Lil Mama has issued a statement to explain why she ran on stage during Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ “Empire State of Mind” at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards. “I did not mean any disrespect towards Jay-Z or Alicia Keys,” the rapper/America’s Best Dance Crew judge says. “I admire them and look up to them as role models. ‘Empire State of Mind’ had my emotions running high. In that moment I came up on stage to celebrate my two icons singing about NY.”
So there you have it. Lil Mama ran on stage because 1) “Empire State of Mind” is a very dope song (true) and 2) it made her want to celebrate two of her icons…by randomly popping up next to them in the middle of a live television performance. Okay!
Does that explanation work for you? Personally, I think MTV might want to invest in a moat around the stage before next year’s awards, just in case anyone else wants to do any impromptu icon-celebrating. Re-live the head-scratching moment again, below, then let us know what you think.
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Lil Mama is an idiot.
I concur.
agreed
Lil Mama just wanted to be in the spotlight, and chose her way to do it after not having been invited to do so…
Yeah, if she really just loved the song, she could have just demonstrated her approval by, you know, CLAPPING or something. Like a normal person.
LOOLL true
Lil and Kanye need mental help.They have self-awareness levels lower than all the 2 years of the world.
security was really bad there…
Agree.
it was nonexistent!!!
I just think that Lil’ Mama got carried away….if you ever hear her talk…all she ever says is how she reps Brooklyn…I guess she figured she could be up there because of her being from NY…hot mess!!!!
Yes. i have seen her cry and act like an idiot on dance crew when brookln is brought up. But having the nerve to get on stage with JayZ and Alicia?? She needs to control herself. Just because she works on MTV as the worst judge on ABDC doesnt give her the right to do what she wants. Especially after Kanye already acted like an idiot. Diddy reps new york too.. u didnt see him gettin up there. She is an idiot.
Diddy is from Mount Vernon.
Not exactly part of NYC is it now?
I dont see Tom Cruise reppin NYC. Syracuse is as much a part of NYC as Mount Vernon.
Jay should have her knee-capped for that. Total disrespect!
He even asked her to stand down and she STILL struck a pose with them at the end.
She is a no talent hack and had no business even getting close to those two. Trashy little scallywag
lol scallywag
double lol @ scallywag
HAHA! she is a scallywag.
Oh you are so right. I hate that girl. She made a complete ass out herself.
hahahaaaaaa. nice word.!
“We don’t believe you, you need more people!”
If she was smart she’d wait for Lil’ Wayne, Lil’ Boosie and Lil’ Kim to be on stage…then it’d be a meeting of the Lil’ people
LOL!! Good one
lmao
you forgot lil’ romeo. Ha ha!
And lil’ scrappy!
you is so right!you seen what she had on?everybody was looking ok even lady gaga but not lil mama
I guess she missed what Kayne’s stage jumping did for him the rest of the night. You looked like a fool. You just were smart enough not to take the mic like Kayne did. We all know that we would have witnessed a serious beatdown, from Alicia…y’all forget she hood too, don’t let the makeover fool you. She’d go straight back to them cornrolls and baggy clothes real quick. LOL
Alicia Keys isn’t ghetto, she’s from Long Island!
Um she’s from hell’s kitchen. Thats far from long island
what is a lil mama? Who is lil mama? The price of fame seems to be stupidity as of late.
She still is not as bad at hoggin the spotlight as Kanye’s Ego!
To Everyone: people make mistakes get over it guys. She apologized for it and that’s it. You guys you are GROWN ADULTS calling people names get a grip.
She was probably high.
can you blame her? that was the only way to fully enjoy this years’ BORING vma’s
lol true that
I’m sorry, but I have no idea who this person even is, and I consider myself to be somewhat knowledgeable about pop culture. Why are these no-talent celebrities so intent on making everything about them?
Amen! Her claim to fame I believe was doing a remix of “Girlfriend” with Avril Lavigne. I didn’t even know she was on SYTYCD but then again maybe I would if I watched that show.
She’s NOT on So You Think You Can Dance, she’s on America’s Best Dance Crew. And rather than the Avril remix, she’s more known for her two top 10 hits “Lip Gloss” and “Shawty Get Loose.”
This was a dumb move, but I still will preach that Lip Gloss is a fantastic song that you will only like if you are smart enough to appreciate and recognize the intentionally ludicrous.
You would think that there would be some kind of security there. One person is bad enough. After that you say, “maybe we should step it up”, then a second person? jeez
The funny this is it’s the celebrities that are posing the security risk! All of those fans who went on stage with Green Day were perfectly fine!
lilMama was feeling that song, she was n a “empirestate building state of mind” lol & whether she was drinking, smoking, or none of the abov, she didn’t c the harm n being herself & join her peeps up on the stage n their final chorus. Whether we all liked it or not, She wasn’t trippin’ nobody.
if she was Kanye, B, Lil Wayne or somebody with more selling power nobody wouldn’t b sayin’ a word about what she did. Self-assured Bravado…thats what shes got.
i turned my tv off yesterday when jay took the stage cuz i’m not a fan and that song is madd boring.. so i’m just hearing about this today.. lil mama just ethered her entire existence.. but u know.. this is what i hate about new york people, they only help eachother, and they talk in their own codes (i.e. wu-tang) and they rep their city too much.. like get over urself, we are all born somewhere and every place is special in its own way.. the best city on earth is SUBJECTIVE
+1. Lil’ Mama is over repping her city. It gets old hearing this crap she does on ABDC where she cries for NY. YOU AREN’T THE REP FOR NEW YORK! You aren’t even really famous. Her songs are second rate at best and then she caught a lucky break with getting on ABDC.
of Alicia Keys, Bob Dylan said, “there’s nothing about that girl I don’t like.” I wonder if hangin’ with a no-talent fool who can’t keep his pants pulled up has changed his mind.
Are you kidding me? That comment was ridiculously idiotic…
are you serious? why should alicia be concerned with what bob dylan, or you for that matter, feel about her. HOVA is a great artist. Lack of knowledge brings about ignorance as proven in your statement.
perhaps, but i’ve got the use of the nickname “hova” in defense of my assessment “fool,” along with the attempted murder and all his petty rivalries. the fact that he has surpassed even E.Presley in number of chart-topping albums provides strong defense of my “no talent” assessment. this latter requires the understanding that to like rap music is to either not know or to ignore the very definition of talent. So, there you have it…
attempted murder and rivalries has nothing to do with talent. neither does the fact that he cant keep his pants up. if you are implying elvis didnt have talent you may want to look outside of his musical abilities. his talent may have been more in the way he was able to dance and make people feel. jay z is a talented story teller and clever wordsmith. it seems you have a problem with the culture more so then the talent. hope your not a racist.
NO, seriously though, that was absolutly ridicious; wtf was she thinking?
it would be nice if they invited her, but they rele didn’t; i agree with LipGlossKing tho, she needed to wait for tha alliances of the “lil” maybe then it wouldnt have been such an mess; lls
Really?!!! I just commented on something stupid this lil girl did a couple of weeks ago. You’d think she’d have learned her lesson by now. All that she does (trying to be “cute” and “smart”) makes her look like a lil fool! Where’s her mama?!!! She need a spanking!
“You’d think she’d have learned her lesson by now” yeah. how crazy that she didn’t read this blog, see Sassy’s comment and immediately change her ways!
I believe that Lil Mama’s actual mother has passed way in 2007.
Her mom is dead..thank you very much.
lmao@ conception, and thanks sparky.
awful reasonss!! shes dumb ass
I think that she need to feel like somebody important because she isnt getting the attention that she needs so she had to jump up there
I don’t get why nobody stopped her.
YOU NEVER FELT THAT WAY ABOUTH YOUR CITY THEN YOU MUST BE A HATER IT WAS EMOTIONAL AND IT GOT ME TO REPERSENT WHERE YOU FROM AND YOUR PROUD WHAT THE THE FU*K IS WRONG WITH THAT….
whats wrong with it is that lil mama did it …she sucks
this is most likely lil mama in disguise as michelle. Or some ignorant new yorker. I agree in having respect for your home town, im dam right proud to be born in perth, australia and now living in LA, but seriously, there is a difference between respect/patriotism and being obnoxious.
She should rep NY by showing that NYers can control themselves. To all the people saying that her and Kanye were “being real,” let’s remember “When being real goes wrong” (Chappelle’s Show)
One word, CRAZY!
What a stupid move Lil Mama. We all know you rep NY, but so do a lot of other people and they didn’t go bounding on stage. Get a hold of yourself!
lil mama was feeling it, I agree it was a total disrespect for her to jump on stage like that…but she must’ve felt moved by the song, or maybe she was on something..who knows. Still luv ya lil mama!
jay looked like he was ready to smack her, and say “now’s not the time for life lessons from a 15 year old crackhead. you crackhead!”
HOV just ignored her….; hahhaha
i cant stand lil mama she has no talent and wanted to be in the spotlight so bad at the VMA’s that she interupted to of the best in the game,If she is a fan then she should have respected the performance and performers and wiewed from a respectable distance.What a talentless fool!!!
Well fans at concerts do that all the time if they can get pass security so, I based on her reasoning she was doing what star struck fans do.