The MTV Video Music Awards, colloquially generally known as the VMAs, have introduced their record of nominees for this 12 months’s ceremony. This 12 months, for the primary time, CBS and MTV will each air the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards in early September.

This 12 months’s MTV Video Music Awards function classes which are sponsored by internationally recognized manufacturers that we’ll record beneath. As that is Hip-Hop Wired, we’re eager to focus on nominees associated to the style within the nominees record.

Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” is up for a Video Of The 12 months VMA, introduced by Burger King. Ok-Dot is joined by The Weeknd and Playboy Carti’s “Timeless.” For Artist Of The 12 months, Lamar exhibits up as soon as extra, and Houston celebrity Beyoncé can also be one of many nominees. Doechii, one of the crucial thrilling artists to emerge in years, is up for a Music Of The 12 months VMA for her stellar “Anxiousness” monitor, and “Timeless” exhibits up as soon as once more.

Within the Greatest Hip-Hop VMA slot, Doechii’s “Anxiousness, Drake’s “NOKIA,” Eminem and Jelly Roll’s “Any individual Save Me,” GloRilla and Sexyy Pink’s “WHATCHU KNO ABOUT ME,” Ok-Dot’s “Not Like Us,” LL COOL J and Eminem’s “Murdergram Deux,” and Travis Scott’s “4X4” have been listed.

Take a look at the total nominee record by clicking right here and solid your votes. The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards will air on Sunday, Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. ET.

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