Eminem Sings for the Moment With Jaw-Dropping 2024 VMAs Performance
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Eminem is back, backmost again connected the VMAs stage.
The hep hop icon—whose existent sanction is Marshall Mathers—kicked disconnected the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards successful New York connected Sept. 11 successful signature jaw-dropping manner with an energetic show of "Houdini" and "Somebody Save Me," marking his archetypal televised show successful enactment of his 12th workplace medium The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce).
The 51-year-old—who released The Death of Slim Shady successful July—entered the UBS Arena sporting a platinum blonde wig and flanked by a bevy of Eminem lookalikes, a motion to his 2000 VMAs show of "The Real Slim Shady" wherever helium pulled a akin stunt.
Later, helium traded the wig for a achromatic shot headdress arsenic helium delivered a heartfelt rendition of his Jelly Roll-assisted track, "Somebody Save Me," which includes references to his daughter Hailie Jade, 28.
Other immense names acceptable to instrumentality the signifier see Megan Thee Stallion—who doubles arsenic big for the evening—Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, GloRilla, Lenny Kravitz and Shawn Mendes. Plus, Katy Perry volition ignite the airy and fto it radiance erstwhile she performs a medley of hits earlier receiving the prestigious Video Vanguard Award.
As for the “Houdini” rapper, helium went into the nighttime with 8 nominations—including Video of the Year—but his VMAs past dates each the mode backmost to 1999, erstwhile helium performed astatine the awards for the precise archetypal clip and took location the grant for Best New Artist. Since then, he’s racked up a full of 67 VMA nominations—second lone down Madonna for vocation nods— and 13 wins overall. He holds the grounds for astir Moon Persons ever among rap artists and is tied with Peter Gabriel among each antheral artists, a necktie helium would interruption with conscionable 1 triumph this year.
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Eminem’s past quality connected the VMAs signifier was successful 2022, erstwhile helium delivered a metaverse-assisted show alongside chap hep hop heavyweight Snoop Dogg. But backmost erstwhile helium opened the ceremonial successful 2010, helium started with his anthemic deed “Not Afraid” earlier being joined by Rihanna to present their duet “Love the Way You Lie.”
Offstage, Eminem shares Hailie, arsenic good arsenic Alaina, 31, and Stevie, 22, with ex-wife Kim Scott. His opus “Temporary,” disconnected his Death of Slim Shady LP, is dedicated to Hailie, who revealed connected her Just a Little Shady podcast that she “audibly sobbed” the archetypal clip she heard it.
“Growing up, wherever I didn't recognize however atrocious things were, but present arsenic an adult, successful hindsight, it's truthful scary to deliberation about,” she said, alluding to her dad’s conflict with addiction before getting sober successful 2008. “I deliberation that's wherefore I get affectional truthful much, conscionable reasoning that that could person happened.”
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