Late night talk show host Chelsea Handler hosted the 2010 MTV Video Awards, being the first woman in 16 years to do so. While the night featured a number of Hip Hop performances, The genre did not fare so well in the awards aspect.
Eminem opened the show with the first single from his Recovery album, “Not Afraid” and was later joined by Rihanna to perform “Love the Way You Lie.” Em won two awards, including Best Male Video and Best Hip Hop Video, but left after his performance to join Jay-Z on their New York/Detroit tour.
Rick Ross made a quick and somewhat bizarre appearance on an electric scooter, picking up Handler and not appearing on the show again.
As has been reported this past week, Taylor Swift recently wrote a song for Kanye West, which she performed during the show. The song was reported to have been a sort of “forgiving” for Kanye’s infamous antics at last year’s VMAs. While much of the lyrics felt unrelated to the rapper, others were spot-on references to ‘Ye: ’32 is not growing up now/Who you are is not what you did/ You’re still an innocent…Everyone of us has messed up too.’
Drake was joined by Mary J. Blige and Swizz Beatz on the piano. The trio performed the T.I.-featured “Fancy,” although T.I. did not attend the awards show, possibly because of recent drug charges.
5-time VMA nominee B.o.B. took the stage with both Bruno Mars and Hayley Williams to perform both “Nothing On you” and “Airplanes.” However, B.o.B did not win any awards.
New G.O.O.D. artist Pusha T joined Kanye West, who was the last performer of the night. West raised a toast to all the “douche bags,” “assholes,” “scum bags,” and “jerk offs” in reference to last year’s VMA fiasco. “You’ve been putting up with my shit for way too long,” he sang during the performance.
While Eminem left the awards show early, Jay-Z (who was also nominated for awards) did not attend the show, nor did wife Beyonce. Nicki Minaj lost out on the Best New Artist Award to Justin Beiber, while Pop artist Lady Gaga ended up taking home many of the awards including Best Female Artist and Video Of The Year for “Bad Romance.”
yeezy killed it. 1milly first week!!1
nope
ain’t happening
no 1 mil young kids getting tricked into paying the money their parents gave them to some millionaire whos got bills to pay.
200,000 maybe with half being the label.
stop trying to take money from the american public.
are you serious or are you rambling on to be funny
answer your own question
YEAH TWITTER WAS SHUT DOWN RIGHT AFTER THE AWARDS!!!!, KANYE GOT THE INTERNET GOIN NUTS!
not at all.
kanye ain’t doing nothing but manipluating teenagers.
the internet aint goin nuts at all.
its just teenagers tricked by kanye with nothing else to do.
twitter is a waste of time.
its for immature people
THIRD BITCH
Damn for real
nickis performance was retarded(not a compliment)…n will.i.am looked like a homo sensual power ranger
yes you are correct
good post
what the hell is a homosensual?
@dj
you on spell check
i think kanye’s doin acid or somethin these days. and alot of it
what he is doing is trying to trick young kids to pay the $9.99 so he can pay his bills and marketing team.
doin nothing but wastin peoples time.
Just shut up. You’re one of those people that probably approve of people downloading illegally just to spite the person who made the music. People have spent their money on worse, so stop talking like you’re the greater good for poor purchasing.
Who said I downloaded music?
Are you making up stuff?
shut up for what
this show had one purpose and one purpose only.
to try and get money from the average american public, especially the young kids.
so the millionaries can pay their million dollar bills, their advertisers, their photographers, paparazzi etc.
worst mtv awards show ever
until next year when the show gets worse and the fake sales to manipulate teenagers plummits even more
america ain’t falling for this bullshit
nice try though
what a troll. words can’t express what an idiot you are.
you wish lima.
I’m helping people out.
you’re trying to trick them for money
why not lima
you got words
so type them
don’t make excuses
lets go boss
lets read the reasoning behind the words
“troll” and “idiot”
You a little full of yourself or what? True the VMAs weren’t spot on great, but you are just downplaying everything by saying they wanted to get a quick buck. Yet you show no proof of it. The VMAs always sucks and picks the obvious winners, yet now you speak like they are just doing that.
By the way. How are people on this site trying to trick people out of their money? That makes no sense.
You want to know how they make a quick buck?
By charging you $9.99 or, $79.99 for a ticket.
Are you denying they don’t charge people?
And then you post I’m full of myself?
I’m here to help people out so they know what is going on.
What did the vma’s have to do with me?
How are you helping when you are spamming the same message and annoying people? I hope you see that you are. Also, I brought up the VMAs because you said this year was the worst, when in fact, they are all bad because they all play to the same formula now.
this isn’t spam
each post is different
How am I annoying people?
Who did I charge $9.99 to with this post.
You didn’t charge anyone, but then again, you didn’t need to. The people here are already paying for the internet that they are using. They are paying to read your comment indirectly.
completely false.
for example.
one person could be paying for the internet while they let their friend or family member use their computer.
plus there are public computers at libraries.
plus my comment isn’t part of the payment plan.
plus whether I post or not the same page remains.
If I make a post its just more content that the person that supposedly “paid” to have access to gets to read if they want to.
so I’m adding to their value, yet you blame me for the price they supposedly “paid” when I had nothing to do with payments being exchanged either way.
matter fact when I visited this site I didn’t see anything that said.
“To read futher content by —– please pay an additional $19.95”
that’s why I’m the one who knows what they are talking about.
Wow. What a ridiculous argument.
@LJbigbang
It was, but I had fun doing it.
people can spend there hard earned money on any damn thing they want to. thats what makes america great.
now shut the hell up you dickhead
True, if you are over 18 years old.
However if you are not you may be getting taking advantage of and not know what you are doing with your money, as alot of these people’s income comes from people who are technically NOT adults, meaning they are spending their parent’s money.
So your comment is false.
And you had to insult me probably because you’re scared of not being able to manipluate people for yourself.
Too bad son.
Now its the people’s turn.
The decreasing sales numbers for worthless cd, concerts etc., will prove that to you.
its not an arguement.
its facts that some people can’t handle.
Get a real job son.
the fake ones will just get tougher and tougher to find.
case closed.
why are you trying to manipulate people to your way of thinking?
why cant you just let people have their own opinions and way of thought that differ from yours?
If momma wants to give timmy money, it was momma’s choice so it doesnt matter what the hell he goes and spends it on.
Get your head out of your socialist ass..
… and you are a dickhead because you sound like a dickhead, dickhead
you said I’m manipulating people?
who am i charging?
how much do you owe me?
0
I’m not a socialist homie, that’s your problem, not mine.
You’re just pissed because you want money from teenagers, probably your only source of income.
you wrote
“it doesn’t matter what he goes and spends it on”
What if he got tricked and ended up spending it on something that he didn’t have all the information about? And the thing he thought he was spending on, turned out not to be exactly what was supposedly advertised?
Are you saying I don’t have the right to have the opportunity to give that person truthful information?
wack ass vma’s. last years was way better than this shit i can say all the performances were weak and no energy except kanye west which was alright but i would have loved more energy and that song they did sounds like a banger hopefully its better than they performed it
anybody see Will.I.Am? holy shit. he was lookin’ like a Pink Gay Mega Man.
Actually the whole VMA was like a metro sexual fashion show
Glad i didn’t watch this piece of shit award show lmao
that Kanye song was grabage.
its time for him to hang up the microphone and sit is funny looking face behind the boards and stay there.
Your a pussy for watching this gay ass show over the fucking game last nite
your gay for assuming that I did
naw homo you exposed yourself…guess seein justin bieber gets you off more than sunday night football smh at these lames
SELL-OUTS!!!…ILLUMINATI ON MTV
Kanye’s song was wack
she is sooooooooooooooo mother fucking ugly with red hair. im talking sooooooooooo fucking ugly.
anything affilated with fucking mtv is whack!
i just came on here to say that. i didnt read this bs story at all!
open your eyes ppl!
media got most all types of controlled.
ITs true what great minds say,”power will not be forced upon the masses, they will be submissive to give their freedoms”
just contemplate on that peace
yo ———–~!
i appreciate what you are doing hope the poepe are knowledgeable to even attempt to understand it!!!
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