Many of the music industry's biggest stars attended the MTV Video Music Awards last night, but Beyonce dominated the show with a seventeen minute medley of songs from her visual album "Lemonade," and a record number of award wins.
Watch Beyonce's "Lemonade" live medley here.
Beyonce won six awards last night, included the coveted Video of The Year for "Formation," bringing her total number of VMA wins up to 21, shattering the record for most total VMA wins, which was previously held by Madonna with 20. Besides the win for Video of The Year, Bey also took home awards for Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Choreography, Breakthrough Longform Video,and Best Female Video.
Beyonce also attracted attention for bringing the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and Mike Brown with her to the award show. The mothers of the slain black men joined Beyonce and her daughter on the show's red carpet and called attention to the on-going violence perpetrated against African-Americans.
Besides Beyonce, hip hop dominated the show, with Drake winning Best Male Video and Rihanna taking home MTV's version of the lifetime achievement award, the Michael Jackson Vanguard award. Kanye West also gave a lengthy speech, where he addressed everything from his feud with Taylor Swift, his respect for Beyonce and Chance the Rapper, and the rash of violent crime in his hometown of Chicago.
By Michael Lacerna for RAPstation.com
