- We ready, and rolling? We relling?
♪ My name is Lizzo, I'm here to say, ♪
I'm from Detroit, and grew up in the H.
Moved to Minneapolis, worked with Prince.
And now I'm here on this MTV .
Go Lizzo, go Lizzo, go Lizzo!
(laughs)
- [Lizzo] Hey everyone! Looked who just arrived
here on the VMA white carpet. Desiigner!
- Hey, what it is, what it is VMA?
You know what time it is. We in the building.
Hey, hey, hey!
- Do I even have to ask you questions?
You got so much vibes, so much energy.
- Girl, you feel me. You know hype, man.
Just trying to chill out, just trying to sweat out (mumbles)
- I love this suit. It's like a salmon color.
- One of those smooth suits from Margelli
- (Interrupts)
- When are you dropping Salmon, Salmon, Salmon, Salmon
The remix about your suit?
- (Mumbles)
- ( Both Laugh)
- I like this aye, lets wrap it up
With a little freestyle okay?
Imma get the beat with you (Beatboxes)
(Boom) (CHA) (Boom-Boom) (CHA)
- Imma get it (Mumbles)
- Laughs _ Yo, I ain't gon give too much away 'cause
Tonight is gone be crazy, Thank you Desiigner.
- (Turns to crowd) AYE AYE AYE!!
- This big event is coming up with performances
By Brittany, Beyonce, Nick Jonas,
Future and Rihanna
Don't go away the VMA Pre-show will be back
Right after this.
- In the Fifth Grade, I remember I was in literature
In like Intermediate School, and they were like
Melissa, your sister's here and I went to the
Principles office and my sister was like
Yeah, we have to go, and were leaving and I'm like
" What's up" And she's like were going to Walmart to see
Destiny's Child and I was like "WHAT!!"
Destiny's Child was there was this little
Outdoor stage built and they preformed for us
- I remember I was watch and I was just like
(Acts out shock)
- And I got goosebumps and everybody in the crowd
Felt the same way, and I was like WOW!
- I really want to make people feel this way.
And from then on I was just dead set on music.
- My definition of success is a little different
Than a lot of other artist. Mine wasn't really
Monetary. Mine wasn't really associated with fame
- Like, My song ain't number one on the charts
I'm not nominated for any Grammy's
You know, Yet, and I still feel I have enough
I get to sing songs I truly enjoy, every night
Like, why bitch? Because, I wrote them.
Bitch, that's amazing!
♪ Baby, how you feelin? ♪
♪ [Crowd] Feelin fine as hell ♪
♪ One more time, How you feelin? ♪
♪ [Crowd] Feelin Fine as hell ♪
Yess!!
- [Sway] Lizzo is hanging out y'all
(crowd Cheers)
- What do you think of Halsey, you a big fan?
- [Lizzo] I love Halsey
We did shots at the Secret Genius Awards
A couple of years ago, Yeah that's my Girl.
- [Sway] What kinda of shots were they?
- Round Two, Tequila.
- [Sway] Okay, All right, Lizzo.
- Round Two Halsey.
- Okay, that was last year, at the end of last year
We actually admitted to fanning out about
Your flute Video
- Yes.
- And you actually replied to that with this right here
Check out this Tweet.
You put " Put me on ur show and I'll do it TRL"
- I said IRL on TRL
- It's was IRL? Okay that threw me off
- In real life, you thought that was a typ-o?
- I though it was a typ-o!
- Oh, Sway.
(Crowd Laughs)
- I'm like damn Lizzo you could put the "T".
- Wow, the answers Sway, do you have them?
- (Laughs)
- I don't have them.
- (Everyone Laughs)
- Curses, Curses, Curses
How long have you been playing the flute?
- Since, I was 12.
- 12 years old, okay.
- I studied flute performance in college
At the university of Houston, So stay in school
- [SWAY] OKAY
(Crowd Cheers)
- (Lizzo laughs)
- I'm not the type to put you on the spot
Until today ladies and gentlemen all right
- Oh okay great
You always make me freestyle
- (Mumbles) Sway in the Morning, you got to freestyle
But, I want to see how Sasha flute and you get down
- All right
- Okay, and since we already tapped on Juice Song
Let's run that back and let you guys so your thing
I'm gone get out the way,
You guys drop that beat on her.
Give it up for Lizzo and Sasha flute.
_ (Crowd Cheers Loudly)
(Plays flute to background music "Juice")
♪ (Lyrics start) Louis down to my drawers ♪
LV all on my shoes (ooh, baby)
I be drippin' so much sauce
Got a bitch lookin' like RAGÚ (ooh, baby)
Lit up like a crystal ball
That's cool, baby, so is you
That's how I roll
If I'm shinin', everybody gonna shine (yeah, I'm goals)
I was born like this, don't even gotta try (now you know)
- (laughs)
- [B.Simone] Girl, this MTV the Movie Awards
We come prepared we got questions for you, okay?
- All right, let's go.
- What would you be doing if you were not a celebrity?
- I would be playing the flute
I'm a classically trained flute player so.
- Professional
- Do you play any other instruments?
- Flute, Piano
I can (bleep) just about anything.
Car (bleep)
- Just give her an instrument And she can play with it.
- PLAY IT!!!
- Lizzo, I love you so much, so nice to meet you.
- Here she is, Lizzo, Listen everything
Everyone was screaming for Lizzo
- (Crowd Screams)
- This is Amazing congratulations on such a big year
Four nominations today, so listen
If you
- (Interrupts)
- Four Nominations!!
- Four! - What am I nominated, Wait.
- Everything
- What is it?
Best new artist,
- Right, so we got best new artist
- Best titties
- There it is!
- (laughs)
- Best Ass
- Best outfit, best everything
- Cutest smile
- (laughs)
_ Hey, give us a smile.
- (Both Laughs)
- Lizzo, Congratulations
This is so important and we're so happy for you
And you've been talking so much about
What the success means to you
How does it feel to get all this love
Tonight right here from the VMA'S?
- It feels incredible, I've always felt successful
Because I always did what I love
I love music and I always toured
And I always wrote songs
But to see the world smiling
And to see the world singing my songs
Saying they would never,ever,ever be a side chick
Talking about feelin good as hell
That puts a smile on my face more than anything
I truly feel successful as a human
Not just as a musician.
- Yes, Yes, Yes
Everyone is looking forward to your performance tonight
We know you got your movie hustlers
J. Lo, Cardi B gonna be incredible
Are we gonna see any of that translate tonight
for your performance?
- (Laughs)
- Poles, dancing, stripping anything, anything?
- No, it's not that kind of performance tonight
No it's gonna be something a little different
Actually I am stripping, I am stripping
- Get it right.
- I'm gone strip a little bit
- And how important is it for you to see
Missy Elliot tonight and receive the video vanguard
Knowing that you worked with her
Congratulations, what does that mean for you?
- Listen I have been telling the world
Along with many other people shout out To the Reed (Mumbles)
Why don't you have the Vanguard Award?
You own the Vanguard Award, You are a music video
And when I first met her I was like
"Sis" I love you and it's really nice to meet you
But, also how come you don't have the Vanguard Award
And she so gracious, she's like
It wasn't my time, It wasn't my time
But now it's her time
And I'm just so honored to know her
And to have a song with her
And to be at the VMA's as she getting this award
- And we all get to celebrate her tonight
Let's see what else is going on on the red carpet
♪ Why men great till they gotta be great ♪
♪ WOAH ♪
♪ I just took a DNA test turns out ♪
♪ I'm a 100% that bitch even when I'm crying ♪
♪ Crazy, yeah I got boy problems ♪
♪ That's the human in me ♪
♪ Bling, Bling then I solve em ♪
♪ That's the goddess in me ♪
♪ You could have a bad bitch ♪
♪ Non- committal ♪
♪ Help you with your career ♪
♪ Just a little ♪
♪ Your posed to hold me down ♪
♪ But you holding me back ♪
♪ And that's the sound ♪
♪ Of me not calling you back ♪
♪ Why men great till they gotta be great ♪
♪ Don't text me ♪
♪ Tell it straight to my face ♪
♪ Best-friend set me down in a salon chair ♪
♪ Shampoo Press, get you outta my hair ♪
♪ Fresh photos with the bomb lighting ♪
♪ New man on the Minnesota Vikings ♪
♪ Truth hurts, needed something more exciting ♪
♪ Bom bom bi dom bi dum bum bay ♪
♪ Pop, pop di pop pop say ♪
♪ Baby how we feelin ♪
♪ Good as hell ♪
(Crowd Cheering)
♪ Woo child, tired of the bull ♪
♪ Go on dust your shoulders off, ♪
♪ Keep it moving ♪
♪ Yes Lord, ♪
♪ Tryna get some new ♪
♪ In there, swimwear, going to the pool ♪
♪ Come now, come dry your eyes ♪
♪ You know you a star, you can touch the sky ♪
♪ I know that it's hard but you have to try ♪
♪ If you need advice, let me simplify ♪
♪ If he don't love you anymore ♪
♪ Just walk your fine ass out the door ♪
♪ Do you hair toss ♪
♪ Check my nails ♪
♪ Baby how you feelin'? ♪
♪ I'm Feeling good as hell ♪
♪ Hair toss ♪
♪ Check my nails ♪
♪ Baby how you feelin'? ♪
♪ Woo girl, need to kick off your shoes ♪
♪ Got to take a deep breath, time to focus on you ♪
♪ All the big fights, long nights that you been through ♪
♪ I got a bottle of Tequila bitch ♪
♪ You could have had a bad bitch ♪
♪ Non-committal ♪
♪ Help you with your career just a little ♪
♪ Your supposed to hold me down ♪
- Let me talk to y'all for a second
I'm tired of the bull
I don't have to know your story
To know your tired of the bull too
It's so hard trying to love yourself
In a world that doesn't love you back
Am I Right?
So, I want to take this opportunity right now
To just feel good as hell
Because you deserve to feel good as hell
We deserve to feel good as hell!
So tell me how you feel
♪ Good as hell ♪
- Can you tell me how you feeling
♪ Good as hell ♪
(Mumbles)
♪ Good as hell ♪
- When your hearts gone bad
♪ Good as hell ♪ When you don't know what to do ♪
♪ Good as hell ♪
♪ 'Cause he don't love you anymore ♪
♪ Walk your fine ass out the door ♪
♪ Feeling good as hell ♪
♪ Hair toss ♪
♪ Check my nails ♪
♪ Baby how we feelin ♪
♪ Good as hell ♪
♪ Hair toss ♪
♪ Check my nails ♪
♪ Baby how we feelin ♪
♪ Feeling good as hell ♪
♪ Hair toss ♪
♪ Check my nails ♪
♪ Baby how we feelin ♪
♪ Feeling good as hell ♪
- Say Good as Hell
♪ Feeling Good as hell ♪
- Say Good as Hell
♪ Feelin good as hell ♪
- Say Good as hell!!
♪ Good as hell ♪
- Yeah!!
(Crowd Cheers)