MTV has revealed the complete listing of nominees for the 2025 Video Music Awards, and Kendrick Lamar might be competing for a complete of 10 honors. They embrace Artist Of The 12 months, Video Of The 12 months, Greatest Album, Greatest Hip-Hop, Greatest Collaboration, Greatest Cinematography, Greatest Choreography, Greatest Path, Greatest Artwork Path, and Greatest Modifying. In flip, he’s the hip-hop artist with essentially the most nominations.
Forward of him are Girl Gaga, who’s up for 12 awards, and Bruno Mars, who’s competing for 11 awards. Moreover, Sabrina Carpenter and ROSÉ every have eight nods whereas Ariana Grande has seven nominations.
Lamar’s iconic “Not Like Us” diss observe is single-handedly serving to him earn six of the nominations whereas his album, GNX, and his collaboration with SZA, “Luther,” are being acknowledged as nicely. Lamar dropped “Not Like Us” because the climactic diss observe in his viral feud with Drake in 2024. The tune already received 5 Grammy Awards for File of the 12 months, Tune of the 12 months, Greatest Rap Efficiency, Greatest Rap Tune, and Greatest Music Video. Moreover, he carried out it on the Tremendous Bowl LIX halftime present. Drake is up for an award on the VMAs as nicely. His tune, “Nokia,” is competing towards Lamar for Greatest Hip-Hop.
The MTV Video Music Awards might be held on Sunday, September 7, 2025, on the UBS Area in Elmont, New York.
Kendrick Lamar & SZA “Grand Nationwide Tour”
The announcement of the VMA nominations comes as Kendrick Lamar and SZA have been performing collectively on the Grand Nationwide Tour. The run of reveals kicked off on April 19, 2025, after they carried out in Minneapolis. Within the months since, they’ve carried out throughout North America, earlier than starting the European leg of the tour in July.
When Lamar hits Australia, later this 12 months, he’ll be swapping out SZA for his different longtime collaborator, ScHoolboy Q, on account of scheduling conflicts. ScHoolboy Q and Kendrick Lamar had been famously members of Black Hippy collectively.
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