Jack Harlow, The Kid Laroi, Ozuna, Tainy To Perform At The VMAs

Jack Harlow, The Kid Laroi, Ozuna, and Tainy are the latest musicians tapped to perform at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards. They'll join a star-studded lineup of fellow performers including Camila Cabello, Chlöe, Doja Cat, Lil Nas X, Machine Gun Kelly, Shawn Mendes, Kacey Musgraves, Olivia Rodrigo, and Twenty One Pilots at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center on Sunday, September 12.


The Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Ozuna is returning to the VMAs stage for the initial time right after setting it ablaze with Spanish pop star Rosalía in 2019, while the other three performers in this latest batch — Jack Harlow, The Kid Laroi, and Tainy — will make their main-show debuts. And each of these has had a smash year, and sizzling new tunes, to celebrate.


The rapper Jack Harlow delivered an impassioned efficiency of his breakout single “Whats Poppin” from a Kentucky basketball court throughout the 2020 VMA pre-show. This year, he’ll appear throughout the main show alongside Lil Nas X for a duet of their hit single “Industry Baby.” Released in July, the song will feature on Nas X’s forthcoming album Montero, out September 17.

Like Harlow, The Kid Laroi and Tainy are accountable for some of the largest collaborative records of the year. Nominated for the opening time in The perfect New Artist and Push Efficiency of the Year categories, The Kid Laroi will take the stage with global superstar Justin Bieber for a can’t-miss efficiency of their chart-topping pop confection “Stay.” And Tainy will amp up the nostalgia in “Summer of Love” alongside Shawn Mendes.


It all goes down any time the VMAs air on Sunday, September 12, at 8 p.M. ET/PT on MTV. This year’s awards will debut a newly redesigned Moonperson statue from artist Kehinde Wiley. They'll also honor the victims of the 9/11 attacks by networking with with the nonprofit 9/11 Day on a series of events to promote awareness and positive action around the day’s 20th anniversary.