{"id":409922,"date":"2026-08-18T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409922\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:06:08","slug":"mtv-vmas-feature-houston-hip-hop-takeover-and-an-honorary-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/409922\/","title":{"rendered":"MTV VMAs feature Houston hip-hop takeover and an honorary local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of Houston hip-hop stars\u00a0\u2014 and one unofficial Houstonian\u00a0\u2014 will battle it out for an\u00a0MTV Video Music Award.<\/p>\n<p>The nominations were\u00a0announced Tuesday morning, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/entertainment\/music\/article\/madonna-confessions-2-album-madonnarama-houston-22327233.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna<\/a>, whose \u201cConfessions II\u201d earned 11, including video, artist and song of the year. This year\u2019s best hip-hop category was an\u00a0H-town takeover:<\/p>\n<p>This is\u00a0Toliver\u2019s first nomination.\u00a0The nominees also include \u201cJanice\u00a0STFU\u201d by Drake, who credits Houston with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/lifestyle\/article\/drake-houston-love-affair-17150400.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kickstarting his career<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The category is rounded out by Cardi B and Kehlani (\u201cSafe\u201d) and Tyler, the Creator (\u201cSugar on My Tongue\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Texas nominees in other categories include\u00a0Kacey Musgraves, Lainey Wilson and Ella Langley.<\/p>\n<p>The VMAs will air live Sept. 27 on MTV. Fan voting is open for 13 categories at <a href=\"https:\/\/vote.mtv.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">vote.mtv.com<\/a> through Sept. 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A trio of Houston hip-hop stars\u00a0\u2014 and one unofficial Houstonian\u00a0\u2014 will battle it out for an\u00a0MTV Video Music&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-409922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}