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Halle Bailey and boyfriend DDG paid tribute to two hip-hop icons this Halloween.
The couple dressed up as Janet Jackson and Tupac Shakur’s characters Justice and Lucky in the 1993 romantic drama Poetic Justice. They even recreated the stars’ promotional photo shoot for the film.
“Poetic justice, put it in a song 🖤🎶✨,” Bailey, 23, captioned the images shared on her Instagram feed on Sunday, adding the hashtag #halloween2023.
The Little Mermaid star, 23 posed with her arms folded in the first photo of the carousel, which featured every shot that she and the 26-year-old rapper reenacted from the Poetic Justice shoot — including the collage!
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Bailey and DDG have been dating for more than a year. The pair went Instagram official in March 2022 when the Zooted Music record label founder posted on the R&B singer’s birthday.
Bailey recently opened up about how “love” was “a really big” source of inspiration for her upcoming debut solo album, which she will release before the end of this year.
“All musical inspiration really just comes from life experiences,” she told Cosmopolitan in last month’s cover story. “Love has been a really big one for me too, because that’s something I’m experiencing for the first time, and it’s like ‘whoa’ in your brain. It’s just fireworks, a spark for creativity.”
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“This has been a really beautiful, transformative time for me. I have all this new material to write about,” Bailey said. “It’s like, ‘What the heck did I just experience and go through?’ A whirlwind of amazingness. You never know what you’re capable of until you’re put through it. I was very creatively inspired, and then from there, I fell in love. And so I really just played with those themes in my music.”
“You know, you have puppy love experiences, you think that’s love. But this is my first deep, deep, real love,” added the Chloe x Halle performer.
In May, Bailey opened up to PEOPLE about how life has been since striking up a romance with DDG. When asked if she would call him a real Prince Charming, she said, “Yeah. I would say that.”
“I think the best thing about young love is that you’re able to continue to find yourself through this journey of loving somebody else,” the actress explained. “And you’re discovering new parts of yourself and maybe things that you didn’t notice before about your heart.”
Bailey continued, “I feel like things change when love gets more involved in your life. I have definitely discovered more within myself as a woman. It’s a really cool thing to go through, but a transformative experience.”
