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MTV VMAs 2022 Categories We're MOST Excited About
It was the signifier interruption heard ‘round the world.
But adjacent earlier Kanye West infamously stormed the stage during Taylor Swift's award acceptance speech successful 2009 (which was the aforesaid ceremonial that besides saw Lil Mama clang a performance and Lady Gaga make an unbelievable onstage VMAs debut), the MTV Video Music Awards was the lawsuit where anything tin happen.
Arguably, fans everyplace were stunned erstwhile Britney Spears strolled retired connected signifier with a snake afloat draped implicit her shoulders during her 2001 show of "I'm a Slave 4 U." However, that polarizing infinitesimal would beryllium triumphed conscionable 2 years aboriginal erstwhile the Princess of Pop would outdo herself erstwhile she locked lips with Madonna (with the latter besides kissing Christina Aguilera) during their 2003 performance.
And arsenic they say, the remainder is history.
This year's show—set to aerial unrecorded from New Jersey's Prudential Center Aug. 28 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT—is already guaranteed to person everyone connected the borderline of their seats.
But until then, instrumentality a look backmost astatine immoderate of the astir unforgettable moments frankincense far:
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Rage Against the Machine, 2000
Who could hide erstwhile Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford expressed his displeasure astatine the set losing an grant to Limp Bizkit by storming the signifier and scaling a show tower? Although his infinitesimal was short-lived connected television—since the web chopped to a commercial—in reality, Tim's nighttime was not since helium was arrested and sentenced to a nighttime successful jail.
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Lil Mama, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, 2009
Believe oregon not, the Kanye West-Taylor Swift incident was not the lone impromptu onstage infinitesimal to hap during the 2009 show. After the now-infamous interruption, Lil Mama decided to unexpectedly join chap New Yorkers Jay-Z and Alicia Keys during their duet of "Empire State of Mind."
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Madonna, 1984
The "Material Girl" famously sang "Like a Virgin" portion rolling astir the signifier successful a achromatic wedding dress.
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Howard Stern, 1992
The Shock Jock lived up to his raunchy estimation erstwhile helium was lowered onto the signifier arsenic a superhero named Fartman.
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Kurt Cobain vs. Axl Rose, 1992
The 2 were progressive successful 1 of the astir celebrated stone feuds. At the 1992 VMAs, tensions ran precocious backstage, wherever Cobain's wife Courtney Love, who besides brought on then-newborn daughter Frances Bean, taunted Rose, prompting the Guns N' Roses frontman to endanger to bushed up Cobain if helium didn't unopen his "bitch" up. Kurt past told Love, sarcastically, "Shut up, bitch!"
After helium performed with his set Nirvana, the group's drummer Dave Grohl kept saying "Hi, Axl!" into his mic.
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Michael Jackson & Lisa Marie Presley, 1994
Shortly aft their wedding, the mates walked connected signifier holding hands arsenic the assemblage cheered. After Jackson declared, "I'm precise blessed to beryllium present and conscionable think, cipher thought this would last," the King of Pop and Elvis Presley's girl shared a buss and walked off.
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Fiona Apple, 1997
The songstress won the grant for Best New Artist successful a Video, but utilized her acceptance code arsenic an accidental to talk retired against Hollywood, telling viewers, "This satellite is bulls--t."
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Diana Ross and Lil' Kim, 1999
While presenting Best Hip-Hop Video, the legendary vocalist unexpectedly tapped Lil' Kim's exposed near breast.
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Britney Spears, 2001
The popular princess unforgettably took the signifier for her show of "I'm a Slave 4 U" with a snake draped implicit her shoulders.
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Eminem vs. Moby, 2002
Amid an ongoing feud between Eminem and Moby, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog poked amusive astatine their beef portion roasting the second artist to his look successful the VMAs audience. Triumph past attempted to bash the aforesaid to Eminem, who was not successful the mood.
Eminem aboriginal took to the signifier to judge the grant for Best Male Video and said mid-speech, "That small Moby miss threw maine retired of my portion for a minute."
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Britney Spears & Madonna, 2003
To unfastened the show, Britney, Madonna and Christina Aguilera joined unneurotic for a rendition of "Like a Virgin" and "Hollywood," sealed with a headline-making buss betwixt the women.
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Britney Spears, 2007
The popular princess made her highly anticipated instrumentality to the VMA stage, though her show of "Gimme More" was panned.
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Kanye West, 2009
The rapper crashed the stage erstwhile Taylor Swift won Best Female Video due to the fact that helium thought Beyoncé "had 1 of the champion videos of each time." When Bey aboriginal won for Video of the Year, she asked T.Swift to articulation her connected signifier to person her moment.
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Lady Gaga, 2010
Gaga made headlines erstwhile she sported the now-unforgettable nutrient formal by Franc Fernandez arsenic the astir awarded prima of the night.
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Beyoncé, 2011
The popular prima announced she and Jay-Z were expecting their archetypal kid together erstwhile she cradled her babe bump connected the reddish carpet and virtually dropped her mic and rubbed her babe bump astatine the extremity of her show of "Love On Top."
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Justin Bieber, 2011
The Biebs had his ain snake infinitesimal erstwhile helium brought a babe boa constrictor named Johnson to the show.
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Miley Cyrus, 2013
Hannah Montana who? The erstwhile Disney prima twerked her mode into MTV past with her show of "We Can't Stop" and a duet of "Blurred Lines" with Robin Thicke.
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Nicki Minaj vs. Miley Cyrus, 2015
While accepting the award for Best Hip-Hop Video for "Anaconda," Nicki confronted Miley, who was hosting, implicit antagonistic comments she had made astir the rapper successful a New York Times interview. She called the popular prima a "bitch" and asked her, "What's good?"
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Kanye West, 2015
At the extremity of his lengthy Video Vanguard acceptance speech, the rapper unforgettably announced his plan to tally for president successful 2020.
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Drake & Rihanna, 2016
The rapper sparked headlines when helium declared his love for the songstress portion presenting her with the 2016 Video Vanguard Award, telling the audience, "She's idiosyncratic I've been successful emotion with since I was 22-years-old."
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Fifth Harmony, 2017
On the heels of Camila Cabello's exit, the miss radical shocked the satellite erstwhile they opened their performance with the representation of a 5th subordinate falling disconnected the stage.
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