers at this year’s game–all while wearing a pair of roller skates.
Two main results from Usher and Cook’s meeting emerged: an instant meme of Cook wearing a t-shirt with Usher’s face ironed onto it, plus suggestions for how to help the approximately 1.45 million Americans currently living with type 1 diabetes . “That t-shirt is probably going to be valued for millions someday so I’m hoping that I can get one,” the singer joked in an interview with Fortune .
Tim Cook appears in latest Apple Music Halftime Show ad pic.twitter.com/RImpFmv6nJ After his star-studded Super Bowl performance, Usher says he’s now readying his talents for a different stage: Capitol Hill.
Usher is set to join a contingent led by French pharma giant Sanofi that will meet with legislators in Washington, D.C. later this month to discuss the importance of early screening for type 1 diabetes, a condi.
