GloRilla may be new to the VMAs, but the Memphis-bred MC made her debut at the MTV Awards on Wednesday (September 11) with a tough mixed performance that earned her four nominations and a debut berth. The three-hour telecast is coming to an end.
Wearing a floor-length pinstriped black coat and matching baseball cap, the rapper opened with her hockey-inspired hit “Yeah Glo!,” which hit Billboard earlier this year It ranked No. 28 on the Hot 100 Singles Chart, and also climbed to No. 7 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and ranked No. 1 on the Mainstream R&B/Hip-Hop Play chart.
As six dancers in black leather clad her circle around her, Glo spits out powerful lyrics from songs on her second mixtape, ehtan ehtanbefore the lights went down, she flipped the script and launched into another one of her 2024 hits, “TGIF.” The presenter stripped down to a black business casual bikini with silver accents and a tie, with her long blond ponytail swung behind her, transforming the digital cube farm behind her into a sweaty nightclub.
Glo walked down a table-like catwalk, with similarly dressed dancers banging on the table as Glo worked her way up while women tossed fun bucks into the air. “Turnt up with my n-as/Turnt up with my b-hes,” Gloria raps on the chorus, as Camila Cabello and Shaboozey enthusiastically lip-sync in the audience model, while she performed a twerking clinic on the pushing jam, which peaked at No. 2 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart in July.
She even survived a moment near the end of the medley, when a dancer rehooked her bra and Glo smiled and struck a triumphant, happy pose.
