Lizzo Referenced That VMAs Beef Between Nicki Minaj and Miley Cyrus During Her Speech
glamour.comMiley, what's good? Three words that changed celebrity beef forever. Lizzo knows it too—that's why she referenced them. During her acceptance speech after winning the Video for Good award for at the 2022 VMAs, the singer cheekily alluded to the unscripted exchange between Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj. “And now, to the bitches that got something to say about me in the press,” Lizzo began before moving on to call out haters' lack of impact on her life. “You know what, I’m not gonna say nothing.
They be like, ‘Lizzo, why don’t you clap back?’ Because bitch, I’m winning!”This content can also be viewed on the site it from.'s beef pales in comparison to the iconic showdown at the VMAs seven years ago—a night that shifted our timeline.
It was 2015, Miley Cyrus danced around to “Blurred Lines” with a foam finger, and her girl squad won Video of the Year for “Bad Blood,” and Kanye West teased his eventual 2020 run for the presidency during a rambling speech when winning that year's Vanguard Award.
The real history being made came in the latter half of the night, when came for Miley's throat. After giving her acceptance speech for best hip-hop video, Minaj turned to Cyrus to call her out.
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