{"id":784894,"date":"2026-09-28T03:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784894\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T03:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T03:50:09","slug":"snoop-dogg-as-mtv-vmas-2026-host-highlights-and-best-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784894\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg as MTV VMAs 2026 Host: Highlights and Best Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSnoop Dogg knows how to wow a crowd, and the 2026 MTV<\/a> Video Music<\/a> Awards<\/a> was no exception.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe rapper hosted the ceremony at Los Angeles\u2019 Peacock Theater, where he kicked off the festivities by poking fun at Madonna, who opened the show and took home multiple awards, and shared a special shoutout to his hometown of L.A. The 2026 VMAs<\/a> is the first time the show has taken place in L.A. since 2017\u2019s ceremony, which was hosted by Katy Perry at The Forum.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMadonna just killed it. Now, that is an icon. One thing I wanna say is, she ain\u2019t a virgin no more,\u201d Snoop said during his opening monologue. \u201cNow, when they first asked me to host this award show, I said, \u2018Is it gonna be in LA? No? Well, I\u2019m busy.\u2019 Then, they called me back and said, \u2018Hold on, Mr. Dogg. It\u2019s in L.A now.\u2019 So, having this show hosted by me in my city means two things. One, tonight is gonna be the biggest party the VMAs has ever seen. And two, it wouldn\u2019t be a Snoop Dogg party if I didn\u2019t provide some of that special, sticky, icky, icky \u2026 that\u2019s for every winner here tonight. Just the winners, though.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m grateful to be in the company of some of my favorite people,\u201d Snoop continued. \u201cMadonna, Taylor Swift, Shaboozey, Lisa, Bruno Mars and my girl, Raye \u2014\u00a0just to name a few. Now, we got a lot of people in here tonight that\u2019s ready to party. Before we get this show started, I want to make sure that you are ready to have some fun, OK?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere during the show, Snoop<\/a> introduced Raye, who is nominated for song of the year for her smash single, \u201cWhere Is My Husband!\u201d and best visual effects for \u201cClick Clack Symphony.\u201d The \u201cNuthin\u2019 But a \u2018G\u2019 Thang\u201d rapper said that he was one of Raye\u2019s \u201cbiggest fans\u201d before the British singer made her VMA debut<\/a> with a performance of \u201cHusband!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThroughout the show, the rapper \u2014 who\u2019s been nominated for 13 VMA awards during his career, with three wins \u2014 rapped snippets of his catalog, including \u201cGin and Juice\u201d and \u201cDrop It Like It\u2019s Hot.\u201d Snoop rapped the chorus of 1994\u2019s \u201cJuice\u201d before encouraging the audience to finish the lyric. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe 2026 VMAs aired on CBS and MTV and streamed on Paramount+ Premium in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\n\tFind all the winners here<\/a>, and check out the red carpet looks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg knows how to wow a crowd, and the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards was no exception.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[20267,96,13903,57823,128,391,56,54,55,25957,258531],"class_list":["post-784894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-awards","tag-entertainment","tag-mtv","tag-mtv-video-music-awards","tag-music","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vmas","tag-vmas-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}