Nicki Minaj is the 2022 MTV VMA Vanguard recipient, so to get ready for her big night, we’re looking back at a few of our favorite past VMA performances, including “Anaconda,” “Bang Bang,” “Swish Swish,” and more. Don’t miss Nicki’s performance - as well as her role as co-host! - during the 2022 #VMAs, live on August 28 at 8p.
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What 😂🤯🤨🧐😱
HAHAHHA 💞🤩🤩😂😂
😭😭😭😭
Seeing the other female celebrities in the audience looking unimpressed during Anaconda just shows she’s always had haters.
yup, they were so bitter and for what?
ESPECIALLY Rita Ora 😂😂
@@calanthony3600 Rita Whora had to marry Taika Waititi to stay relevant and his movies are floppinnnng
@@calanthony3600 don’t forget about the kartrashians🤣🤣🤣
@@calanthony3600 nah I think Rita Ora was in love! Lmao there's another shot of her in a different video and she looks smitten
Its the fact that the crowd goes crazy when she comes out. Iconic!!!!
I’m Bang Bnag right ?😅🔥👌🏾
you couldnt even hear her over the crowd during anaconda.
You talking about the bang bang performance right?
@@abriel7455 anaconda and bang bang
Anaconda….👀… we’re we watching the same video the crowd was absolutely dead
Holding her dress together was iconic
I love how confident Jessie J is..performing with Ari and Nicki the two queens is not easy❤
she doesnt have to be a total slore like the other 2..she is far more confident, in my estimation, bc she doesn't require arrogance
She is a queen in her own right , don’t do that 😒
do you even know that Ariana used to sit in her house and do covers of Jessie J on youtube?😂
One of the greatest vocalists of her generation she is confident and she knows why !
Umm what?
Bang Bang's outfit malfunction shows you how professional and serious she is when she is performing. Truly goes to show you on anything that happens that the show must go on 😌 Queen Nicki never disappoints.
They were sabotaging Nicki left and right so the inferior Shake It Off could shine. Nicki was blocked from #1.
I kinda think it's shady of them to add that one though lol.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾Facts!!!!The Queen!!!
@@eyuh77777 well it's not that shady tbh cause its unforgettable to us because of anaconda and how she carried herself on bang bang. 🤣
@@truestarendtimesnews4730 👑👑👑
She looks so good in the Anaconda performance. Loved her hair, makeup, and that green outfit.
It’s perfect
Definitely
It’s her peak era
Nicki saved Swish Swish from the music video to the live performance. Not saying Swish Swish is bad but Nicki takes it to another level!
Totally agree
Ikr
0:34 THAT STRUT IS SO ICONIC. QUEEEEEEEEN!
Nikki has been in the bizness since time in memorial…she is now been recognised and acknowledged for her talent and dedication and perseverance…no one can say she has not earned the right to be there..unlike other white artists she has not been fast tracked …Nikki is not going anywhere …Our Black female artists are “ simply MASHIN UP the Scene “ individually and collectively are a FORCE in the industry and there is more than enough room to accommodate them…They all have their own unique skills and should not be compared or pitted against each other .. The usual suspects in the audience probably wished they stay at home …should have stayed at home… If looks could kill - say no more -l am amazed how Nikki and ALL the other artists perform to such a high standard yet their shows are different in every way …they are for ever pushing the boundaries and re :invented and staying relevant all the time one wonders what will they bring/do next..thry have raised the bar so high which other artists will struggle to compete.. the days of critics slamming our Muzik is dead and gone as these Black women have made it into an ART …and given back the kudos it so well deserves…The future of our muzik is in safe hands now and for generations to come... BLACK MUZIK has and will always be at the centre of ALL the cultures in our UNIVERSE..
Nicki really knows how to perform. She doesn't need to do heavy choreography, her stage presence is immaculate.
Exactly
i love how she’s so confident when performing!
Agreed
You spelled lil Kim wrong
@@fragilediamond3203 lil Kim fan under a nicki video lmaoooo aw
There will never be another like Nicki Minaj often imitated but never duplicated.
Agree 💯
and thats the tea💓💓💓
@Roy Mars thats why she is number 1 too ? They scared of her bby DONT EVER GET IT TWISTED.
@Roy Mars nothing was twisted but her Brian none of the rap girls touching her it will NEVER be another Nicki Minaj so you can stay mad with yo jobless ass
@Roy Mars Not a single one of them come close to her lyrically it must be sad to seethe whenever you see successful black women 💀
Nothing's more iconic than her vma's 2023 performance. QUEEN!
PERIODT
She saved ALOT of these performances 😭😩
I was thinking the same. This the era when music was definitely fading to where it is now. 😂😂
What's good about stanning NICKI is that SHE has something unique to offer, u know she all that good.
Yeah and you never know what she’s coming with
Yes
Yeah she is a chameleon
Unique?!?! 😂 The woman is a walking collage of every rapper she copied 🤭 Y'all know Onika y'all just don't know Hip-hop history.
@@PRCutie101 oooooh youre jellyyyyy
Nicki Minaj is really the only female rapper that could disappear off the face of the earth for however long she wants and still have people waiting for her return and desperately wanting new music, that’s powerful for real. 👑🐐
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🦄🦄🦄🦄💃🏿💃🏿💃🏿
Fr, floppy b could never 💀
Such a beautiful comment about her😇
@@eddiessvfx Yall fandoms won’t let this go
@@cxutiegamer3676 it was a joke
Her Girl on Fire performance made me emotional because it made me realize how LONG she has been doing this. I been following her since 2009 and witnessed every career moment in real time. Many others have come and gone but she’s still on top. A legend.
alicia sounded a bit bad when singing it but maybe it was just me
8:26 when your crush says he likes basketball
The fact that this ENTIRE comment section agrees Nicki is absolute Queen, there isnt a SINGLE hate comment😂🙌
Ariana looks better.
who talking about looks @@brianabeans4549 L
@@brianabeans4549and yet no one asked
She is amazing!! I love her so much!!
Cardi is a much better performer. I just finish watching her concert.
NICKI MINAJ OPENED SO MANY DOORS ITS INCREDIBLE 😍👌🏾😭
🚽🚽🤡🤡🤡💩💩💩
FACTZZZ
FACTS
Everytime it's Nicki's turn.. the crowd goes crazy!!. I have goosebumps all over
Funny how Nicki outshined all the ppl she collaborated with 😂
Definitely outshined Katy
The show must go on even during a clothing malfunction 3:40 That’s what I love about Nicki
I thought she was prepared a surprise with her body
@@alferrenope, she later said that the zipper broke at the very last minute so she had to keep it closed and hope for the best lol
Can’t wait for Nicki’s Vanguard Performance! I just know thr Queen will kill it
And she sid
Nicki matched the energy of the song when she performs her verse. All the clips had different energies, she's the Queen of Rap and Stage Charisma! She was so mesmerizing when she was just standing in place for Swish Swish and Girl on Fire!
No female rapper could ever give what Nicki Minaj has given us! The QUEEN is always Supreme 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
The queen of hiphop will receive her Michael Jackson award in two days. I hope her performance will be the best.
The Queen of Everything
I have no cable!!!! Noooo
@@keep6ftaway298 oop I can give you one
Queen of beauty, dancing, singing, rapping, and everything you mean?
Ummmmm Nikki is a queen but not the queen of hip hop sorry no
Queen of rap. Iconic performance. Legendary song. Can’t wait to her receiving Video Vanguard Award.
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Hello icon, how are you doing ?
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And she did😍
Jessie's vocal ability, stage presence & talent are🥰
Hello Nicole, how are you doing ?
This is giving Nicki in early 2010s where the world was right and every bar she wrote was on point! Hope we get another like grand piano on this album her voice is 10/10 ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I’ve never switched up on Nicki Minaj especially during the hate train! I rides hard for the queen 👸🏾🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄
That part Nicki all day
Hello Kim, how are you doing ?
The way the other Entertainers were glaring at ger is crazy lmao. Fans going crazy and her body was freaking sick here. She really was the only it girl killing it
2:01 lol idk it’s just funny
I swear anaconda performance was too iconic that night!! She pulled off with no hesitationn. THE GOAT
I can literally see how the crowd even goes wilder when Nicki starts to perform 🔥
Why did they forget to put the 2018 performance in here when she performed her album Queen that performance was everything and they didn’t even put it in here.
THIS!!
THAT WAS SO FOUL LIKE IT WAS HER HATE TRAIN ERA AND SHE SURVIVED IT WE GOTTA GIVE HER, THE FLOWERS SHE DESERVES FOR QUEEN
Hello Stephanie, how are you doing ?
As someone whose been a Nicki fan for 10 years I had tears streaming down my face while telling the lyrics. Nicki really is the BLUEPRINT for so much you see today, Latto, Laroi, SaweeTie, DOJA, Megan, etc. She was one of the only female rap artist to SUCCESSFULLY transition to pop and have chart toppers. Let’s not forget she had to come up when’s female empowerment wasn’t popular, she was truly the only one in a male dominated genre, and killed it. Sooo proud of her journey and she earned this night.
so true she open the doors for them who so called famous now if it was not for nicky where would they all be right now everyone is mimic her now just saying stop hating and start praising and appreciating the fact that she is everyone's role model ❤❤❤❤❤❤
literally
And look how easy for it is for whites to be rappers .
i love her recent interview w/ joe budden being like 'remember when they said i was only big when no other females were in the game. welll???' it has never had anything to do w/ the lack of female rappers in the game, now theres a surpluss and she's still keeping her foot on these bitches necks!!!
Nicki Minaj her presence is always felt no matter what she does no matter what she says she just is the type of performer that people watch.
She didn’t come to play with y’all, she came to slay b******😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤❤nothing can stop me from loving this woman yoo
This performance is everything
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Which one???
Nicki is an icon and u can never change that fact.
2:01 Rita Ora looks either scared or mesmerized 💀💀💀
Nicki the epitome of perfect female rapper. Good looking, hot asf, can dance and can spit some flames in the biggest stage. A real Queen.
The bang bang perfomance was such a sad moment for Nicki, in my opinion it was a very professional moment for me she kept a dress together even tho she was in front of THOUSANDS of people and MILLIONS of people watching like thats crazy shes really mother!!
Nothing sad about it . She handled it like a pro
@@dylanthuong2600 periodtt
This girl is on fire Nicki performance literally made me tear up... I felt that.
Hello Jojo, how are you doing ?
Yeah Nicki was amazing in that performance.
Nicki is the queen and that's it . PERIODTT This where Kim was like I need that figure 😂.
The looks on the female celebrities when Nicki 👑 is performing Anaconda is priceless😂, the expressions on their faces be like what does the queen 👑 smoke... Anyway i believe Nicki is the best, no comparison 💯💯
ik Nicki isn’t a dancer like that n the main thing in her performance is just her energy but the way she always shows up b still tries to do that lol two step including her iconic whine is everything
And her lyrics. Her music is so good she doesn't have to dance.
I’m so excited can’t wait to see her on Sunday. She deserves all her flowers. Give her the entire garden 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄
Me too.....im looking forward to Nicky and Blackpink
About damn time 🔥🔥🔥🦄🦄🦄
@@vernonjc1818 nicky??? girly
@@yasmin-fl6qp 😂
7:03 gives me chills especially at that Beat Drop! Revealing the QUEEN!
Hello label, how are you doing ?
Nicki truly knows how to perform. She doesn't have to do weighty movement, her stage presence is impeccable.😎
Queen👑Nicki 1st female artist to have more than 100 entries on billboard 💯, Most followed rapper in the world 🌎, most streamed, wealthy, world toured, and featured featured female rapper in the industry, all without needing a co-sign from the Grammys 😘
LOUDER FOR THE F00LS IN THE BACK
Nicki is EVERYTHING!!! One of the few Rappers who gets on stage & SPITS, Yet you can actually UNDERSTAND every SINGLE lyric!!!!! I Adore her & am so excited for the VMA Vangaurd Performace!!!! The QUEEN for a REASON!!! 99.99% of the Girls out now owe their ENTIRE careers to her success paving the way in a very dark world. She is the LIGHT!!!!
Respect your queen…can’t no other female rapper do it this way.❤
0:35 I AM SCREAMING OVER HER STARTING TO STRUT SHE IS A GODESS
Let’s not forget about her and Taylor’s performance at the 2015 show ❤️!!!
This is the leadership that women’s Rap/HipHop need! Not someone who has a ghost writer😹😹😹🤭🤭🤭
What's a ghost writer 🤔
😂 haters, Nickis real ass got them plastics pissed 😅
not the off beat clapping at 1:23 lmfaooo
I remember when those awards were, that was so glorious with Ariana and Jesse and
Rita Ora’s reaction just says it all in her face 🤣🤣🤣
3:49 Jessie J flashed
All the lyric changes in anaconda are so entertaining 🤣
When the music industry had talent.
U missed actual musical talent by at least 20 yrs lol
@@fishwhisperer03 Yeah and that🙄
One of my favorite performances by her is the Anaconda set😭🥰
Samesies
Has anyone else been looking for this Swish Swish performance with no luck? Nicki did her thing and looked top tier. The way she recovered from her mess up made me love her part even much more 😍 one of my fave Nicki verses btw!
Seriously she messed up I thought she was just letting the crowd say that part. Anyways she rlly shined in that performance imo
rita ora was HYPNOTISED by that bass
Nicki Minaj is the best performer of all time 🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄🦄
A REACH TO THE MOON
She is the VanGuard and she's on fireeeeee
That bang bang performance they were trying to sabotage nicki, but the queen said "i will have my moment" lol Nicki looked sexy as heck in her swish swish performance!!
And I'm still waiting for the song "TUSA", a mega hit in Spanish.
She ain’t need all that choreo, her talent speaks for itself. Her pen game is unmatched, queen of rap
Rita ora looking stunned 😲 😯 in the crowd
Both Ari and Nick performed before bang bang😂, I hate to see the rush and panick in the dressing room ,cuz on stage everything looked flawless
Nicki for Super Bowl 2024 💯💯💯💯💯
wow that gabby douglas line and then having her on stage is so smart, nickis mind is really unmatched
How dare they forget side to side 😭
Cause they hate Ariana
The way Rita was looking at her lmao
Her performing during a wardrobe malfunction is 🔥🔥🔥🔥
the ariana, nicki, jessie ariana and nicki conjunction is so iconic
Mtv recognizes real talent unlike the scammys.
I bet you she'll get a couple a dem next year or the years to come .
@@iceg8479 I hope so her and the weekend are definitely robbed
She carried on that wardrobe malfunction in 2014 like a champ and kept going. And she messed up some words in the 2017 performance but it was very discreet and she was back at it. No wonder she won the vanguard award this year. Let's keep super freaky girl at #1.
Nicki really saving MTV right now
Hello betcha, how are you doing ?
*Nicki Minaj will forever be LEGENDARY AND FAMOUS* ✨💜
OMG JLO and Ora salty faces 😂
Rita’s face expression. 😂
Can’t wait for Nicki performance this year
The good old days.. We need the classic and iconics performers back. Where are we now? The new ones are lit , just imagine how cool can be all together. Rappers , The queens and Kings of Pop. Fiuuuuuuh.❤️🔥
Look at @1:47 Jlo face and @2:00 Rita Ora face they are awestruck.. and seeing so many of the audience near the stage as ladies makes this performance evn more ICONIC DAMN
Nickis stage presence is everything🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
QUEEN OF RAP
The verse about Marilyn Monroe always gets me. Especially live.
Hello Jeremiah, how are you doing ?
@@rubengilberto100💀🧐🧐🧐
Wow! Now look! She had her own VMA show! That's soo Awesome! ❤
I still can’t believe Jessie J was singing live, like she’s underrated as a singer
Nicki's flow on Alicia keys 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 no one will ever be like Nicki 😭😭😭
I love that Nicki switch switch performance
How can I like this video a million times…Nicki is a Queen 🥰🥳
This is one reason why she is the ✨Q.U.E.E.N✨
The night is still young is also iconic
THE QUEEN OF RAP ✨
Rita Ora's expression on Anaconda is priceless. AnD Kim I think that was the moment they both realised how much they idolise Nicky
I love how Nicki always hypes up the crowd when the person she’s performing with is singing ❤❤