Eminem opened the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards tonight, performing “Houdini” and “Someone Save Me” from his newest album, The Death of Slim Shady (Coup de Grâce), at Long Island’s UBS Arena. Eminem recreated his well-known set from the 2000 VMAs, when the stage was filled with lookalikes of the rapper throughout his performance of “The Actual Slim Shady.” This time round, Em and his doppelgängers sported ill-fitting blonde wigs and darkish beards throughout “Houdini,” whereas Jelly Roll appeared onscreen for a digital duet on “Someone Save Me.” Watch it occur under.
This marks the Eminem’s second time opening the awards ceremony, following his 2010 set that included “Not Afraid” and the Rihanna duet “Love the Approach You Lie.”
Eminem is nominated in eight classes at this 12 months’s VMAs—and profitable in only one might break his tie with Phil Collins, making him the artist with essentially the most MoonPerson trophies in VMAs historical past. Em is up for Video of the Yr, Greatest Hip-Hop, Greatest Course, Greatest Enhancing, Tune of the Summer season, and Greatest Visible Results for “Houdini.” He additionally acquired a nod for Artist of the Yr and VMAs Most Iconic Efficiency.
Eminem has carried out on the VMAs a number of occasions, most lately on the 2022 occasion, when he appeared alongside Snoop Dogg as an avatar. In 2012, he and Snoop have been joined by Dr. Dre for a rendition of “Forgot About Dre” and “Nonetheless D.R.E.”
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