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Kendrick Lamar dominates at the VMAs

By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 29 August 2017

It was the VMAs on Sunday night, the big annual awards bash from MTV Stateside. For younger readers, MTV was an olden days thing that was a bit like YouTube, but shitter.

So here we go everybody, the list of VMA winners courtesy of the shit version of YouTube! As you’ll quickly notice, it was Kendrick Lamar’s night overall, which is very good news indeed, because he loves shit versions of YouTube. Enjoy the list everybody!

Video Of The Year: Kendrick Lamar – Humble
Song Of The Summer: Lil Uzi Vert – XO Tour L1if3
Best Hip Hop: Kendrick Lamar – Humble
Best Dance: Zedd and Alessia Cara – Stay
Best Pop: Fifth Harmony feat. Gucci Mayne – Down
Best Collaboration: Zayn and Taylor Swift – I Don’t Wanna Live Forever

Best Direction: Dave Meyers Snd The Little Homies (for Kendrick Lamar – Humble)
Best Cinematography: Kendrick Lamar – Humble
Best Art Direction: Kendrick Lamar – Humble
Best Choreography: Kanye West – Fade
Best Visual Effects: Katy Perry feat Skip Marley – Chained to the Rhythm
Best Editing: Young Thug – Wyclef Jean

Artist Of The Year: Ed Sheeran
Best New Artist: Khalid
Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award – Pink

Best Fight Against the System (everyone’s a winner in this category): The Hamilton Mixtape – Immigrants (We Get the Job Done), Alessia Cara – Scars to Your Beautiful, John Legend – Surefire, Logic feat Damian Lemar Hudson – Black Spiderman, Big Sean – Light, Taboo feat. Shailene Woodley – Stand up/ Stand N Rock #NoDapl