“Music is the force that brings us all collectively,” he told the crowd. “It’s a ways no longer crucial what you're bumping for your playlist this present day—pop, country, Latin, hip hop, Okay-pop, straight up rock—it's all right here.

Right here’s the 57-year-extinct's 2nd time net hosting the award demonstrate. In 2022, he shared emcee duties with Nicki Minaj and Jack Harlow.

“I keep in mind the principle time I hit the VMAs stage,” LL Chilly J said at the time, recalling how he made his debut reduction in 1991. “In an awfully good deal of how, we had been introducing hip-hop to the arena.”

And it modified into as soon as no doubt an night time to take care of in tips for the Any Given Sunday star, who nabbed a Greatest Rap Video award for his rupture hit “Mama Acknowledged Knock You Out.” Six years later in 1997, he modified into as soon as given the Michael Jackson Video Leading edge Award, turning into the principle-ever rapper to be honored with the prize.

In a beefy circle 2nd, he obtained the special Moon Person from Mariah Carey, who is that this year's Leading edge Award recipient.

In March, LL Chilly J praised his “I'll Be Lovin' You Long Time” collaborator, calling her “one of the most supreme singers, songwriters and artists of all time.”

“twelve months after year, decade after decade, Mariah has persisted to share her shapely bid, her songwriting and her deeply non-public narrative with hundreds and hundreds of fans in every single instruct,” he shared onstage all the intention via the 2025 iHeartRadio Awards. “Along the vogue, Mariah has broken almost every chart listing all over the arena.”

He added of the singer, “Right here’s the unheard of narrative, a a hit narrative of a hero, a fable, a butterfly, a imaginative and prescient of like, who constantly has us feeling emotions.”

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