{"id":478655,"date":"2026-09-28T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478655\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T21:58:08","slug":"snoop-dogg-hosts-2026-mtv-vmas-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478655\/","title":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg Hosts 2026 MTV VMAs in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snoop Dogg <\/a>brought his signature West Coast personality to the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, hosting the ceremony in Los Angeles and joking that he was responsible for bringing the VMAs back to his hometown. The hip-hop icon opened the show at Peacock Theater with jokes, celebrity shout-outs and a promise to make it \u201cthe biggest party the VMAs has ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The VMAs<\/a> had been held on the East Coast since 2018, according to Billboard,<\/a> making the ceremony\u2019s return to Los Angeles a notable homecoming for Snoop. The rapper has deep ties to the city and the West Coast hip-hop scene. \u201cWhen they first asked me to host this award show, I said, \u2018Is it gonna be in L.A.?\u2019 I said, \u2018No? Well, I\u2019m busy,\u2019\u201d Snoop joked during his opening monologue.<\/p>\n

He said organizers eventually called him back with a change of plans. \u201cThey called me back and said, \u2018Hold on, Mr. Dogg. It\u2019s in L.A. now.\u2019\u201d That set the tone for a ceremony built around Snoop\u2019s personality and his connection to Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\"DetroitMINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA \u2013 DECEMBER 25: Snoop Dogg performs the halftime show during the game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions at U.S. Bank Stadium on December 25, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by David Berding\/Getty Images) \u2013 Credit: Photo David Berding \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

The rapper leaned into his longtime cannabis-friendly persona while promising to make the night memorable for the show\u2019s winners. \u201cSo having this show hosted by me in my city means two things: One, tonight is going to be the biggest party the VMAs has ever seen,\u201d Snoop said. \u201cAnd two, it wouldn\u2019t be a Snoop Dogg party<\/a> if I didn\u2019t provide some of that special sticky icky icky. Hold on, that\u2019s for every winner here tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Snoop also acknowledged several of the night\u2019s major stars, including Madonna, who opened the ceremony, and Taylor Swift. The 54-year-old rapper added some traditional Snoop humor to the opening, including a brief stand-up routine and a \u201cDeez Nuts\u201d knock-knock joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snoop Dogg brought his signature West Coast personality to the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, hosting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,181297,43021],"class_list":["post-478655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mtv-vmas","tag-snoop-dogg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}