She pipped Sia to win Best Female Video for Hold Up.
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In video footage posted on Instagram by an MTV employee, the Canadian rapper just catches his balance and recovers from the stumble with a little fancy footwork, as Rihanna laughs off his clumsiness. Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj remodeled the center stage into their personal workout area while performing their sensual duet “Side to Side”, Rihanna brought the house down with an authentic club performance of her upbeat hit “Work” and Beyoncé reenacted a sweet medley of hits from Lemonade that covered sour topics such as Jay Z’s rumored infidelity.
“You know what she was doing to me?”
Beyonce was also joined on the red carpet by other women whose sons’ deaths have led to the “Black Lives Matters” movement, including Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon Martin, Lezley McSpadden, mother of Michael Brown and Wanda Johnson, mother of Oscar Grant III. “She’s a living, breathing legend in our industry, ladies and gentleman, the recipient of the Michael Jackson Vanguard Award for 2016, Rihanna”. “All my adult life, I’ve looked up to her even though she’s younger than me”, said Drake.
He handed Rihanna, 28, her award and went in for a kiss.
Aside from the presentation of videos nominated for awards, the live performances also enhanced the audience’s perception of the artist’s music. The music video, which shows him looking frail in bed with bandaged eyes, was released just days before the icon’s Jan 10 death.
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However, instead of fulfilling ANY of my expectations, I instead sat back and watched my youth fucking DIE on stage. As Lochte－who is dealing with trouble after filing a false robbery report over an incident during the Rio Olympics－Fallon lied onstage about writing Justin Bieber’s Sorry and directing the clips nominated for video of the year.
