4:41
- culture
- August 21, 2018
Jennifer Lopez receives MTV Video Vanguard
Lopez performed and danced to some of her biggest game-changing hits.
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\"Waiting For Tonight\" IS ICONIC. ????????????@JLo #VMAs
— Video Music Awards (@vmas) August 21, 2018
The crowd got amped as she later busted out \"Love Don't Cost a Thing.\" And of course Ja Rule came out later to perform a duet of \"I'm Real.\"
i can't even breathe after walking up one flight of stairs so the fact that @JLo is giving a speech after that performance..whewwwww #VMAs pic.twitter.com/5LoOBrswfu
— Video Music Awards (@vmas) August 21, 2018
SHE'S STILL JENNY FROM THE BLOCK @JLo #VMAs pic.twitter.com/TVkI61h12O
— Video Music Awards (@vmas) August 21, 2018
A standing ovation that rocked the auditorium followed and lasted for almost a full minute.
RT IF YOU'RE SINGING ALONG TO \"LOVE DON'T COST A THING\" #VMAs pic.twitter.com/jaPEUeTIsC
— Video Music Awards (@vmas) August 21, 2018
It was announced earlier this year that Lopez, 49, would receive the lifetime achievement award that began in 1984 and was renamed after the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, in 1991. She is the first Latin artist to receive the honor.
Lopez now joins other icons who have previously received the award, including David Bowie, Beyonce, Kanye West and Madonna.
In her speech, Lopez said, \"I grew up on MTV, and this really is a tremendous honor for me.\"
She called her career an \"incredible journey of dreaming my wildest dreams and watching them come true,\" proving wrong people who said she \"could only do one thing,\" not act, sing, dance and everything else she's accomplished.
\"I always had it in mind mind, 'Why not?'\" she said. \"So I always kind of had to forge my own path and make my own rules.\"
But after two children, Emme and Maximilian, came into her life, \"I had to change,\" she added. \"Through that unconditional love, my career my whole life became clearer in every way. Now today I stand here strong, better than ever.\"
She couldn't close without giving a shout out to her \"twin soul\" and beau Alex Rodriguez. She said being with him made her believe that \"the sky is not the limit.\"
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