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Revealed on: Sep 10, 2023, 7:00 AM PDT
Nicki Minaj has been known as upon for the second 12 months in a row to host and carry out on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards.
In response to Billboard, the Pinkprint rapper will “announce the present’s star-studded lineup of performers, presenters and winners,” when the dwell music occasion takes place on the Prudential Middle in Newark, New Jersey on Tuesday (September 12).
Along with serving as emcee, Minaj will carry out her model new single “Final Time I Noticed You,” which would be the first time somebody has served as host in back-to-back years since Russell Model did in 2008 and 2009.
Nicki Minaj is nominated for six moon man’s this 12 months for Artist of the Yr; Video of the Yr, Finest Hip Hop and Finest Visible Results, all for “Tremendous Freaky Lady”; Finest R&B for “Love within the Means”; and the tune of summer time for “Barbie World,” that includes Ice Spice and Aqua.
Final 12 months, Nicki Minaj hosted the MTV VMA’s alongside LL COOL J and Jack Harlow.
She additionally obtained MTV’s Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award on the 2022 MTV VMAs. She joined previous recipients of the of the award — which honors artists for his or her contributions to the music video platform – together with Beyoncé, Madonna, Rihanna, Missy Elliot,Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, and Britney Spears.
“Nicki has damaged obstacles for girls in Hip Hop along with her versatility and inventive artistry,” mentioned Bruce Gillmer, Viacom’s head of music and music expertise and chief content material officer of music at Paramount+, in a press launch on the time.
“She has shifted the music business and cemented her standing as a worldwide celebrity along with her crossover enchantment, genre-defying fashion and persevering with to be unapologetically ‘Nicki’.”
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Nicki Minaj isn’t the one Hip Hop determine that can grace the stage that evening, as Diddy is about to obtain the International Icon Award on the annual occasion.
Puff will even carry out on the awards present, marking his first VMAs efficiency since 2005 when he participated in an orchestral tribute to the late Infamous B.I.G. alongside Snoop Dogg.
The Harlem-bred mogul has 4 nominations at this 12 months’s VMAs, together with Finest Hip Hop Tune for “Gotta Transfer On (Queens Remix)” with Bryson Tiller, Ashanti and Yung Miami, and Finest R&B Tune for his look on Metro Boomin’s “Creepin’ (Remix),” which additionally options The Weeknd and 21 Savage.
Lil Wayne and Doja Cat have additionally been handpicked to carry out. Weezy’s efficiency will mark the primary time he’s carried out on the annual awards present in over 10 years.
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