Kanye West hit the stage for a six-minute speech before introducing the video for his new song Fade.
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Despite the somewhat lacklustre response to Britney’s VMAs comeback, the singer appeared happy with her performance.
“First of all, I’d like to thank my handsome daughter and my incredible husband for all of their support”, said Beyonce, who walked the carpet with daughter Blue Ivy and the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner – who all appeared in Lemonade movie.
Afterwards, Drake and Rihanna hit the town together, so the jokes were surely blown out of proportion, but the internet still loves to frame Drake as a simp who bows to the heavenly RiRi. I’ma talk. Now, later tonight “Famous” might lose to Beyoncé, but I can’t be mad.
I will always have this love / hate relationship with him.
On “Famous”, West said, “For people to understand just how blessed we are”.
He then praised his wife Kim, with whom he has three-year-old daughter North and eight-month-old son Saint.
According to Elle magazine, though he did not make an 11-minute speech announcing a presidential bid like past year, he did have a lot to say.
“We are undeniably the influencers, the thought leaders”, he said, before screening what he called a “piece of my art”. If you think about it, last week, it was 22 people murdered in Chicago.
Wearing a glittering metallic yellow bodysuit and supported by backup dancers dressed in black and white, she performed her new single “Make Me…” with rapper G-Eazy.
The Video Vanguard award wasn’t her only win of the night – she also helped Calvin Harris claim the best male video title for their latest collaboration, “This Is What You Came For”. “Life could start to feel worthless”.
‘And my best friends, they never left me.
Moving on to discuss Taylor Swift in his apparent one man show, he touched upon gun violence and insisted he still “loves” everyone, even Taylor. Don’t compare yourself to Walt Disney.
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“Bro. Bro! Tonight, we here to have fun”. Puff Daddy, who presented the award, said Drake was stuck in traffic. “I mean, like, I put Ray J in it, bro”. I’m standing in front of the future, Chance the Rapper. “Stop shooting us” graffiti and Beyonce standing on top of a police auto led to widespread criticism of the star.
