See Shakira, Lil Wayne & More Perform (VIDEO)

New Jersey’s Prudential Heart grew to become the middle of the music universe on Tuesday, September 12, as recording artists converged and cheered one another on on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, with the one and solely Nicki Minaj as emcee.

Lil Wayne and Olivia Rodrigo opened the festivities — one with an explosive medley and one other with a show-stopper — and that was simply the warm-up. Take a look at these acts and extra performances beneath.

Lil Wayne

Weezy opened the present in fiery trend, performing “Again That Azz Up,” “Uproar,” and “Kat Meals.” (And sure, that may be a Missy Elliott Pattern you hear.)

Olivia Rodrigo

Rodrigo introduced the home down — actually — because the set collapsed round her throughout her rendition of “Vampire.” It was all an act, although, and she or he got here again on stage to sing “Get Him Again!”

Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion

In case the percussion wasn’t a useless giveaway, these two rap stars introduced the “Bongos” — and no microphones had been harmed within the making of this efficiency.

Demi Lovato

True to the hard-rock angle of her upcoming remix album Revamped, Lovato gave sharper edges to her pop hits “Coronary heart Assault” “Sorry Not Sorry” and “Cool for the Summer season” on the VMAS stage.

Kaliii

No, Kaliii wasn’t performing “Space Codes” from one other space code—she lit up VMAs’ Doritos Prolonged Play Stage. It was a brief efficiency, however she obtained extra airplay later within the broadcast with a efficiency of “Ok Toven.”

Anitta

The Brazilian singer instructed us who she “Used to Be,” she introduced the “Funk Rave” to the stage … after which she obtained a “Grip”!

Doja Cat

This rapper actually obtained our “Consideration” — and that of viewers member Tiffany Haddish — together with her first VMAS track. Then she had an opportunity to “Paint the City Purple” and to exorcise some “Demons.”

Shakira

This 12 months’s Video Vanguard Award blessed the viewers with a medley of her biggest hits, together with “She Wolf,” “Te Felicito,” and “At any time when, Wherever.” And no, her hips nonetheless aren’t mendacity.

Nicki Minaj

Attn: Barbz — this 12 months’s VMAs host sang her track “Final Time I Noticed You” after which debuted a brand new, unnamed single from her upcoming album, Pink Friday 2.

Karol G

Pecs and six-packs surrounded this reggaetón celebrity as she carried out a medley of “Oki Doki” of “Tá OK” — and that’s oki doki with us.

Renee Rapp

In case you didn’t comprehend it, this star of The Intercourse Lives of Faculty Women has a music profession! She carried out her single “Too Properly” on the Prolonged Play Stage, and later within the broadcast, she sang “Fairly Women.”

Sean “Diddy” Combs

Puffy began his World Icon Award medley with a brand new observe — “One other Considered one of Me” from his upcoming launch, The Love Album: Off the Grid — earlier than segueing into hits like “I’ll Be Lacking You,” “It’s All Concerning the Benjamins,” “Dangerous Boy for Life,” and Keyshia Cole and his son King joined him on stage.

Peso Pluma

This 24-year-old grew to become the primary música Mexicana star to carry out on the MTV Video Music Awards when he carried out “Woman Gaga” on Tuesday night time, in accordance with Rolling Stone.

Stray Children

Not lengthy after successful the VMA for Greatest Ok-Pop, this eight-member group carried out their successful track, “S-Class,” which helped their album 5-Star debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in June.

The Warning

Followers of this Mexican onerous rock band most likely wished “Extra” after the group’s Prolonged Play Stage efficiency. Fortunately, they obtained one other likelihood to shine, performing “Evolve” later within the broadcast.

Metro Boomin, Future, A Boogie Wit da Hoodie, Swae Lee & Nav

Metro hit the VMAs stage with a few of his associates, performing “Superhero (Heroes & Villains)” with Future and “Calling” with A Boogie Wit da Hoodie, Swae Lee, and Nav.

Fall Out Boy

Making their first VMAs efficiency since 2007, this pop-punk band carried out their up to date spin on Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Begin the Hearth” on a flaming stage exterior the world.

TOMORROW X TOGETHER & Anitta

Anitta got here “Again For Extra” on Tuesday, returning to the stage with one in all Ok-Pop’s most profitable teams.

Måneskin

Damiano David, lead singer of this Italian rock band, went from vocalist to videographer, serving to to movie the group’s VMAs efficiency himself.

Kelsea Ballerini

The country-pop star sang “Penthouse (Healed Model),” a single she launched in Could as a reworked model of a single she launched in February.

Grandmaster Flash and the Livid 5, Doug E. Contemporary, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, LL Cool J & Darryl “DMC” McDaniels

On the finish of the present, hip-hop legends celebrated a half-century of the style with a medley of their biggest hits. (And now that NCIS: Los Angeles is completed, possibly we’ll get one other LL Cool J album one in all as of late!)