Megan Thee Stallion is ready to proceed her sizzling lady summer time as this 12 months’s host on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs). For the primary time, the three-time GRAMMY®-winning and two-time VMAs-winning rapper will tackle internet hosting duties on the award present. Whereas that is her first award-hosting gig, the artist beforehand hosted Saturday Evening Reside and co-hosted The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.
The rapper can be one of many night time’s prime nominees, securing 5 nods—essentially the most for any hip-hop artist this 12 months—together with Greatest Hip-Hop Video for “BOA,” a standout from her newest album Megan. Her different nominations embody Greatest Collaboration for “Wannabe,” with tour mate confirmed VMA performer GloRilla.
2024 has been a monumental 12 months for Megan, kicked off with a #1 debut on the Billboard Sizzling 100 for her single “Hiss.” She adopted up by dropping her first unbiased album, Megan, which debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200. This summer time, she set the charts on hearth along with her viral single “Mashumi,” that includes Japanese rapper Yuki Chiba, at the moment holding robust at #37 on the Sizzling 100.
Along with her studio success, Megan has been taking her Sizzling Woman Summer season Tour on the highway, touring throughout North America and Europe with GloRilla on a 36-date run. The tour included notable stops in Megan’s hometown of Houston and a sold-out present at New York Metropolis’s legendary Madison Sq. Backyard.
The VMAs have been having fun with a resurgence, with the 2023 present marking one of many highest-rated in years. The previous two years have seen Nicki Minaj function host, with 2023 additionally celebrating hip-hop’s fiftieth anniversary in a star-studded tribute that includes Minaj, Lil Wayne, LL Cool J, and others. This 12 months’s VMAs will air stay on September 11, from New York Metropolis, at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET on MTV and different Paramount platforms.
