{"id":2448014,"date":"2019-08-26T21:18:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T03:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=876678"},"modified":"2019-08-26T21:18:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T03:18:02","slug":"a-confusing-new-jersey-medley-closes-2019-vmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/a-confusing-new-jersey-medley-closes-2019-vmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Confusing New Jersey Medley Closes 2019 VMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/queen-latifah-nj-medley.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>It took nearly 40 years for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mtv-video-music-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Video Music Awards<\/a> to settle on Newark, New Jersey, as its location. In honor of this year\u2019s award show home, the powers-that-be chose to honor the state by collecting an odd assortment of Jersey\u2019s most iconic rappers \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/naughty-by-nature\/\" id=\"auto-tag_naughty-by-nature\" data-tag=\"naughty-by-nature\">Naughty by Nature<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/queen-latifah\/\" id=\"auto-tag_queen-latifah\" data-tag=\"queen-latifah\">Queen Latifah<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/redman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_redman\" data-tag=\"redman\">Redman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/fetty-wap\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fetty-wap\" data-tag=\"fetty-wap\">Fetty Wap<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/wyclef-jean\/\" id=\"auto-tag_wyclef-jean\" data-tag=\"wyclef-jean\">Wyclef Jean<\/a> \u2014 to deliver the finale for this year\u2019s show.<\/p>\n<p>To be transparent, I was born and raised in the middling state of New Jersey and even I\u2019m bewildered by this hodgepodge of musicians hailing from three different eras of hip-hop closing out the same show where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-panini-mtv-vmas-876779\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lil Nas X<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/shawn-mendes-if-i-cant-have-you-vma-876385\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shawn Mendes<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/normani-motivatino-mtv-video-music-awards-875604\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Normani<\/a> performed. Alone, they\u2019ve all contributed to the fabric of hip-hop, but together in 2019 it looks like someone gave their inebriated uncle the aux cord at a Labor Day BBQ in Asbury Park.<\/p>\n<p>Naughty By Nature performed \u201cO.P.P.\u201d to a room full of people that weren\u2019t born when it was a hit. Fetty Wap ran through \u201cTrap Queen\u201d for a crowd that was definitely alive and thriving when the Paterson rapper was beginning his now-legendary 2014-2015 run. Then Wyclef started walking on his hands. It was a mixed, chaotic, but ultimately worthwhile bag. All it was missing was Zach Braff DJing a quick <em>Garden State<\/em> soundtrack set.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/new-jersey-medley-2019-vma-876678\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took nearly 40 years for the Video Music Awards to settle on Newark, New Jersey, as its location. In honor of this year\u2019s award show home, the powers-that-be chose to honor the state by collecting an odd assortment of Jersey\u2019s most iconic rappers \u2014 Naughty by Nature, Queen Latifah, Redman, Fetty Wap, and Wyclef [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 20:59:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}