He traded basketball courts for runways and landed on the front pages of Vogue, but nothing Julez Smith has done in his budding modeling career has generated quite as much attention as one night at a hookah lounge.The footage surfaced just days after the 21-year-old model began appearing in Tommie Lee’s social media posts, and fans were already suspicious before TMZ got involved.Once that video dropped, the internet completely lost its mind, and the reason why goes far deeper than just an age gap. The deeper you dig into this story, the more complicated it gets.

For anyone who needs the backstory, Julez is the only child of Solange Knowles, who had him when she was just 17.Solange married his father, high school sweetheart Daniel Smith, and the young family briefly relocated to Moscow, Idaho, while Daniel attended college. The marriage did not last — Solange filed for divorce in 2006 before she had even turned 21.Julez grew up surrounded by fashion royalty. His grandmother, Tina Knowles, designed costumes for both Beyoncé and Solange, and watching his mother and aunt command every room they walked into left a lasting impression.He originally had his sights set on the NBA, but eventually traded hoop dreams for the runway, and the pivot paid off fast.