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- ♪ MTV ♪

- Around 40 years ago,

I came to New York City with nothing but $35

and a pair of dance shoes. I told the taxi driver

to take me to the center of it all.

He dropped me off in Time Square.

I was 19 and terrified. But it was just the first step.

I knew that someday with a lot of hard work,

I'd be known not just in New York City

but all over the world.

Forty years ago,

another underdog arrived in New York City

hoping to create something revolutionary.

An all-music channel appeared in the middle of the night

and called itself MTV.

We found each other and formed a bond that changed my life,

changed music and created a whole new art form.

That's why there's only one place to be tonight.

[Lyrics] Strike a pose

- Please welcome Madonna!

- And they said we wouldn't last.

- I love you, Madonna!

- But we're still here, motherfuckers.

Happy 40th, MTV.

Welcome to the "2021 MTV Video Music Awards."

- Justin Bieber and The Kid LAROI

in three, two, one.

♪ ♪

- [lyrics] I do the same thing I told you that I never would

I told you I'd change, even when I knew I never could

I know that I can't find nobody else as good as you

I need you to stay, need you to stay, hey

I get drunk, wake up, I'm wasted still

I realize the time that I wasted here

I feel like you can't feel the way I feel

Oh, I'll be ... up if you can't be right here

Oh, whoa, oh, whoa,

oh, whoa

Okay, I'll be ... if you can't be right there

I do the same thing I told you that I never would

I told you I'd change, even when I knew I never could

I know that I can't find nobody else as good as you

I need you to stay, need you to stay, hey

I do the same thing I told you that I never would

I told you I'd change, even when I knew I never could

I know that I can't find nobody else as good as you

I need you to stay, need you to stay, hey

- When I'm away from you, I miss your touch

You're the reason I believe in love

It's been difficult for me to trust

And I'm afraid that I'ma ... it up

Ain't no way that I can leave you stranded

'Cause you ain't ever left me empty-handed

And you know that I know that I can't live without you

So, baby, stay

- Oh, whoa, oh, whoa, oh, whoa

Okay, I'll be ... if you can't be right there

- I do the same thing I told you that I never would

I told you I'd change, even when I knew I never could

I know that I can't find nobody else as good as you

I need you to stay, need you to stay, hey

I do the same thing I told you that I never would

I told you I'd change, even when I knew

I never could

I know that I can't find nobody else as good as you

I need you to stay, need you to stay, hey

- Youngblood thinks there's always tomorrow

I miss your touch some nights when I'm hollow

I know you crossed a bridge that I can't follow

Since the love that you left is all that I get,

I want you to know

That if I can't get close to you,

I'll settle for the ghost of you

I miss you more than life, more than life

And if you can't be next to me, your memory is ecstasy

I miss you more than life, I miss you more than life

Youngblood thinks there's always tomorrow

I miss your touch on nights when I'm hollow

I know you crossed a bridge that I can't follow

Since the love that you left is all that I get,

I want you to know

That if I can't get close to you,

I'll settle for the ghost of you

I miss you more than life, more than life

And if you can't be next to me,

your memory is ecstasy

I miss you more than life,

I miss you more than life

So if I can't be close to you,

I'll settle for the ghost of you

I miss you more than life

And if you can't be next to me, your memory is ecstasy

I miss you more than life, I miss you more than life

- Olivia Rodrigo in three, two, one.

- Well, good for you,

I guess you moved on really easily

You found a new girl, and it only took a couple weeks

Remember when you said that you wanted to give me the world

And good for you, I guess that you've been working on yourself

I guess that therapist I found for you, she really helped

Now you can be a better man for your brand-new girl

Well, good for you, you look happy and healthy

Not me, if you ever cared to ask

Good for you, you're doing great out there

without me, baby

God, I wish that I could do that

I've lost my mind, I've spent the night

Crying on the floor of my bathroom

But you're so unaffected, I really don't get it

But I guess good for you

Well, good for you,

I guess you're getting everything you want

You bought a new car and your career's really taking off

It's like we never even happened

Baby, what the ... is up with that?

And good for you, it's like you never even met me

Remember when you swore to God I was the only

Person who ever got you

Well, screw that and screw you

You will never have to hurt the way you know that I do

Well, good for you, you look happy and healthy

Not me, if you ever cared to ask

Good for you, you're doing great out there

without me, baby

God, I wish that I could do that

I've lost my mind, I've spent the night

Crying on the floor of my bathroom

But you're so unaffected, I really don't get it

But I guess good for you

Maybe I'm too emotional

But your apathy is like a wound in salt

Maybe I'm too emotional

Or maybe you never cared at all

Maybe I'm too emotional

Your apathy is like a wound in salt

Maybe I'm too emotional

Or maybe you never cared at all

Well, good for you, you look happy and healthy, not me,

If you ever cared to ask Good for you,

You're doing great out there without me, baby

Like a damn sociopath

I've lost my mind, I've spent the night

Crying on the floor of my bathroom

But you're so unaffected, I really don't get it

But I guess good for you

Well, good for you,

I guess you moved on really easily

- It's the "2021 MTV Video Music Awards"

with performances by Justin Bieber,

The Kid LAROI, Olivia Rodrigo, Normani, Ed Sheeran,

Lil Nas X,

Twenty One Pilots, Ozuna, Jack Harlow, Camila Cabello,

Shawn Mendes, Kacey Musgraves,

Doja Cat,

Tainy, Alicia Keys, Travis Barker,

Machine Gun Kelly, Swae Lee, Chloe, Busta Rhymes

with a special performance by the 2021

VMA Global Icon Foo Fighters.

[Lyrics]

I'm a boss I'm a ..., I'm a boss

- Please welcome your host, Doja Cat!

[Lyrics] - I'm a ..., I'm a boss

I'm a ..., I'm a boss

I'm a ...,

I'm a boss, I'ma shine like gloss

- Brooklyn! Welcome to the "2021 MTV VMAs".

I'm here. I'm here.

And we also got some famous people here

and some famous people over there.

Give it up for them.

Listen, if you like famous people, keep watching.

This is the 40th birthday of MTV!

So for the 40th year,

you get to see more famous people and new ones!

We have more performances than ever before.

And I'm very excited.

Let's get this started and welcome a Video Vanguard winner

and legend, Jennifer Lopez!

- Think you gotta keep me iced, you don't

Think I'm gonna spend your cash, I won't

Even if you were broke

My love don't cost a thing

Think I wanna drive your Benz, I don't

If I wanna floss, I got my own

Even if you were broke

My love don't cost a thing

- Yes! MTV!

We're back here in New York! Happy 40th birthday, MTV!

Tonight, it's your party. I got to tell you,

it feels so good to be here in my hometown for the VMAs.

MTV has always been the place ...

- I love you, Jennifer! - I love you!

MTV has always been the place to deliver the music

and videos that define our generation.

We've sang together, danced together

and lived through moments that none of us will ever forget.

And you know tonight is not going to be any different.

So let's kick things off with our first award.

Here are the nominees for Song of the Year.

- Song of the year.

Dua Lipa, "Levitating." [Lyrics]

- Come on dance with me I'm levitating

- Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion, "WAP."

- Macaroni in a pot, that's some

- Olivia Rodrigo, "Drivers License"

[Lyrics] - I still see your face

- 24kgoldn featuring Iann Dior, "Mood."

[Lyrics] - Why you always in a mood

- BTS, "Dynamite."

Bruno Mars, Anderson.Paak in Silk Sonic,

"Leave the Door Open."

- And the VMA goes to Olivia Rodrigo, "Drivers License."

[Lyrics] - Stop signs

I still see your face

in the white cars, front yards

Can't drive past the places we used to go to

'Cause you know I still love you, babe

Ooh, ooh-ooh

- Oh, oh, my god. Whoa.

Oh, my gosh.

Hi. Oh, my gosh.

This is so insane.

Wow. Okay. First of all,

I just want to thank all of you guys, the fans.

This is so incredible. This is the most ...

This has been the most magical year of my life,

and it is all because of you guys, so thank you so much.

Thank you to the VMAs

and everyone who helped me make "Sour."

I want to dedicate this award to all of the other girls

who write songs on their bedroom floor.

There are a lot of people who will try to dim your light,

but speaking your mind and sharing your heart

are the most beautiful things in the world,

and here's to that. Thank you again.

- Coming up, it couple Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello

are back at the VMAs, and you ain't ready.

Kacey Musgraves makes her VMA debut,

and Twenty One Pilots make an epic return.

Plus, Billie Eilish is in the house to honor Foo Fighters

with the Global Icon Award.

- ♪ That Brooklyn bull-ish, we on it ♪

♪ Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can't you see? ♪

♪ Sometimes your words just hypnotize me ♪

- Oh, welcome back to the VMAs!

[cheering]

Yes, we are live in Brooklyn celebrating 40 years of MTV!

40 years, wow.

Let's keep it going for Hailey Bieber!

- ♪ You got me in love again ♪

♪ ♪

♪ You got me in love again ♪

♪ ♪

♪ You got me in love again ♪

♪ Again ♪

- Life can be challenging,

and this next artist writes music that reflects that.

She's vulnerable, honest, and brave.

Her fans across America are obsessed,

and MTV fans around the world are about to find out why.

With her first ever VMA performance,

my friend, Kacey Musgraves!

[cheers and applause]

- [vocalizing]

♪ ♪

[vocalizing]

♪ ♪

♪ Let me set the scene ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Two lovers ripped right at the seams ♪

♪ ♪

♪ They woke up from the perfect dream ♪

♪ ♪

♪ And then darkness came ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I signed the papers yesterday ♪

♪ You came and took your things away ♪

♪ And moved out of the home we made ♪

♪ I gave you back your name ♪

♪ ♪

♪ What have we done? ♪

♪ Did we fly too high ♪

♪ Just to get burned by the sun? ♪

♪ No one's to blame ♪

♪ 'Cause we called all the angels to save us ♪

♪ Called them by name ♪

♪ But I guess they got lost ♪

♪ Star-crossed ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Star-crossed, ah ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Ah ♪

♪ Star-crossed ♪

♪ Star-crossed, ah ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Star-crossed ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Star-crossed ♪

♪ Star-crossed ♪

♪ ♪

[cheers and applause]

- Twenty One Pilots in three, two, one.

- ♪ Slow down on Monday ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Not a sound on Wednesday ♪

♪ Might get loud, ooh, on Friday ♪

♪ But on Saturday, Saturday, Saturday ♪

♪ We paint the town ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Lose my sense a time or two ♪

♪ Weeks feel like days ♪

♪ Medicate in the afternoon ♪

♪ And I just want to know ♪

♪ Have you lost your footing, too? ♪

♪ I just pray that I'm not losing you ♪

♪ Catch me floating circles in my fishbowl ♪

♪ Keep things fresh ♪

♪ She said that I should change my clothes ♪

♪ I exaggerate ♪

♪ The life we used to know, oh, oh ♪

♪ ♪

both: ♪ Slow down on Monday ♪

♪ Not a sound on Wednesday ♪

- ♪ Yeah ♪

both: ♪ Might get loud on Friday ♪

♪ ♪

♪ But on Saturday ♪ - ♪ Oh, yeah ♪

both: ♪ Saturday, Saturday ♪ - Come on, Josh.

Bring me in. all: ♪ We paint the town ♪

- ♪ Ooh, you're good ♪

♪ These are my dancing shoes ♪ both: ♪ We paint the town ♪

- ♪ Ooh, you're good, thought I would dance with you ♪

both: ♪ Might get loud ♪

all: ♪ On Friday ♪

♪ But on Saturday, Saturday, Saturday ♪

♪ We paint the town, feeling great ♪

- ♪ Life moves slow on the ocean floor ♪

both: ♪ Feeling great ♪

- ♪ I can't feel the waves anymore ♪

♪ Did the tide forget to move? ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I just pray that I'm not losing you ♪

♪ Catch me floating circles in my fishbowl ♪

♪ Keep things fresh ♪

♪ She said that I should change my clothes ♪

♪ I exaggerate ♪

♪ The life we used to know ♪

♪ Oh, yeah ♪

Come on now! Whoo!

♪ ♪

Yeah!

♪ ♪

All right!

all: ♪ Slow down on Monday ♪ - Whoo!

My wife is pregnant. both: ♪ Not a sound ♪

- With our second child. both: ♪ On Wednesday ♪

I didn't want to text everybody,

so I thought I'd let you know right now.

both: ♪ But on Saturday, Saturday, Saturday ♪

- Now you know.

all: ♪ We paint the town ♪

- Oh, yeah!

♪ ♪

♪ You can go to bed now, you can go to bed now ♪

♪ Lay your head down now ♪

♪ Might get loud on Friday ♪

♪ ♪

♪ But on Saturday, Saturday, Saturday ♪

[cheers and applause]

["Girls Just Want to Have Fun" playing]

- Please welcome Cyndi Lauper.

[cheers and applause]

♪ ♪

- How you doing?

[cheers]

I won a Moon Person

at the very first VMAs in 1984.

Things are a little different now.

Yeah, girls still want to have fun.

But we also want to have funds,

equal pay,

control over our bodies.

You know, fundamental rights.

Okay, back to the awards.

- [chanting] - Thank you.

A great pop song stands the test of time.

Pop has always been a driving force of MTV,

and the winners of Best Pop

haven't just won an award.

They defined an era.

Here's this year's nominees!

- Best Pop.

- Okay.

Best Pop VMA goes to...

Justin Bieber

featuring Daniel Caesar, Giveon, "Peaches"!

I took my chick up to the North, yeah ♪

♪ I get my light right from the source, yeah ♪

♪ And I see you ♪

♪ The way I breathe you in ♪

♪ It's the texture of your skin ♪

♪ I wanna wrap my arms around you, baby, never let you go ♪

Damn.

Thank you so much to the VMAs.

Hey, can we give it up for Giveon, real quick?

[cheers and applause]

- Thank you so much for having me.

Justin called me randomly on FaceTime one day

and said, "Do you want to do a song?"

And I was like, "Yeah. Sure, let's do the song."

Shout-out to Daniel Caesar.

- Shout-out to my little brother and sister,

Jazzy and Jackson.

Shout-out to Alli. Shout-out to Bae.

Shout-out to my mom and dad, my grandparents.

I love you guys so much.

- ♪ Summer ♪

- Please welcome Madison Beer!

[cheers and applause]

- The VMAs have always been a showcase

for the biggest artists in the world.

And MTV PUSH has helped champion

the most exciting new talent starting to break through.

Tonight the music does not stop.

From the Extended Play Stage presented by Coors Light

with three nominations this year,

give it up for the incredible, the amazing,

SAINt JHN.

[cheers and applause]

["Sucks to be You" playing]

- [vocalizing]

- I'm happy to be here.

[vocalizing]

Y'all go up with me one time?

♪ Sucks to be you ♪

♪ 'Cause I would've loved you ♪

♪ I'd watch the whole world burn to see you dance ♪

♪ Runnin' through cartels and jumpin' through bombshells ♪

♪ I thought we would die growin' old, holdin' hands ♪

♪ It sucks to be you ♪

♪ 'Cause I would've loved you ♪

♪ I'd watch the whole world burn to see you dance ♪

♪ Jump over bombshells and runnin' through cartels ♪

♪ Thought we would die growin' old, holdin' hands ♪

♪ The story don't start all great ♪

♪ I'm a gorilla goin' ape ♪

♪ I'm just a street-- tryna make it to a milli' ♪

♪ In all the wrong ways ♪

♪ I'm runnin' all the wrong plays ♪

♪ They said I was born the wrong shade ♪

♪ I should've made it five years ago ♪

♪ For really, I was really born late ♪

♪ I used to carry sticks in my clothes ♪

♪ Carry work in my shoes ♪

♪ Below the poverty line ♪

♪ It's not exceptional news ♪

♪ Runnin' through this life until 21, 22 ♪

♪ Kyra helped me find a different point of view ♪

♪ Said she believed in me ♪

♪ Just keep on going ♪

♪ Just make sure when you get there ♪

♪ Leave the door open ♪

♪ I said you know who I am ♪

♪ It's a the kid from Brooklyn ♪

♪ I had ♪

♪ You left me ♪

♪ One two sucks to be you ♪

♪ 'Cause I would've loved you ♪

♪ I'd watch the whole world burn to see you dance ♪

♪ Runnin' through cartels and jumpin' through bombshells ♪

♪ I thought we would die growin' old, holdin' hands ♪

♪ It sucks to be you ♪

♪ 'Cause I would've loved you ♪

♪ I'd watch the whole world burn to see you dance ♪

♪ Jump over bombshells and runnin' through cartels ♪

♪ Thought we would die growin' old, holdin' hands ♪

♪ So I tell nobody 'bout my dreams, workin' at the hotel ♪

♪ 'Cause I don't think confessions over there ♪

- Might go well ♪

♪ And goin' back to the hood means that I of course failed ♪

♪ You either kill or you're roadkill so I say ♪

♪ Moved uptown, Kyra, you gave me a place to stay ♪

♪ Mama kicked me out back then ♪

♪ She did it ungraciously ♪

♪ Came home to all of the locks changed on New Year's Eve ♪

♪ I'm glad we're doin' better ♪

♪ We're both okay ♪

♪ I stayed there for like three years ♪

♪ Oh, bless her heart and soul ♪

♪ She's worth a pot of gold ♪

♪ She's worth a thousand years in G-Wagons on the road ♪

♪ I made a promise, a promise, I never betray those ♪

♪ She said she believed in me ♪

♪ Just keep on going ♪

♪ Just make sure when you get there ♪

♪ Leave the door open ♪

♪ I said you know who I am ♪

♪ A kid from Brooklyn ♪

♪ I had abandonment issues ♪

♪ You left me ♪

♪ One two sucks to be you ♪

♪ 'Cause I would've loved you ♪

♪ I'd watch the whole world burn to see you dance ♪

♪ Runnin' through cartels and jumpin' through bombshells ♪

♪ I thought we would die growin' old, holdin' hands ♪

♪ It sucks to be you ♪

♪ 'Cause I would've loved you ♪

♪ I'd watch the whole world burn to see you dance ♪

♪ Jump over bombshells and runnin' through cartels ♪

♪ Thought we would die growin' old, holdin' hands ♪

♪ It sucks to be you ♪

♪ I would have loved you ♪

♪ I'd watch the whole world burn to see you dance ♪

♪ Runnin' through bombshells jumpin' through cartels ♪

♪ Thought we would die growin' old, holdin' hands ♪

♪ It sucks to be you ♪

[cheers and applause]

- Coming up, the video that broke the Internet,

Lil Nas X and Jack Harlow bring "Industry Baby"

to the stage.

Conor McGregor crowns the Artist of the Year.

Kourtney Kardashian and Megan Fox cheer on their boys,

plus performances by Normani, Shawn Mendes,

Camila Cabello, Ozuna,

and Ed Sheeran hits the stage

in Brooklyn Bridge Park next.

- ♪ And we goin' crazy ♪

- Please welcome Rita Ora!

[Lyrics]

- New York, what's going on?

Right, here we go. Tonight, we celebrate 40 years of MTV.

Make some noise. Make some noise.

But there wouldn't be MTV without New York City.

So we're hitting every corner of the city tonight.

We are going hard. All right?

We've gotten to collaborate with the artists,

and everything for the first and foremost,

this artist for me is one of the most special artists

that I have the privilege of knowing

but also just the nicest human being.

All right? He just released his newest song, "Shivers,"

on Thursday night. I've had the privilege

of working with him on so many things,

and I'm sure his fans already know all the words

to the new song. All right.

Without no more, you ready? From Brooklyn Bridge Park,

please give it up for my friend, Ed Sheeran!

- [Lyrics] I took an arrow to the heart

I never kissed a mouth that tastes like yours

Strawberries and something more Ooh,

yeah, I want it all Lipstick on my guitar

Fill up the engine

We can drive real far

Go dancing underneath the stars

Ooh, yeah, I want it all

Mm, you got me feeling like

I want to be that guy

I want to kiss your eyes

I want to drink that smile

I want to feel like I

Like my soul is on fire

I want to stay up all day and all night

Yeah, you got me singing like

Ooh, I love it when you do it like that

And when you're close up

Give me the shivers

Oh, baby, you want to dance until the sunlight cracks

And when they say the party is over

Then we'll bring it right back

And we'll say

Ooh, I love it when you do it like that

And when you're close up

Give me the shivers

Oh, baby, you want to dance until the sunlight cracks

And when they say the party is over

Then we'll bring it right back

Into the car

On the back seat in the moonlit dark

Wrap me up between your legs and arms

Ooh, I can't get enough

You know you could tear me apart

Put me back together and take my heart

I never thought that I could love this hard

Ooh, I can't get enough

Mm, you got me feeling like I want to be that guy

I want to kiss your eyes

I want to drink that smile I want to feel like I

Like my soul is on fire

I want to stay up all day and all night

Yeah, you got me singing like

Ooh, I love it when you do it like that

And when you're close up

Give me the shivers

Oh, baby, you want to dance until the sunlight cracks

And when they say the party is over

Then we'll bring it right back And we'll say

Ooh, I love it when you do it like that

And when you're close up

Give me the shivers

Oh, baby, you want to dance until the sunlight cracks

And when they say the party is over

Then we'll bring it right back

Baby, you burn so hot

You make me shiver with the fire you got

This thing we started, I don't want it to stop

You know you make me shiver, er, er

Baby, you burn so hot

You make me shiver with the fire you got

This thing we started, I don't want it to stop

You know you make me shiver

Yeah, you got me singing like

Ooh, I love it when you do it like that

And when you're close up

Give me the shivers

Oh, baby, you want to dance until the sunlight cracks

And when they say the party is over

Then we'll bring it right back

Oh, no, and we'll say

Ooh, I love it when you do it like that

And when you're close up

Give me the shivers

Oh, baby, you want to dance until the sunlight cracks

And when they say the party is over

Then we'll bring it right back

Yeah.

- [Lyrics] Electric Oh, I can see it

- Please welcome Billy Porter.

- [Lyrics] If you believe it, then you can

There's no reason that this life can't be electric

- What's up, New York? What's up, New York?

Happy 40th birthday, MTV!

So when I was first coming up in this industry,

let me just say that the people were not ready for all this

Black boy joy, but, children, it's a new day,

and I am so thankful to have lived long enough

to witness it. So, Brooklyn,

get ready for the slayage we've all been living for!

Here is Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow!

- [Lyrics] Montero U

- Daytrip took it to 10, hey.

[Lyrics] Baby back, ay, couple racks, ay

Couple Grammys on him, couple plaques,

ay That's a fact, ay

Throw it back, ay

Throw it back, ay

And this one is for the champions

I ain't lost since I began, yeah

Funny how you said it was the end, yeah

Then I went, did it again, yeah - Let's go!

[Lyrics] I told you long ago on the road

I got what they waiting for

- Don't run from nothing, dawg

Get your soldiers - Tell them I ain't laying low

You was never really rooting for me anyway

When I'm back up at the top, I want to hear you say

- He don't run from nothing, dawg

- Get your soldiers

Tell them that the break is over

Uh, need to, uh

Need to get this album done

Need a couple number ones

Need a plaque on every song

Need me like one with Nicki now

Tell a rap ... I don't see ya, hah

I'm a pop ... like Bieber, hah

I don't ... But these ... like Madea

- Yeah, yeah

- Yeah Oh, let's do it

I ain't fall off I just ain't release my new

I blew up

Now everybody trying to sue me

You call me Nas, but the hood call me

- Doobie

- I ain't lost since I began, yeah

Funny how you said it was the end, yeah

Then I went, did it again, yeah

I told you long ago on the road

I got what they waiting for

- I got what they waiting for

- Don't run from nothing, dawg

Get your soldiers

- Tell them I ain't lowing low

- I ain't running from anywhere

- You was never really rooting for me anyway

When I'm back up at the top, I want to hear you say

- He don't run from nothing, dawg

- Get your soldiers

Tell them that the break is over

Yeah

- My track record so clean

They couldn't wait to just bash me

I must be getting too flashy

Y'all shouldn't have let the world gas me

It's too late because I'm here to stay

And these girls know that I'm nasty

I sent her back to her boyfriend

with my handprint on her

City talking, we taking notes

Tell them all to keep making posts

Wish he could, but he can't get close

OG so proud of me that he choking up while he making

I'm the type that you can't control,

said I would, then I made it so

I don't clear up rumors - Hey

- Where's y'all sense of humor

- Hey - I'm done making jokes

because they got old like baby boomers

Turned my haters to consumers

I make vets feel like they juniors

- Juniors

- Say your time is coming soon,

but just like Oklahoma

Mine is coming sooner

I'm just a late bloomer

I didn't peak in high school

I'm still out here getting cuter

All these social networks and computers

Got these people walking round like they ain't

- I told you I'm the industry baby

- Yeah

- Call me when you need

- Oh Oh

- Yeah - Call me when you want

Call me when you need

Call me in the morning

I'll be on the way

Call me when you want

Call me when you need

- Call me out by your name

I'll be on the way like

Call me by your name

And tell me you love me in private

Call me by your name

I do not care if you're lying

I want to see you, uh

I want to feel you, uh I'm in my, uh

Don't want to feel, uh

I want into my, uh Ooh

- We're just minutes away from a stage takeover

by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello.

Hip-hop's OG couldn't pick just one.

Busta Rhymes lays down his biggest hits of all time.

Machine Gun Kelly takes the stage for a fire performance

of "papercuts."

- ♪ He was a skater boy ♪

♪ She said, "See you later, boy" ♪

- Please welcome Avril Lavigne.

♪ He wasn't good enough for her ♪

♪ Now he's a superstar ♪

♪ Slamming on his guitar ♪

♪ Does your pretty face see what he's worth? ♪

♪ He was a skater boy ♪

♪ She said, "See you later, boy" ♪

Music gives us the power to feel,

to heal, and to connect.

The artists in this next category use their platforms

and their voices just to do that.

Here are the nominees for Video For Good.

- Video for Good.

- ♪ I was dancing with the devil ♪

- ♪ Out of control ♪

- ♪ Freedom for my brothers ♪

♪ Freedom 'cause they judge us ♪

♪ Freedom from the ♪

- ♪ Try not to abuse ♪

- ♪ You're missing every color ♪

- ♪ Black and white ♪

- ♪ Black man, Black man ♪

- ♪ Call me when you want ♪

- ♪ I'll be on the way, like ♪

- And the VMA goes to...

my girl, Billie Eilish, "Your Power"!

♪ ♪

- ♪ Try not to abuse your power ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I know we didn't choose to change ♪

♪ ♪

♪ You might not want to lose ♪

[cheers and applause]

- Whoa!

Hi. Thank you!

Alicia Keys just kissed me on the cheek.

I have a mark.

Thank you guys for this.

I love you so dearly. I really love you.

Thank you, Avril. I love you so much.

I know this is fan-voted, so you guys are all I owe to.

I love you so much. I love you.

And if I was going to say anything about this song,

I feel like I have--

was trying to write this song for a really long time.

And then, I feel like I finally did,

and it was so satisfying and freeing

and also really fucking sad.

I'm sorry!

And I just want to say

that we need to protect our young women at all costs,

and--for real! [cheers and applause]

And we also need to remember that we all have power,

and we have to remember to not abuse it.

So, thank you.

[cheers and applause]

- Give it up for Charli XCX!

- New York, make some noise!

[cheers and applause]

Right now, two of the year's biggest artists

are taking over the VMAs back to back.

Shawn Mendes is about to hit the stage

with special guest Tainy

for the debut performance of his smash hit

"Summer of Love. What?

[cheers and applause]

But first, I've been lucky enough to collaborate

with this next artist many times.

She's singing her spicy, sexy, hot new single "Don't Go Yet"

from her upcoming album "Familia."

Give it up to iconic legend

and my girl, Camila Cabello!

Come on!

["Don't Go Yet" playing]

♪ ♪

- ♪ I'll replay this moment for months ♪

♪ Alone in my head, waiting for it to come ♪

♪ I wrote all your lines, and the script's in my mind ♪

♪ And I hope that you follow it for once ♪

♪ ♪

♪ I imagine myself in satin ♪

♪ The room was platinum and gold ♪

♪ Dance and catch it right ♪

♪ You'll be mesmerized, oh ♪

♪ We find a corner, then your hand's in my hair ♪

♪ Finally we're here, so I ♪

♪ Say you got a flight, need an early night, no ♪

♪ Don't go yet ♪

♪ Oh, yeah, don't go yet ♪

♪ Don't go yet ♪

♪ Oh, yeah, don't go yet ♪

♪ Don't go yet ♪

♪ Oh, yeah, don't go yet ♪

♪ Don't go yet ♪

♪ What you leaving for when my night is yours? ♪

♪ Just a little more, don't go yet ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Ay, baby, don't go yet ♪

♪ 'Cause I wore this dress for a little drama in the bed ♪

♪ I bet that you think that you know, but you don't ♪

♪ Baby, come to mama, I get ♪

♪ I get what I want, when I want ♪

♪ And I get it how I want to, want to ♪

♪ And I want you, baby, got to get you, baby ♪

♪ We find a corner, then your hand's in my hair ♪

♪ Finally we're here, so I ♪

♪ Say you got a flight, need an early night, no ♪

♪ Don't go yet ♪

♪ Oh, yeah, don't go yet ♪

♪ Don't go yet ♪

♪ Oh, yeah, don't go yet ♪

♪ Don't go yet ♪

♪ Oh, yeah, don't go yet ♪

♪ Don't go yet ♪

♪ What you leaving for when my night is yours?

♪ Just a little more, don't go yet ♪

New York, let me hear you!

♪ La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la ♪ - ♪ Don't go yet ♪

- ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la-la ♪

- ♪ Don't go yet ♪ - What's up, VMAs?

- ♪ Oh-no-no, don't leave yet ♪

♪ No te vayas, quédate ♪ - Dale!

- ♪ Oh-no-no, don't leave yet ♪

♪ No te vayas, quédate ♪

♪ Oh-no-no, don't leave yet ♪ - ♪ Stay a little longer ♪

- ♪ No te vayas, quédate ♪

- ♪ Know you really want to stay a little longer ♪

- ♪ No they vayas, quédate ♪ - Whoo!

- ♪ Oh, yeah, don't go yet ♪ - Ay!

- ♪ Don't go yet ♪ - ♪ Don't go yet ♪

- ♪ Oh, yeah, don't go yet ♪ - Ay!

- ♪ Don't go yet ♪ - ♪ Don't go yet, yeah ♪

- ♪ Oh, yeah, don't go yet ♪

♪ Don't go yet ♪

- ♪ What you leaving for when my night is yours? ♪

♪ Just a little more ♪ - ♪ Don't go yet ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Oh, yeah, don't go yet ♪

♪ Don't go yet ♪

♪ ♪

- ♪ No ♪

- Oh, yeah, don't go yet ♪

♪ Don't go yet ♪ - ♪ Don't go ♪

- ♪ Oh, yeah, don't go yet ♪ - ♪ Yeah ♪

- ♪ Don't go yet ♪ - ♪ Don't go yet ♪

♪ Oh, yeah, don't go yet ♪

- ♪ Don't go yet ♪ - ♪ Oh ♪

- ♪ What you leaving for when my night is yours?

♪ Just a little more ♪

- ♪ Oh, yeah ♪ - ♪ My night is yours ♪

- ♪ Don't go yet ♪ - ♪ Yours, yours ♪

♪ What you leaving for, my night is yours ♪

♪ Just a little more ♪ - ♪ Don't go yet ♪

[cheers and applause]

- Give it up for my guy, Shawn Mendes!

[cheers and applause]

- ♪ It was the summer of love ♪

♪ ♪

♪ A delicate daydream ♪

♪ And for a couple of months ♪

♪ ♪

♪ It felt like we were 18 ♪

♪ It was the summer of love ♪

♪ La-love ♪

♪ La-love, yeah ♪

♪ It was the summer of ♪

♪ La-love, la-love ♪

♪ ♪

♪ My kisses on your body felt like heaven ♪

♪ We were taking it slow ♪

♪ ♪

♪ We're tangled in the sheets until the evening ♪

♪ There was nowhere to go, yeah ♪

♪ We were in a daze learning ♪

♪ Each other's shapes, tracing ♪

♪ Shadows of rain down your back, oh-oh ♪

♪ Kisses on your body in my memory, baby ♪

♪ Nothing comes close ♪

♪ It was the summer of love ♪

VMAs, how you doing? [cheers and applause]

♪ A delicate daydream ♪

♪ And for a couple of months ♪

♪ It felt like we were 18 ♪

♪ Yeah, it was the summer of love ♪

♪ La-love, la-love ♪

♪ Yeah, it was the summer of ♪

♪ La-love, la-love ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Meditation and tequila ♪

♪ Calling you my señorita ♪

♪ Didn't know how much I need you ♪

♪ Hate it when I have to leave you ♪

♪ I've been taking mental pictures ♪

♪ For when I miss you in the winter ♪

♪ Staying up until the sunrise ♪

♪ Praying it won't be the last time ♪

♪ It was the summer of love ♪

♪ ♪

♪ A delicate daydream ♪

♪ And for a couple of months ♪

♪ ♪

♪ It felt like we were 18 ♪

♪ Yeah, it was the summer of love ♪

♪ La-love ♪

♪ La-love, yeah ♪

♪ It was the summer of ♪

♪ La-love ♪

♪ La-love, yeah ♪

♪ Kisses on your body feel like heaven ♪

♪ We were taking it slow, yeah ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Tangled in the sheets until the evening ♪

♪ there was nowhere to go, no ♪

♪ It was the summer of love ♪

♪ You were my summer of love ♪

♪ A delicate daydream ♪

♪ ♪

♪ And for a couple of months, yeah ♪

♪ It felt like we were 18 ♪

♪ Yeah, it was the summer of ♪

♪ La-love, la-love ♪

♪ Yeah, it was the summer of ♪

♪ La-love, la-love ♪

♪ ♪

♪ It was the summer of ♪

♪ La-love, la-love ♪

♪ Yeah, it was the summer of ♪

La-love, yeah

♪ ♪

♪ It was the summer of ♪

Thank you so much.

[cheers and applause]

- ♪ Aunque sé que no debo ♪

- Please welcome Leslie Grace!

- ♪ Pensar en ti, bebé, pero cuando bebo ♪

♪ Me viene tu nombre, tu cara ♪

- Hello, Brooklyn!

How we doing? [cheers and applause]

MTV has been connecting new artists with fans

all over the world for 40 years,

and "MTV PUSH" has helped shine a spotlight on massive stars,

including our host tonight, Doja Cat.

[cheers and applause]

Tonight, we're keeping that going on the VMAs.

You with it?

Right now, I am so excited to introduce

a PUSH Performance of the Year nominee herself.

On the Extended Play Stage,

give it up for Latto! Whoo!

- VMAs, Big Latto, "Big Energy"!

Let me hear ya!

["Big Energy" playing]

What, what, let's go!

- ♪ Hey, daddy ♪

♪ When you gon stop playin? ♪

- Let's do it!

- ♪ Bad chick, I could be your fantasy ♪

♪ I can tell you got big, big energy ♪

♪ Ain't too many of 'em that can handle me ♪

♪ But I might let you try it after Hennessey ♪

♪ Make them slang to this thing like a melody ♪

♪ And if your girl ain't right, I got it real ♪

♪ It ain't too many of 'em that can handle me ♪

♪ Bad chick, I could be your fantasy ♪

- What you got? What you got?

- ♪ Got that big, big energy ♪

- Big, big energy. She got that...

- ♪ Got that big, big energy ♪

♪ Big, big energy ♪ - Whoa!

- ♪ Got that big, big energy ♪

- She got that big, big energy. Say.

- ♪ Got that big, big energy ♪

♪ Big, big energy ♪

♪ ♪

- ♪ You're under the bright light ♪

- Coming up, TikTok ain't ready for this!

Chloe slays her very first VMA performance.

Brooklyn, you ready to rock?

Tonight's global icons, Foo Fighters, take the stage.

It's Planet Her, and we're all just living in it!

Our host Doja Cat, defies gravity.

And did y'all ask for the GOAT?

Simone Biles is on stage next.

- Please welcome Simone Biles.

[cheers and applause]

- This next performer is about to dazzle us

with her high-flying acrobatics,

flawless technique,

and beautiful artistic execution.

I'd say she's Team USA, but I think she prefers

Planet Her.

Please give it up for Doja Cat.

- ♪ Since you've been like this ♪

♪ Baby, I don't really wanna be in like this ♪

♪ Ever since you've been like this ♪

♪ Baby, I don't really wanna be in like this ♪

- ♪ See you've been changing, baby ♪

♪ In good ways and bad ways ♪

♪ Can't say what I say ♪

♪ It's far too late ♪

♪ And now that you've made me baby ♪

♪ Made me too nervous ♪

♪ Crying and disheartened ♪

♪ And I gotta tell you why ♪

♪ Since you've been like this ♪

♪ Baby I don't really wanna be in like this ♪

♪ ♪

♪ And since you've been like this ♪

♪ Baby I don't really wanna be in like this ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Who is fronting, babe? ♪

♪ We don't have fun these days ♪

♪ It's more than complicated, I ♪

- ♪ Couldn't say you wasn't with it ♪

- ♪ Told me to stop my mind ♪

♪ When you gave up, I tried ♪

♪ I gave you all this time ♪

♪ Gave you my everything ♪

♪ Said I can do this all night, baby ♪

♪ Said I was acting out of line, maybe ♪

♪ Can't put my trauma to the side ♪

♪ When you told me I was lying ♪

♪ Had me feeling like I died, baby ♪

♪ I seen a grown man cry, baby ♪

♪ Just see you do it ain't special, no ♪

♪ Wonder when I ain't there ♪

♪ You've been saying ♪

♪ Talking about how I sexed you up ♪

♪ And I know it might mess you up ♪

♪ Hating me ain't gonna get you love ♪

♪ Ain't nobody gonna set you up ♪

♪ I ain't even gonna sweat you, love ♪

♪ And we'll never be friends like this ♪

♪ God couldn't forgive like this ♪

♪ Why I really went in like this ♪

♪ Thank God I ain't been like this, yeah ♪

♪ Since you've been like this ♪

♪ I bless your heart ♪

♪ But I ♪

♪ I can't take no more ♪

♪ I ♪

♪ Bless your heart ♪

♪ But I ♪

♪ I can't take no more ♪

♪ ♪

I got a man, but I want you

I got a man, but I want you

Makin' me think 'bout someone new

You know I got so much to say

I try to hide it in my face

And it don't work, you see through

That I just wanna get with you

And you're right

You right, I Got my guy

But I, I

Can't help it, I want you

Said you right,

I Got my guy

But I, I

Can't help it, I want you

Yeah, it ain't no fair to you

I ain't too scared to shoot, ah

But I got a man at home

And we like family too

But I got needs and wants Ruins my attitude

... my self control

Wanna take care of you, and

yeah, just for the night

Do I wanna lose all that I have

You could be a muse and help me catch

But I just need you to come break my back

If you wanna attack, it's just that, that's just life

I'ma be real, you just my type

I got a man, but he ain't in sight right now, so

I got a man, but I want you I got a man, but I want you

And it's just nerves, it's just

Makin' me think 'bout someone new

You know I got so much to say I try to hide it in my face

And it don't work, you see through

That I just want get wit' you And you're right

And you're right

You right,

I Got my guy

But I, I

Can't help it, I want you

Said you right,

I Got my guy

But I, I

Can't help it, I want you

Please welcome MMA star Conor McGregor!

- [Lyrics] No sleep 'til Brooklyn Brooklyn

No sleep 'til Brooklyn Brooklyn

No sleep 'til Brooklyn

- New York is back and so is the Mac.

And 2022 will be our greatest year yet.

Artist of the Year, what an honor!

This is about more than a single song, album or video.

It's about the total impact these nominees made

on our lives and culture.

It takes a mega talent and extreme dedication

to become one of the most influential forces

on the planet, take it from me. Now, check out the nominees.

- Artist of the Year. Ariana Grande.

[Lyrics] - Can we stay up all night

Love me 'til the daylight

- Olivia Rodrigo

[Lyrics] - When she's with you

- Justin Bieber.

[Lyrics]

- If it's not you, it's not anyone

- Taylor Swift.

- I'm begging for you to take my hand

Wreck my plans, that's my man

- Doja Cat.

- [Lyrics] Whoa, oh, oh

Baby, I need to know, oh

- Megan Thee Stallion [Lyrics]

- Body-ody- ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody

- And the VMA goes to Justin Bieber!

[Lyrics] - If it's not you,

it's not anyone

Gotta tell you

Looking back on my life

You're the only good I've ever done

Yeah, you, if it's not you

- Wow.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

So I appreciate it.

I appreciate it. I appreciate it.

As we know, there's so much going on in the world

as we speak.

I know you guys have probably heard it a lot,

but we are in unprecedented times right now

with this COVID thing that's happening.

It's not a COVID thing, but it's a big deal, you know?

And I just wanted to say that music

is such an amazing opportunity

and an amazing outlet to be able to reach people

and to be able to bring us all together,

and that's why we're here right now, right?

We're all here together, you know?

And we got a lot more in common than we don't,

and I look around here,

and I see so many beautiful faces, and ...

- I love you!

- I love you!

- I really do believe the best is yet to come,

so I want to say thank you guys so much.

I look over here, and I see my beautiful wife,

and I just want to say I love you so much.

Travis Scott, man, you inspire me so much.

Thank you for being you.

Conor, we're going to get them next time, my boy.

Let's go. Hey, thank you guys.

- Please welcome Halle Bailey.

[Lyrics] - [Indistinct]

- It's incredible to watch your sister and collaborator

find her voice.

This year, she has stepped into her own artistry,

sharing a message of self-expression and self-love,

and I am so, so, so proud of her.

I love you, sis.

Here she is, in her first solo performance at the VMAs, Chloe!

[Lyrics] - Chloe

Chloe

Someone's calling, no reply

Nightshade's falling, hear him sigh

Chloe

Chloe

Booty so big, work, Lord,

have mercy

Booty so big, work, Lord, have mercy

Why I keep bossing like I do

Why I keep flossing like I do

... costing like it do

All this ass up in my jeans

You can't get up in between

Get a piece of me

I can teach you a couple things

Lord, have mercy, work

Boy, you lookin' at me like I ain't give you no choice

I count to three, bet you be on your knees

You wrapped 'round my hand like Cartier, oh

You can't get this thickness out of your

He say he like that Laffy Taffy

He so goofy, call me

He go stupid, he go daffy

Introduce me to his

He can never live without me

I'm so real, I never

If he got it like that, like that

I can take it, take it there

'Cause my Booty so big,

Work, Lord, have mercy

Why I keep bossing like I do

Why I keep flossing like I do

Why keep costing like it do

My Jeans

Between Tryna get a piece of me

I can teach you a couple things

Lord, have mercy, work

Bossing like I do

Why I keep flossing like I do

Why I keep saucing like I

Why keep costing like it do

You can't get up in between, why

Tryna to get a piece of me

I can teach you a couple things

How to surf it, man, how to work it, man

It's on purpose, I'm doin' it big

Body language like speaking Spanglish

I'll educate ya how to do this

Temporary, that's never rare-y

I'm necessary, yeah, I am that

Can't get this thickness out of your mind

Booty so big

'Cause my Booty so big

Booty so big, work, work

Lord, have mercy, work

Work it, work it

Lord, have mercy

Booty so big, work

Booty so big, work

Booty so big, work

Booty so big, work

Booty so big, work

Booty so big, work

Booty so big, work

Booty so big, work

Booty so big, work

Lord, have mercy

I do, I do

Why it keep costing like it do, babe

My jeans Get up, get up, get up

Tryna get [Indistinct] Teach you a couple things

Work it, work it

I do, I do

Work it, work it

Costing like it do, ooh, ooh

Work it, work

Get up in these jeans, baby

- And the party doesn't stop.

The VMAs and Coors Light are keeping the music going

all night.

Back on the extended play stage,

give it up for SAINt JHN.

- Hey, on a night like tonight in Brooklyn.

[Lyrics] Hey hey hey hey

Hey Hey

Hey-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah

Only love a really

really ever knew was trap, I trap, I trap

Really came up from the mat, no turning back

Only love a really really ever knew was trap,

that's fact, that's fact

Really came up from the mat, no turning back

Only love a really really ever knew was trap

She do licks

She the one I forget

She do work, she do oh

She do most, make a list

This the life, don't forget

Sober nights, make it lit

She the one, you the one

I'm the one, what a trick

I ain't never tellin' lies

Cross my heart and hope to die

If it's real, it's real forever

May we never testify

Put the pedal to the floor

Look the devil in the eyes

If you tell me that you love me

Promise not to change your mind

We lost sleepin' in the middle tonight

With the bass turned on, will you turn on the lights

Wish you furs for the winter, wish you champagne on ice

Middle fingers to the police, woo, woo

Only love a really really ever knew was trap,

I trap, I trap

Really came up from the mat, no turning back

Only love a really really ever knew was trap

that's fact, that's fact

Really came up from the mat, no turning back

Only love a really really ever knew was

[cheers and applause]

- Coming up Machine Gun Kelly takes the stage

for a fire performance of "papercuts."

Normani shows her wild side with jaw-dropping performance

you cannot miss.

Plus, performances by Foo Fighters,

Alicia Keys, and Busta Rhymes.

- ♪ Oh baby you ♪

- Please welcome Wyclef Jean.

- ♪ But you say he's just a friend ♪

- [Indistinct].

Brooklyn!

Biggie Smalls!

Y'all make some noise for the people in Haiti real quick.

I need them to hear this. Make some noise for them.

Thank you. I appreciate that.

Tonight, we celebrate 40 years of MTV,

40 years of incredible music

and the artists who paved the way among them,

Charlie Watts, Dusty Hill and New York's own hip-hop icons,

Biz Markie, Shock G.

Shout-out to Swiss, man, and ...

Yes. Before I say one of my favorite rappers, DMX!

They all will be clearly missed.

The nominees for the Best Hip Hop

represents the best of the year

and stand on the shoulders of the all-time greats.

Let's get into it.

- Best Hip Hop, Travis Scott featuring Young Thug

and M.I.A., "Franchise."

Polo G, "Rapstar." [Lyrics]

Thinking about the old me I swear I miss you dearly

- Cardi B featuring Megan

Thee Stallion, "WAP." [Lyrics]

Bought a phone just for pictures of this

- Lil Baby featuring Megan Thee Stallion,

"On Me [Remix]."

[Lyrics] COVID-19, ugh

- Moneybagg Yo, "Said Sum." [Lyrics]

Came up like Giannis, I get bigger bucks

- Drake featuring Lil Durk, "Laugh Now Cry Later."

- [speaking language]

Translation, I'm about to open

the package now.

Okay! The winner is Travis Scott!

[Lyrics] Yup, in my white tee, yeah

Call up Hype Williams for the hype, please, uh

They going to wipe you before you wipe me

Unboxing my checks, not my Nikes

- Yeah

- Cactis, not no iced tea

- Yo, this is ... I love y'all, New York!

I first want to thank God, my mom, Stormi,

all the amazing fans out there. I love y'all so much.

We couldn't do it without y'all.

To my label, Cactus Jack,

Epic Records, I love y'all so much.

Before I go, I just want to tell y'all love

is the biggest thing that we could ever hold.

Spread love, and everything will be okay.

Everybody to your left and to your right is to your friends.

I love y'all so much!

- Please welcome Ciara.

- Hey, VMAs!

One thing I know is you cannot rush perfection,

and nobody knows that better than this next artist.

She sweats over every last detail

and always puts in the work in the studio

and on the stage, an icon in the making.

VMAs, you're about to witness the power of my girl, Normani!

- I'm ready to pull up on you

I'm ready to do what I do

Baby, what you want to do

Shoot your shot because I'm bulletproof

Load it up and doo-doo-doo

Baby, what you want to do

I'm ready to pull up on you

I'm ready to do what I do

This type of ... got you wilding

Last-minute trips to the islands

Drip, drip, drip when you

Fit, fit, fit, baby, right in

Don't hesitate when you

In it because you know I like it

Baking up a cake for you

Sweet, baby, like it when you

- Bite it - We can't just keep

- Talking about it We think too

- Often about it

- We can't just be

- Cautious about it

- I want to get wild

Take me for a ride, boy

Show me your wild side, boy

Know it's been a while, boy

I want to get wild

I want to drive you crazy

Pull up, baby

- Like oopsie-daisy

- Ain't no if, and, buts and maybes

Don't be laid up in that

- Lazy

- I need you to roll up in that

- Skating

- Baby, ain't no hold up I'm that

- Waiting - Doo-doo-doo

- Shoot your shot I'm impatient

This type of ... got you wilding

Last-minute trips to the islands

- Drip, drip, drip when you - Ooh, ooh

- Fit, fit, fit, baby, right in

Don't hesitate when you

In it because you know I like it

Baking up a cake for you

Sweet, baby, like it when you

We can't just keep talking about it

We think too often about it

We can't just keep talking about it

I want to get wild

Take me for a ride, boy

Show me your wild side, boy

Know it's been a while, boy

I want to get wild

Oh, yeah, you know you're right on time

Baby, bring it to me how I like

Know I need it more than just one time,

two times, a few times

You know that I need it from you, baby, right on time

Baby, bring it to me how I like

You're putting in overtime, overdrive to you

Whoa

- We can't just keep talking about it

- We can't

- We just keep cautious about it

- No - I want to get wild

Take me for a ride

Show me your wild side

- It's been a while, boy

- I want to get wild

- [Indistinct]

- Ooh, yeah

- [Indistinct]

- Ooh, ooh, ooh

- [Indistinct]

- Oh

Ooh, I want to get wild

- VMAs, how y'all feeling?

- I want to get wild

- And now from the Extended Play Stage, welcome back Latto.

- Big Latto, "Queen of da Souf,"

let me talk to my freaky girls!

[Lyrics]

I'm a freek-a-leek

But I can't let a broke ... beat

- Let's go - Know we from the streets

So when you see me, boy, don't speak

- Say

- Put them straight to sleep I don't sell

- But this ain't cheek - She got that

- Abracadabra, got rappers and trappers

Yeah, I got some tricks up my sleeve

- It go like - Drama

I'm with the You want a problem

Mo want to hit Old

Trick Ready to snitch

Simp

- Simp, simp, simp, simp - Weak-ass

- My DM is flooded My AP is flooded

Still wet his ... out with the stick

- Let's go

- Don't give a I'm running it up

- Big Latto! - Big Latto, I pop my

Because I'm a very freaky girl

- Girl - Get it from my mama

I'm not with the games - It go like

- I'm with all the drama - And she go

- Make him give me, give me in the front seat of the Hummer

- There she go

- Make him give me, give me in the front seat of the Hummer

Because I'm a very freaky girl

- And she get it - Get it from my mama

- Guess what though

I'm not with the games - Guess what

- I'm with all the drama - And she go

- Make him give me, give me in the front seat of the Hummer

- So how you lookin' - Make him give me, give me

in the front seat of the Hummer - Say she look

- Good girl - Big Latto

- I'm fine-fine

- Make him give me--, make him give me Einstein

I walked in the meetin' label, seen a dollar sign

It took a couple Ms for me to sign the dotted line

- Slim waist with a booty

This--dumb if he lose me

- This boy think I love him

I'm Big Latto not Suzie

Film him eatin' this whoa

I swear my life is a movie

Walked on nasty with Boosie

And now I got one with Gucci

Because I'm a very freaky girl

- And she - Get it from my mama

- What's up? - I'm not with the games

- I'm with all the drama

- Make him give me, give me in the front seat of the Hummer

Make him give me, give me in the front seat of the Hummer

Because I'm a very freaky girl

- And she - Get it from my mama

- Guess what - I'm not with the games

- I'm with all the drama

- Make him give me, give me in the front seat of the Hummer

- There she go

- Make him give me, give me in the front seat of the Hummer

[cheers and applause]

- Coming up, Billie Eileish honors her music heroes

Foo Fighters with the Global Icon Award.

Mi Gente. Latin superstar Ozuna brings the dance party,

and later hip-hop icon Busta Rhymes

brings the house down with a career-defining performance.

- The biggest superstars in music are battling it out

for the most coveted award of the night.

Who will take home the VMA for Video of the Year?

Will Cardi and Megan drown the competition with "WAP"?

Or can DJ Khaled and Drake pop off with a win

for "Popstar" with Justin Bieber?"

Doja Cat and SZA can almost taste the win

with "Kiss Me More."

Will Ed Sheeran's "Bad Habits" pay off?

Will "Montero Call Me by Your Name"?

bring Lil Nas X

the ultimate title,

or will last year's winner, The Weeknd,

make it rain with "Save Your Tears"?

Find out who takes home Video of the Year

when the MTV Video Music Awards continue.

- [lyrics] They say I just got a buck

- Get into it, yuh

- Pop out with a truck

- Get into it, yuh - If you go to church

- Get into it, yuh - If she ain't got a

- Welcome back...

To the VMAs, you guys!

I remember watching some of these VMA shows

with iconic moments

like Britney when she danced with a snake,

a whole snake. Like, what?

And, you know, Kanye needing attention

and Gaga wore meat,

and Beyoncé was like, "Hey, I'm pregnant."

And I--I mean, I hope my performance

was just as fun to watch.

And...

Thank you...

You guys...

crowd: Doja! Doja! Doja! - Listen.

Nah!

Please. Thank you guys so much.

Please welcome the one and only Fat Joe!

- ♪ Nothing can stop me I'm all the way up ♪

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This next performer

is one of today's biggest global superstars.

The Latin hit maker has made

more billion-view music videos

than any other artist.

His music has landed him four Guinness World Records.

Mi gente Latino.

Make some noise

His new single, "La Funka."

My brother, Ozuna!

[Lyrics] - Oh oh oh oh

Come on, VMAs.

Ozuna

Alguien que me diga como se tropieza

Con un buen amor cual es la destreza

Si estoy sintiendo to' los síntomas que

alguien me explique esa Que

nos paso Si me duele la cabeza esa eh

Cuando veo que no regresa esa eh

Si me enchulo si me besa esa eh

Si me hace mover los pies aunque no bailo bien

Yo creo que esa eh

Como se si yo me estoy enamorando

Si me siento arrebatao sin estar fumando

En un viaje, me siento en un viaje,

Cuando la veo caminando

De corazón frio como un iglú

Solamente gana con su actitud

Es de buena vibra no quiere fronte

Quiere bailar hasta que salga la luz

Ella se monta en el yate escuchando a mana

Quiere bailarlo allá en samana

Aunque no bebe ella fuma na mah

Pasate el limbo bebe esta hackea

Como se si yo me estoy enamorando

Si me siento arrebatao sin estar fumando

En un viaje, me siento en un viaje,

cuando la veo caminando

Alguien que me diga como se tropieza

Con un buen amor cual es la destreza

Si estoy sintiendo to' los síntomas

que alguien me explique esa

Que nos paso.

Si me duele la cabeza esa eh

Cuando veo que no regresa esa eh

Si me enchulo si me besa esa eh

Si me hace mover los pies aunque no bailo bien

Yo creo que esa eh

- Come on! come on!

Yo creo que esa eeeeee eh

Uuoo oh oh oh eh eh eh

Uuoo oh oh oh eh eh eh

Yo creo que esa eh

Yo creo que esa eeeee, uooo oh ohh,

- Come on, VMAs 2021!

Puerto Rico, Republica Dominicana, come on!

[Lyrics]

Yo creo que esa eh

Yo creo que esa eh

Como se si yo me estoy enamorando

Si me siento arrebatao sin estar fumando

En un viaje, me siento en un viaje

Cuando la veo caminando

Si me duele la cabeza esa eh

Cuando veo que no regresa esa eh

Si me enchulo si me besa esa eh

Si me hace mover los pies aunque no bailo bien

Yo creo que esa eh

- Come on! Yo creo que esa eh

- VMAs 2021

- Yo creo que esa eh

- Come on! Come on, VMAs!

- Uuoo oh oh oh eh eh eh

Uuoo oh oh oh eh eh eh

Uuoo oh oh oh eh eh eh

- Ozuna, Puerto Rico, Republica Dominicana!

- Uuoo oh oh oh eh eh eh

- Give it up for Ashanti and Ja Rule!

- New York!

- Hey! Whoo!

New York City.

Hey! I love you too.

- New York City, what's happening?

- [laughs]

It's amazing out here.

All right, now, we know better than anybody

what goes into a good collab.

- We sure do. It's a lot of hard work,

but when it clicks, it just clicks,

like when we did "Always On Top"...

- Uh-huh. - "Down For You"...

- Uh-huh. - "Mesmerize," and more.

- Exactly.

- [indistinct cheer] - Thank you, baby.

Look, when you know, you know,

and of course, the music speaks for itself.

- Ashanti, I love you, babe!

- I love you too, baby!

Here are the nominees for the Best Collaboration.

- Best Collaboration.

Justin Bieber featuring Daniel Ceasa

and Giveon, "Peaches."

Drake featuring Lil Durk, "Laugh Now Cry Later."

Miley Cyrus featuring Dua Lipa, "Prisoner."

24kgoldn featuring

Iann Dior, "Mood." [Lyrics]

I ain't trying to tell you what to do

But try to play it

- Doja Cat featuring SZA, "Kiss Me More."

[Lyrics] Because I like the way you move

[Lyrics] I'm talking

- Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion, "WAP."

[Lyrics] Macaroni in a pot

That's some

- And the VMA goes to

Doja Cat featuring SZA,

"Kiss Me More." [Lyrics]

Kiss me more We're so young, boy,

we ain't got nothing to lose, uh-oh

- It's just principle

Baby, hold me

'cause I like the way you move, uh-oh

Boy, you write your name, I can do the same

Oh, I love the taste, la-la-la, la-la

- Woo!

- Oh, my god. - Hey!

- Oh, my god, thank you, first and foremost.

Thank you to SZA!

Everybody, give it up for SZA! She is amazing!

- Woo! - Give it up for Doja Cat!

- Woo!

and, God, where to I start?

This is always left field for everybody, isn't it?

I want to thank everyone, to Lydia Gordon, my management,

my glam, Sal, I want to ...

Jay, Ernesto, everybody, Ebony, DJ, thank you so much.

You guys have made this so fun for me,

so fun

and interesting,

and just thank you to my fans for being there.

As much as I tease you,

as much as I fight with y'all and tease y'all,

I really do love you, and it's never personal.

I love you so much. I look like a worm.

That's dope. I never thought I'd be dressed as a worm

while accepting an award. Anyway, I love you!

Thank you, VMAs! Thank you, MTV!

[Lyrics] - Whoo-ooh-ooh-ooh

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

Every time you come around

You know I can't say no

Every time the sun goes down

I let you take control

I can feel the paradise before my world implodes

And tonight had something wonderful

My bad habits lead to late nights endin' alone

Conversations with a stranger I barely know

Swearin' this will be the last but it probably won't

I got nothin' left to lose, or use, or do

My bad habits lead to wide eyes stare into space

And I know I'll lose control of the things that I say

I was lookin' for a way out, now I can't escape

Nothin' happens after two, it's true

It's true my bad habits lead to you

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

My bad habits lead to you

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

My bad habits lead to you

Every pure intention ends when the good times start

Fallin' over everything to reach the first time's spark

It started under neon lights and then it all got dark

I only know how to go too far

My bad habits lead to late nights endin' alone

Conversations with a stranger I barely know

Swearin' this will be the last, but it probably won't

I got nothin' left to lose, or use, or do

My bad habits lead to wide eyes stare into space

And I know I'll lose control of the things that I say

I was lookin' for a way out, now I can't escape

Nothin' happens after two, it's true

It's true my bad habits lead to you

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

My bad habits lead to you

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

We took the long way 'round

Burned 'til the fun ran out

My bad habits lead to late nights endin' alone

Conversations with a stranger I barely know

Swearin' this will be the last but it probably won't

I got nothin' left to lose, or use, or do

My bad habits lead to wide eyes stare into space

And I know I'll lose control of the things that I say

I was lookin' for a way out, now I can't escape

Nothin' happens after two, it's true

It's true my bad habits lead to you

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

My bad habits lead to you

Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

My bad habits lead to you

[cheers and applause]

- And now from the Extended Play Stage,

welcome back SAINt JHN.

- [Indistinct].

- [Indistinct]. You could sing it at home too.

[Lyrics] - Roses

I walked in the corner with the body screaming dolo

Never sold a bag but look like Pablo in a photo

This gon' make 'em feel the way like Tony killed Manolo

You already know though, say you already know though

I walk in the corner with the money on my finger

She might get it popping, I might wife her for the winter

I already know, already know, sellin' roses

All I need is roses

One, two, three, hey

When I turn it on

You know how I get too lit when I turn it on

Can't handle my behavior when I turn it on

Too fast, never ask, if the life don't last

Done been through it all

Mess with a really raw

This who you wanna be

And I know you won't tell nobody nothing

And I know you won't tell nobody no roses

I might pull up flexing on these--like aerobics

I might tell your girl you cute but balling

That shit gorgeous

Standing on the table, Rosé, Rosé, the waters

You know who, one, two, three, hey

When I turn it on

You know how I get too lit when I turn it on

Hey can't handle my behavior when I turn it on

Too fast, never ask, if the life don't last

Done been through it all

Mess with a really raw

This who you wanna be

I might bring them Brooklyn

Oh lord it's overs

I might bring them strippers out

And tell 'em do it pole-less

You already know, already know, sellin' roses

[Indistinct] One, two, three, hey

[cheers and applause]

- Coming up, Alicia Keys lights up the VMAs

with an epic tribute to her city.

The battle of the boy bands A.J. McLean,

Lance Bass, and Nick Lachey celebrate K-Pop,

Billie Eilish intros the rock performance we all need!

Foo Fighters are about to shred!

And later, find out who takes home the

most coveted award of the night,

Video Of The Year!

- Boys Sometimes a girl just needs

- Please welcome A.J. McLean, Lance Bass and Nick Lachey!

- What's up, New York? - What's up, New York?

- What's up, Brooklyn? Woo!

What is up? Brooklyn in the house tonight.

- Yeah. So listen, you guys, listen,

at the height of Backstreet Boys,

I remember being chased down the street by mobs of fans,

mobs, all of you.

- And with NSYNC...

[crowd screaming]

Yeah, it was the screaming.

- What? - So much screaming.

- What? - Eh?

- What? Seriously. Wow.

- Well, fellas, that's all well and good,

but 98 Degrees fans used to actually ...

Thank you. Thank you.

Used to actually hide themselves in laundry carts

to get up to the floor of the hotel

we were staying at. It's crazy stuff.

- Yep. Had that one, yeah. - Dirty laundry, huh? Nice.

But boy band fans, they ain't got nothing on K-Pop fans.

Here are the nominees.

- Best K-Pop. BTS, "Butter." [Lyrics]

- Get it, let it roll Smooth like butter

- Twice, "Alcohol-Free."

[Lyrics] - Tequila, margarita

Mojito

- BLACKPINK and Selena Gomez,

"Ice Cream." [Lyrics]

- Sweet with the kiss so he call me ice cream

- [G]I-DLE, "DUMDi DUMDi."

[Lyrics] - Dumdi, dumdi

- Seventeen, "Ready to Love." [Lyrics]

- Can we stay together

- Monsta X, "Gambler."

- All right, you guys. And the VMA

goes to...

BTS, "Butter"! [Lyrics]

- Side step, right-left, to my beat

High like the moon, rock with me, baby

- All right, guys. BTS could not be here tonight,

but they sent a message to all their loyal fans.

I'm going to take this home with me. Thank you.

- Take it. Run. Go! [Lyrics]

- Smooth like butter, like a criminal undercover

Gon' pop like trouble,

breaking into your heart like Ooh

- Hey, we are ... - BTS!

- Thank you for this honor. I'm sorry we couldn't be there,

but hopefully next time we will.

- We feel so blessed and grateful

for all the love we received this year.

- Shout out to Army, the best people in the world.

- We will keep bringing great music [Indistinct]

for you guys. - Love you all!

- Love you! - Yeah!

- Give it up for Billie Eilish!

- Hi! What's up?

So tonight, for the first time ever,

MTV is presenting the Global Icon Award at the VMAs!

An entire generation of music fans grew up with this band,

and they helped the world fall in love with rock and roll.

They put their heart into every single song

and leave it all on the stage every single time.

They've carried the torch of rock and roll for 26 years.

They have 12 Grammys, 7 platinum albums,

two VMAs, and this year, they'll be deducted ...

inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

They are heroes. They are legends,

and now, they're officially Global Icons.

I am very honored to introduce Foo Fighters!

- Run and tell all of the angels

This could take all night

Think I need a devil to help me get things right

Hook me up a new revolution

This one is a lie

We sat around laughing and watched the last one die

- All right, New York! [Lyrics]

- I'm looking to the sky to save me

Looking for one sign of life

Looking for something to help me burn out bright

Looking for a complication

Looking 'cause I'm tired of trying

Make my way back home and learn to

- This one is for the [Indistinct]

[Lyrics]

- If you want to

I'll make you feel something real just to bother you

Now I got you

Under my thumb, like a drug, I will smother you

I'll be the one, be the moon,

be the sun, be the rain in your song

Put that record on

If you want to I'll be the one,

be the tongue that'll swallow you

Shame, shame, shame, shame

Shame, shame, shame, shame

Another splinter under the skin,

another season of loneliness

I found a reason and buried it,

beneath the mountain of emptiness

Oh-oh

Oh, oh

Oh-oh

Oh, oh

- All right now! Ready? I want to see everyone dance.

Come on. Ah!

[Lyrics] - Hello

I've waited here for you

Everlong

Tonight

I throw myself into you

And out of the red Out of her

- Here we go! Come on!

- Come down and waste away with me

Down with me

Slow, how you wanted it to be

I'm over my head

Out, all right!

When I sing along with you

Here we go!

If everything could ever be this real forever

If anything could ever be

this good again

The only thing I'll ever ask of you

You've got to promise not to stop when I say when

- That was incredible.

Please join me in congratulating this year's

Global Icons, Foo Fighters! [Lyrics]

- There goes my hero

Watch him as he goes

- Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen,

for having us here tonight. It's quite an award to receive.

We've been a band for 26 years, so it feels pretty good.

But we'd like to thank all of the people

at MTV past and present. We made a list.

There's Kurt Loder and Tabitha Soren

and J.J. Johnson, that was one ...

Jackson, sorry. - Matt Pinfield!

- Matt Pinfield! - Steve Isaacs!

- Steve Isaacs! Amy Finnerty, that's right.

So thank you all very much for this award.

We'll see you in 26 years.

[Lyrics]

- I feel like an astronaut

- Coming up, we're in an "Empire State of Mind,"

Alicia Keys salutes New York City,

the year's biggest artists battle it out

for the most sought after VMA, Video of the Year,

and it's about to get lit, Busta Rhymes takes the stage,

and he ain't holding back.

[Lyrics] - I feel like an astronaut

[Lyrics] Caught dipping with your friend

You ain't even half man, lying

- Give it up for SZA. [Lyrics]

You know that Got me a bag full of brick

You know that Control,

don't slow the pace if I throw back

- This next performer is an iconic artist

and one of New York's most beloved singers,

songwriters and producers.

I've gotten to see her work up close,

and she puts her beautiful soul into everything she does.

Tonight, one of our brightest lights

is here to celebrate the greatest city on Earth,

and to perform her new song, "LALA," with Swae Lee

in Liberty State Park, here is Alicia Keys.

- How y'all feeling, New York?

I go by Swae Lee, Lee Swae, same difference,

special guest of the iconic, amazing Alicia Keys.

We want to welcome y'all to the "LALA."

[Lyrics]

Light the incense

- Incense - Not to mention

- Mention - Skin like whiskey

- Whiskey - She's cold like on the rocks

- La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

- I'm still low, smoking zaza

- Light the incense Lose the tension

Feel like heaven

Lust mixed with a vodka

- La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

- Feelings get lost in the lala

- Happy, but you're unhappy

Shorty, you're so valid

I'm ready when you're ready

- Ready

- Don't you know eyes can be so deadly

- I try not to think, but you made me

It's just a cheap thing, baby

- Baby

- All in my satin sheets

You're laying - Laying

- Walk through the door

There you were

Bought you Louis, Fendi, et cetera

Shorty, you should've told me you were dangerous

Woman, you should've told me you were medicine

- Put it on me

Like you said you was - Said you was

- Fell so hard like you said you was

Love out of this world

Out of this nebula

It's special

Put you on my schedule

- Light the incense - Incense

- Not to mention

- Mention - Skin like whiskey

- Whiskey

- She's cold like on the rocks

- La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

- I'm still low, smoking zaza

- Light the incense

Lose the tension

Feel like heaven

Lust mixed with a vodka

- La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

- Feelings get lost in the lala

- How we feeling tonight, New York?

It's such a beautiful night. [Lyrics]

- La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

- Big love to my brother, Swae Lee.

- Alicia Keys, thank you so much, New York!

- The vibe is incredible.

Yeah.

Welcome to the Empire State,

home of the world trade,

birthplace of Michael Jordan, Biggie, Jay-Z and Nas,

can't forget Alicia Keys. We in here.

So I want you to help me celebrate the magic

and the strength of this beautiful city.

[Lyrics]

One hand in the air for the big city

Street lights, big dreams, all looking pretty

No place in the world that could compare

Put your lighters in the air

Everybody say

Yeah

Yeah

In New York

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of

Nothing you can't do

You're in New York

These streets will make you feel brand-new

Lights will inspire you

Talk about my city, New York

Concrete jungle where dreams are made of

There's nothing you can't do

You're in New York

These streets will make you feel brand-new

Lights will inspire you

Hear it for New York

New York New York

- I love you, New York.

- Amazing.

You guys, we need to cherish this moment.

Everybody, sit down. Get comfortable. Okay?

Look, whatever, let's keep it going for our next presenter.

He's a true rock legend, Tommy Lee!

[Lyrics]

Girls, girls, girls

Body shop Marble arch

- Hello, beautiful people. Hello, hello.

Yeah. Hey. Oh, I'm over here. What's up? What's up?

Listen. Man, I can barely see that shit.

Hold up. Yeah. There we go.

Best Alternative has been won by pioneers like Nirvana,

Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins and Green Day.

These bands have ruled MTV for entire generation.

This year's nominees are pushing the genre

in a whole new era in carrying on their badass legacy.

Here are the nominees.

- Best Alternative.

[Lyrics] Don't you shy away

- Twenty One Pilots, "Shy Away."

[Lyrics] Manifest a ceiling when you

[Lyrics] Transparency

- Willow featuring Travis Barker,

"transparentsoul." [Lyrics]

I can see right there just so you know

[Lyrics] Stop making this hurt

- Bleachers, "Stop Making This Hurt."

[Lyrics] Say goodbye like you mean it

- Glass Animals, "Heat Waves." [Lyrics]

Heat waves been faking me out

- Imagine Dragons,

"Follow You." [Lyrics]

I will follow you way down wherever you may

- Machine Gun Kelly featuring blackbear,

"My Ex's Best Friend."

- And the VMA goes to,

oh, my bro, Machine Gun Kelly

featuring blackbear. [Lyrics]

I swear to God - [Indistinct].

[Lyrics] I never fall in love

Then you showed up, and I can't get enough of it

I swear to God, I never fall in love

I never fall in love, but I can't get enough of it

- Yeah! [Lyrics]

I swear to God, I never fall in love

- Hey, shout-out to the emo kids for bringing it all back.

Shout-out to the ESG gang,

I want to thank Slim and Rook and Bass

for starting this song on a tour bus

with me years ago and Travis Barker

for pushing me to make this song what it was.

I also want to thank my label

for putting it out when I called them the day

before it was supposed to be released,

and I was like, "I hate it. Don't put it out."

Thank you for not listening to me.

I love this song." Shout-out to blackbear,

one of my first songs I ever did was with blackbear

before his name was even blackbear,

so I cherish that friendship, and the director of the video,

I haven't talked to you, Van.

I haven't talked to you since we did it

because we got in a fight on set,

but it's a great video, and I'm so glad we won!

We won! Let's go!

- And now, from the Extended Play Stage,

welcome back Latto.

[Lyrics]

Big Latto - [Indistinct]

Let's go I

throw that Back to see

if he going to catch it

I ain't athletic, but it's tennis for the necklace

Yeah Hey, where that cash at

I stack it like "Tetris" - Because she's a

- Real gutter chick, real plugs and connections

- Big Latto! - First, I

Until he lockjaw Give it to him good

Watch me knock his socks off

- Say - I run it up

They busy running they mouth

- Because she a

- I'm a real, real, chick from the Souf

- Let's go

- First off, I ain't cuffing for no clout

I ain't ... on no buddy sleeping on his partner couch

- Say whoa - He want to cut

Rather sit it on his mouth

I'm a freak, freak, freak chick from the Souf

[Lyrics] Is you gon' catch it?

Eat it up for breakfast

I ain't athletic on the--

I do gymnastics

I hit up Saweetie like what's up, I'm in the Bay

The baddest chick in MIA said I'm good when I'm in Dade

- Let's go, let's go

I throw that back to see if he gon' catch it

VMAs, what's happening?

I ain't athletic, but it's tennis for the necklace

- Say what, say what

- Aye, where that cash at?

I stack it like Tetris

Real gutta check, real plugs and connections

- And what she do?

- First I till he lockjaw

Give it to him good, knock a your socks off

I run it up, they busy running they mouth

I'm a real rich chick from the Souf

♪ ♪

- Big Latto, what you do?

- I run it up, they busy running they mouth

I'm a real rich chick from the Souf.

[cheers and applause]

- ♪ I'm coming ♪

- Coming up, our host and Best New Artist alum,

Doja Cat, passes the torch,

and we celebrate hip-hop royalty.

Busta Rhymes gives an epic performance

you can only get on the VMAs.

- ♪ Up ♪

- You can't say pop without smoke

So fill up with your lungs, my diamonds will make you choke

You like the way I move

My demeanor is meaner than yours

So clap for the encore

- And we're back live at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Last year... [cheers and applause]

Last year I won Best New Artist and it

was such an honor.

I can't wait to see who the next winner will be.

They've probably been new

for about, what, 20 years, but that's okay.

Here are the nominees for the Best New Artist.

- The power was in your hands to name this year's

Best New Artist, and it all came down to the top two.

Olivia Rodrigo ... [Lyrics]

- Well, good for you, you look happy and healthy

Not me, if you ever cared to ask

- You cut out a piece of me

Left here without you

- You tweeted, and it's time to find out

who's taking home the title.

- Oh, my mic. Oh, wow. And the VMA goes to ...

I'm so relaxed.

Olivia Rodrigo! [Lyrics]

- Well, good for you, you look happy and healthy

Not me, if you ever cared to ask

Good for you, you're doing great out there

without me, baby

God, I wish that I could do that

I've lost my mind, I've spent the night

Crying on the floor of my bathroom

But you're so unaffected, I really don't get it

But I guess good for you

- Oh, my gosh. Oh, this is so crazy.

Wow, look at how pretty. Oh, my gosh.

Well, thank you to the fans again

and everyone who has supported me.

This is just so awesome.

I want to thank Laroi also,

who inspires me every day to be a better artist.

I love him so much.

I just feel so grateful that I get to write music

and make stuff that I love and call it my job,

so thank you guys again for letting me do that.

Thank you!

- Please welcome Swizz Beatz! [Lyrics]

Stop, drop, shut 'em down, open up shop

Oh, no, that's how Ruff Ryders

- This next performer is a hip-hop icon

behind some of the dopest music videos of all times.

He's spitting his rapid-fire lyrics,

going eye-to-eye, head-to-head,

toe-to-toe with some of the best in the world.

This style you never seen. This style you never touched.

He is doing it big here tonight

to show us all how it's being done.

My brother, my brother, the icon, Brooklyn,

make some noise for Busta Rhymes!

Za-za-za-za.

- Brooklyn, make some noise!

- Flatbush. Children!

- You know what it is! - Brooklyn!

- Check it out! - Check, check it out!

- Let's go! [Lyrics]

Hit you with no delayin so what you sayin yo?

- Yo!

Silly with the nine milli, what the deally yo?

- Hey

- When I be on the mic yes I do my duty yo

Wild up in the club like we wild in the stud-io

You don't wanna violate, baby, really and truly yo

My main thug fella named Julio

- He moody yo

- Type of brotha that'll slap you with the tool-io

- Hey! - Lil scared to death

Act ... yo - X that!

- Look at shorty, she a little cutie yo

The way she shake it make me wanna get all in the booty yo

Top miss, just hit the bangin ... in videos

- Video now

- Whylin with my freak like we up in the freak shows

Hit you with the shh make you feel it all in your toes

- Hey!

- Hot shh got all my people in wet clothes

Stylin my metaphors when I formulate my flows

If you don't know you messing with lyrical player pros

Do you really wanna party with me?

- Come on

Let me see just what you got for me

Put your hands where my eyes can see

- Put your hands up!

- Straight buckwhylin in the place to be

- Put it up now

- If you really wanna party with me

- Yes, y'all

Let me see just what you got for me

- Hey

- Put all your hands where my eyes can see

- Straight buckwhylin in the place to be

- Put it up

- If you really wanna party with me

In God we trust

- Put your hands up!

- Hands up, VMAs! And here we go!

- Hey, ho, hey, ho, hey, ho

Ho ho ho ho ho - [Indistinct]

- Yuh - [Indistinct]

- Yuh - Yo what

- Busta Rhymes - What

- Spliff Star - What

- VMAs - What

- Brooklyn

- Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

- Oh, let me hear you say

- [Indistinct] - You want to act stupid

- Gun-butt that fool

- When I gots that tool - What

- Run your damn jewels - [Indistinct]

lay you up in your own blood pool

- Say what - Hunt you down

- Down - Run yo ass down

Unleash the hounds Send them dudes

And run yo ass down Stop it

- Fronting like this was a thing of the past

Tattoos over the scars - Left on yo ass

- They may think lopsided But they got cross-sighted

On the subways, rob trains

- Run alongside it, blaow blaow

- You know that we don't play that shh

You want your shh back Pay for that shh

You little costume - Stupid

- Romper room - Stupid

- Get you in the night or early in the afternoon

- Stupid - We taking your whole shh

- While we pass through - Even the shirt off your back

- Run that, too

- At the count of three,

I want to see everybody jumping!

One, two, three, jump! Here we go yo, here we go yo

So what so what so what's the scenario

Here we go yo, here we go yo

So what so what so what's the scenario

- As I combine all the juice from the mind

Heel up, wheel up

- Bring it back, come rewind, now

- Powerful impact boom from the cannon

Not bragging, tryna read my mind

- Just imagine now - Vo-cab-u

- Very necessary

- When digging into my library

- Saying - Oh my gosh!

- Oh my gosh!

- Eating Ital Stew like the one Peter Tosh-a

- Uh, uh uh, all over the track man

Uh, pardon me, uh, as I come back

Yeah

- Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it

Turn it, leave it, stop, format it

- Put your hands up!

- Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it

Turn it, leave it, stop, format it

Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it

Turn it, leave it, stop, format it

Touch it, bring it, pay it, watch it

Turn it, leave it, stop,

format it

- And the beat goes bam ba bam bam bam

- Hey

- Bam ba bam bam chicka Bam ba bam bam bam

Yo, yo, yo

Get low, Bus, Bus

Who be the King of the Sound?

Busta Bus back to just put a lock on a town

Lot of my people be comin' from miles around

They be comin' 'cause they know how the God

Turn it up

Now you know who holdin the throne

- So gimme the crown

- People salutin' and tryin' to

- Give me a pound

- I don't really mess with you dudes

- You dudes is clown - Makin' the people strippin'

Throw they shh on the ground

Get low Bus

Now that's the way that it goes - Uh-huh

- When we up in the spot, see, be flooded with hoes

- Come on - See, we a make it hot

The chicks will come out their clothes

When they get it, mami already know

- Turn it up

- Shorty wildin' and shorty open, she beastin' it out

For the record, just a second

- I'm freakin' it out

- While she tryin' to touch, see

- I was peepin' it out

- Turned around and was tryin' to put my ...

in her mouth I let her

Touch it, bring it, babe, watch it

Turn it, leave it, stop, format it

Touch it, bring it, babe, watch it

Turn it, leave it

- A little louder

- Touch it, bring it, babe, watch it

Turn it, leave it, stop, format it

Touch it, bring it, babe, watch it

Turn it, leave it, stop, format it

Get low Bus

- Hey, yo, Bus! - What up, Spliff?

- Let's show the VMAs how East Flatbush, Brooklyn do it, boy!

- Hey yo, VMAs.

Hey yo, VMAs!

Let me show you how to keep the dice rolling

when you doing that thing over there, homie.

[Lyrics] Ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy, ayy, ay

Let's go

'Cause I'm feelin' like I'm runnin'

And I'm feelin' like I gotta get away, get away

- Get away

- Better know that I don't and I won't ever stop

'Cause you know I gotta win everyday-day

See, they really really wanna pop me

Just know that you will never flop me

And I know that I can be a little cocky

- No

- You ain't never gonna stop me

Every time I come, a man gotta set it

Then I gotta go, and then I gotta get it

Then I gotta blow, and then I gotta show that

Any little thing a dude think that he be doin'

'Cause it doesn't matter - Damn

Then I'm gonna murder everything and anything

A ba-da-boom, a ba-da-bing, I gotta do a lotta things

That make it clearer to a couple people

That I always win and then I gotta get it again and again

and then again And I be doin' it to death

And now I move a little foul, a brother better call a ref

And everybody know my style and they know that I'm the best

When it come to doing this and I be bangin' on my chest

And I bang in the East and I'm bangin' in the West

And I come to give you more and I will never give you less

You will hear it in the street

or you could read it in the press

Do you really wanna know what's next?

See the way we on and then we all up in the race

And you know we gotta go, don't try to keep up with the pace

And we strugglin' and hustlin' and sendin' in and gettin'

And we always gotta do it, take it to another place

Gotta taste it Grab it

And I gotta cut all through this traffic

Just to be at the top of the throne, better know

I gotta have it Have it

Have it Have it

Don't this hit make my people wanna

- Jump jump

Everybody just jump jump

Don't this hit make my people wanna

- Jump, jump - Don't this haaa

- Jump, jump - Don't this, haaa

- Hit make my people wanna jump jump

Don't this hit make my people wanna jump jump

Everybody now, jump jump

Don't this hit make my people wanna

- Jump jump

- Don't this hit make my people wanna

- Ha!

- Flatbush, stand up!

- Brooklyn! Don't ever forget that!

- We love y'all!

- The party continues.

congratulations to these MTV favorites

on their VMA victories tonight.

[Lyrics]

Side step, right-left, to my beat

- Best Group, BTS.

- High like the moon, rock with me, baby.

- Best R&B, Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak and Silk Sonic,

"Leave the Door Open."

[Lyrics] Call me when you need

- Best Direction, Lil Nas X,

"Montero [Call Me By Your Name]"

[Lyrics] Call me by your name

- Best Cinematography, Beyoncé, Blue Ivy,

SAINt JHN and Wizkid, "Brown Skin Girl."

Best Choreography,

Harry Styles, "Treat People with Kindness."

For a complete list of winners, go to vma.mtv.com.

The biggest superstars in music are battling it out

for the most coveted award of the night.

Who will take home the VMA for Video of the Year?

[Lyrics] Hop on top

- Will Cardi and Megan drown

the competition with "WAP"? [Lyrics]

Look at my mouth Look at my thighs

This water is ...

Come take a dive

- Or can DJ Khaled and Drake pop off with the win for

"Popstar" with Justin Bieber? [Lyrics]

Nah, nah, I'm a popstar, not a doctor

- Doja Cat and SZA

can almost taste the win with "Kiss Me More."

[Lyrics] When I bite that lip

Come get me too

He want lipstick, lip gloss

Hickeys too

- Will Ed Sheeran's "Bad Habits" pay off?

[Lyrics] Nothin' happens after two,

it's true, it's true

My bad habits lead to you

- Will "Montero [Call Me By

Your Name]" bring Lil Nas X

the ultimate title? [Lyrics]

Call me when you want Call me when you need

Call me in the morning

I'll be on the way

- Or will last year's winner The Weeknd make it rain

with "Save Your Tears"? [Lyrics]

Take me back 'cause I wanna stay

Save your tears for another

- Find out who takes home

Video of the Year when the MTV Video

Music Awards continue.

- Coming up, Machine Gun Kelly takes the stage

for a fire performance of "papercuts,"

and we crown your Video of the Year next.

[Lyrics] Panama

- Please welcome David Lee Roth.

[Lyrics] Panama

Panama

Panama Ain't nothing like it

It's a shining machine

Got the feel for the wheel

- Look at all the people here tonight.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for the big noise,

the big sound in the big town.

It's the big choice, the big prize.

This is the grand. This is the Video of the Year,

the hook upon which we hang our memory of the whole year,

and there's some serious money in this mother ...

Oh, yeah. Amazing lineup of contestants.

You've been an amazing audience tonight.

Give yourself a big hand here before we kick it out.

Woo!

Hey, Mr. DJ. Take it to the 4K. Maestro, hit it.

The contestants tonight for Video of the Year are ...

Hit it, [Indistinct]!

- Video of the Year.

Doja Cat featuring SZA, "Kiss Me More."

Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion, "WAP."

[Lyrics] Let me tell you

I got this ring [Lyrics]

Call me when you want

- Lil Nas X, "Montero [Call Me By Your Name]."

[Lyrics] I'll be on the way

[Lyrics] I want this

- DJ Khaled featuring Drake, "Popstar,"

starring Justin Bieber.

[Lyrics] I'm a pop star

But this ... ain't bubblegum

[Lyrics] Bad habits lead to

- Ed Sheeran, "Bad Habits." [Lyrics]

Into space And I know I lose

- The Weeknd, "Save Your Tears."

[Lyrics] For another day

Ooh, girl

- Minds working, butts twerking,

everybody's a little bit nervous here.

Ladies and gentlemen, explode when you hear the name.

Give them a win to remember.

Video of the Year goes to...

Lil Nas X.

[Lyrics] Call me by your name

Tell me you love me in private

Call me by your name

I will not care if you're lying

Call me when you want

Call me when you need

Call me in the morning

I'll be on the way

Call me when you want

Call me when you need Call me out by your name

I'll be on the way like

- Whoa!

Let's go!

Wow. Oh, my god. Okay.

First, I want to say thank you to the gay agenda!

Let's go, gay agenda!

Thank you to [Indistinct].

Oh, my god. Thank you to Kelly. Thank you to Holdo.

Thank you to every single person on my team.

Everybody, go and buy my album September 17th, "Montero"!

I love you guys so much. I do not take this for granted.

- Please welcome Kourtney Kardashian and Megan Fox.

[Lyrics]

[Indistinct]

- I'm a huge fan of this next performer.

I've watched him grow and not just as an artist

but also as a person.

- I'm a fan too, and I think his drummer is super hot.

- New York, I need you to get extra loud

for our future baby daddies.

- Machine Gun Kelly and Travis Barker.

[Lyrics] Bleach my hair Mess it up

Take my life

Dress it up

Signed a deal

I got paper cuts

They wanted them

But they got us

- Oh

- Yeah, yeah

- Oh

Uh, sleeping in, faked sick

Smoked a blunt, had a kid

Don't belong I'm a punk

Hello, world You all suck

- Hey, hey

- Keep my mouth shut and wave

Sing it - Hey, hey

- I'm dancing on my grave

Mm

Mm Everybody's so nice lately

- Everybody's not nice

- Polarized feelings, I don't wear them on my face lately

- I don't wear them on my face

- Internalized everything the headlines say lately

Everything they say

Demonized just because I was a angel-face baby

- What is this now - Career suicide

- Hey, hey

Keep my mouth shut and wave

Hey, hey

I'm dancing on my grave

Mm

Mm

[Indistinct] And I might go to sleep

And then never wake up

I spend a lot of money on these therapy sessions

Even though I'm not showing up

I spend a lot of my heart and my head

But I still put my [Indistinct] in my gut

Me and my girl was just screaming at each other

right before we broke out of the truck

I got some demons inside

I'm trying to free them inside

Came from the Cleveland East Side

Where the boy who was just starving with you

Might now try to eat you alive

Damn, y'all said that [Indistinct]

I saw the limit and took the fall

And I'm a genius because I'm [Indistinct]

But this song is for my dead father

Uh

Yeah, yeah

Yeah

- Wow.

You better break that guitar. I know that's right.

All right. Thank you to all my fans.

Thank you, MTV.

Happy birthday. I love you all.

Everyone else, go home. Get out of here.

Go be famous somewhere else. Love you. Good night.

[Lyrics] Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star

- In my mind and in my car We can't rewind

We've gone too far

Pictures came and broke your heart

Put the blame on VCR

- You are a radio star

- Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star

Video killed the radio star

- In my mind and in my car

We can't rewind

We've gone too far