“Lemonade” also features the mothers of three slain young African-American men whose mothers joined her in the audience – Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin.
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Beyonce closed her performance with “Formation”, for which she won a VMA for Video of the Year. I was introduced to her as a kid who played background music at the restaurant as people ate their dinner.
While presenting the award, Drake gushed about their lengthy relationship, as well as her musical achievements.
“She’s someone who I’ve loved since I was 22-years-old”. By Rihanna’s third performance of the night-the one with hip-hop tracks like “Needed Me” and “Bitch Better Have My Money”-her dancers could be seen on the side stairs of the main stage, joking around with one another and whipping their pony tails around like they were a just-discovered source of renewable energy”.
“My success started as my dream, but now my success is not my own. It’s my family, my fans, my country.it’s women, it’s black women”, she said. During his VMAs speech, Kanye West first announced that he was about to premiere a new music video and then touched on a variety of topics like gun violence, politics, Beyoncé and more.
Now, later tonight, “Famous” might lose to Beyonce but I can’t be mad, I’m always wishing for Beyonce to win. “Like people come to me like ‘damn, that’s right, take Taylor, ‘ like bro, I love all y’all”. Other artists such as Kanye West, who visited with everyone from Swizz Beats to Nick Jonas, and Chance the Rapper, who gave West a big hug when they met up in the celebrity pit, couldn’t sit still, wandering around the section to say hi to other artists.
But West said that Disney and the iconic late Apple chief were among fewer than 10 artistic heroes in his life – who also include himself.
He even shouted out ex-girlfriend Amber Rose.
Britney Spears returned to the VMA stage but faced accusations she lip-synced her performance of Make Me from her new album Glory.
Her best female video award for “Hold Up” was presented by …
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The night’s theme was clearly female empowerment and its best display came courtesy of Olympic gold medalists Aly Raisman, Madison Kocian, Laurie Hernandez and Simone Biles-the Final Five (minus Gabby Douglas, who is now recovering from a hospitalization)-as they met Queen B when giving her the Best Female Video Moonman. The Scottish producer sent a video message thanking MTV for the honour after missing the ceremony because he was performing in the UK.
