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Beyonce accepts the award for Video of the Year for ‘Lemonade’ at the MTV Video Music
Awards in New York City on Sunday. (AP photo)
Beyonce Rocks MTV Music Awards
(AP) — Beyonce proved
once again she is the contem-
porary rock star, and she used
the MTV Video Music Awards
stage to showcase her skills
and outshine her peers, from
Rihanna to Britney Spears.
Beyonce won eight awards,
including video of the year, and
performed five songs from her
visual album “Lemonade” in
an epic 16-minute concert Sun-
day that had the New York City
audience at Madison Square
Garden in awe.
She sang live, danced heav-
ily and worked the crowd as
she ran through “Pray You
Catch Me,” “Hold Up,” “Sor-
ry,” “Don’t Hurt Yourself” and
“Formation,” which won the
top prize over Adele, Drake,
Justin Bieber and Kanye West.
“First of all, I’d like to thank
my beautiful daughter and my
incredible husband for all of
their support,” said Beyonce,
who walked the carpet with
daughter Blue Ivy and the
mothers of Trayvon Martin,
Michael Brown, Eric Garner
and Oscar Grant — who all ap-
peared in the singer’s “Lemon-
ade” movie.
It was reminiscent of the
2014 VMAs, when Beyonce
also performed for 16 minutes
and accepted the Michael Jack-
son Video Vanguard award.
This year it was awarded to Ri-
hanna, who split up her perfor-
mances throughout the night,
singing hits such as “Work,”
“We Found Love” and “Love
on the Brain.”
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