The efficiency kicked off with Eminem and Snoop Dogg sitting collectively on a sofa, whereas the latter smoked an enormous joint.
Eminem and Snoop Dogg reunited onstage on the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards for a singular Otherside metaverse-inspired efficiency of their latest collaboration “From the D 2 The LBC.” The tune marks the primary collaboration for the rappers in additional than 20 years. The pair additionally earned a nomination for “greatest hip-hop video” for the tune.
The efficiency kicked off with Eminem and Snoop Dogg sitting collectively on a sofa, whereas the latter smoked an enormous joint. How he acquired such a factor onto the stage? “I acquired connections,” Snoop Dogg tells Eminem.
Seemingly below the affect, the rappers have been transported to a metaverse model of their efficiency, equally to the tune’s music video. Whereas they carried out the primary half of the tune dwell, the viewers watched animated variations of the rappers carry out within the metaverse.
“Yo Slim, get up,” Snoop Dogg referred to as to Eminem midway by way of their efficiency. “We acquired a present to do.” The rappers completed off the tip of the tune onstage. Eminem wore his signature all-black outfit with a black baseball cap, whereas Snoop Dogg donned a big fur coat.
Otherside is described on its web site as “a gamified, interoperable metaverse at the moment below growth. The sport blends mechanics from massively multiplayer on-line function taking part in video games (MMORPGs) and web3-enabled digital worlds.”
MTV partnered with Yuga Lubs on the efficiency, which aired dwell through the Sunday awards present on the Prudential Heart in Newark, New Jersey.