The American Music Awards have existed since 1973, when ABC decided they wanted their own music awards show. Ever since then it has been a symbol of… something… Let’s just move on.
I don’t really know what the differences between the AMAs, The Grammy’s, and the MTV Music Awards really are, but I suspect that they are more or less the same. All three are aimed at getting the widest audience possible and so we get a who’s who of Taylor Swifts and One Directions and whoever else is relevant enough to make white kids happy, but not edgy enough to frighten their parents. This is, after all, a program that was started by Dick Clark.
But every now and then we get a moment that cuts through the blandness and validates our watching what is an otherwise uninteresting 4(ish) hours of TV. That moment came last night courtesy of YG.
The Krazy Life rapper delivered his appropriately west coast verse on Fergie’s “L.A. Love (la la)” which can be seen below.
If you haven’t spotted the moment that I’m talking about I’ll make it a little easier for you.
That’s a blood walk. In front of 11.6 million viewers
Now, YG has always been open about his affiliation and has been know to do the walk at shows but this is a different story. This is YG being who he is in front of the whole country. This is YG not giving a fuck about censors. This is realness that deserves a +20 boost.