Baller Alert Entertainment & Lifestyle 
Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards was nothing short of epic! The Leader of Navy and Queen of the Beehive were under one roof. It was destined to be lit.
Bad Girl Ri Ri opened the show up with a smashing performance of medleys that included “We Found Love” , “Don’t Stop the Music”, “Only Girl”. Ariana Grande hit the stage with Nicki Minaj. Alicia Keys paid homage to the 53rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “ I Have A Dream Speech” with a powerful poem. Michael Phelps introduced Future and Panda’s own, Desiigner, got his life with the performance. Yeezy shouted out his ex- Amber. In true Yeezy fashion, he went on a tangent before debuting his new video “Fade” featuring Teyana Taylor as the lead.
And then Yonce’ was all on our mouth like liquor. Blazing the stage with #Lemonade cuts, she gave us life! I’m not the biggest Bey fan, but she is definitely an entertainer. Her shows are always intricate. She thinks about every detail. Britney’s performance was a bust, but all entertainers are entitled to one televised poor performance. Rihanna came back to save the day again. Drake gave us high school awkwardness and prepubescent cuteness when he admitted he has been in love with Rihanna since he was 22 years old.
Beyonce was nominated 11 times. She took home 8 of those nominations including the awards for Video of the Year with “Formation” and Best Pop Video as well as Best Female Video among many others. She passed Madonna with the most Moonmen. Fifth Harmony Took home Song of the Summer for “All In My Head”. Drake Took Best Hip Hop Video For “Hotline Bling”. Rihanna received the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award and snagged another award for the collab with Calvin Harris. I would lie to you like I paid attention to all the entire award show, but I was only concerned with the performances.
Check out complete list of awards below.
WINNERS
VIDEO OF THE YEAR
BEYONCÉ – “Formation”
Director: Melina Matsoukas
MICHAEL JACKSON VIDEO VANGUARD AWARD
Rihanna
BEST FEMALE VIDEO
BEYONCÉ – “Hold Up”
Director: Jonas Åkerlund, Beyoncé Knowles Carter
BEST MALE VIDEO
Calvin Harris ft. Rihanna – “This Is What You Came For”
Director: Emil Nava
BEST COLLABORATION
Fifth Harmony ft. Ty Dolla $ign – “Work From Home”
Director: Director X
BEST HIP HOP VIDEO
Drake – “Hotline Bling”
Director: Director X
BEST POP VIDEO
BEYONCÉ – “Formation”
Director: Melina Matsoukas
BEST ROCK VIDEO
twenty one pilots – “Heathens”
Director: Andrew Donoho
BEST ELECTRONIC VIDEO
Calvin Harris & Disciples – “How Deep Is Your Love”
Director: Emil Nava
BREAKTHROUGH LONG-FORM VIDEO
BEYONCÉ – Lemonade
BEST NEW ARTIST
Presented by Taco Bell®
DNCE
SONG OF SUMMER
Presented by Verizon
Fifth Harmony featuring Fetty Wap – “All In My Head (Flex)”
PROFESSIONAL CATEGORIES
Presented by Orbit® Gum
BEST ART DIRECTION
David Bowie – “Blackstar”
Production Designer: Jan Houllevigue
BEST CHOREOGRAPHY
BEYONCÉ – “Formation”
Choreographer: Chris Grant, JaQuel Knight, Dana Foglia
BEST DIRECTION
BEYONCÉ – “Formation”
Director: Melina Matsoukas
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
BEYONCÉ – “Formation”
Cinematographer: Malik Sayeed
BEST EDITING
BEYONCÉ – “Formation”
Editor: Jeff Selis
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Coldplay – “Up&Up”
VFX Editor: Vania Heymann
All in all, the performances were dope.
-Niko Rose
