00:00Cardi B and Kehlani's SAFE wins Best Hip Hop at VMAs
00:04Cardi B and Kehlani have taken home Best Hip Hop at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards,
00:10adding another major award to their resume.
00:13Their collaboration SAFE earned The Moon Person on Sunday night, September 27th,
00:19at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles.
00:22Snoop Dogg hosted the ceremony, which was broadcast on CBS and MTV.
00:27SAFE appears on Cardi's 2025 Billboard 200 chart-topping album Am I the Drama
00:33and marks the pair's second collaboration,
00:36following Ring from Cardi's 2018 debut album Invasion of Privacy.
00:41The win highlights the continued impact of a song that brought together
00:45two major voices from different sides of hip-hop and R&B.
00:49SAFE competed against Don Tolliver's E85, Drake's Janice S. T.F.U.,
00:54Megan Thee Stallion's Lover Girl, Travis Scott's Dumbo,
00:58and Tyler Thee Creator's Sugar On My Tongue.
01:00The lineup made the category particularly competitive,
01:04representing established superstars and some of the biggest names in contemporary hip-hop.
01:09For Cardi B, the victory adds to a career decorated with multiple MTV VMA wins,
01:15including wins for Money and Talkie Talkie during her 2019 VMA run.
01:19Her collaboration with Megan Thee Stallion on WAP also became a major VMA moment,
01:25and she has regularly worked with artists across genres,
01:27including Bruno Mars, Bad Bunny, J Balvin, and Maroon 5.
01:31For Kehlani, the honor adds to an accomplished R&B career
01:35that includes Grammy nominations and a large international fan base.
01:40The Oakland-born singer's Folded Single also won two Grammys earlier this year,
01:44and her discography includes acclaimed projects such as Sweet Sexy Savage,
01:49It Was Good Until It Wasn't, and Blue Water Road.
01:52The Best Hip-Hop Win is one of several major moments at this year's VMAs.
01:57Madonna is performing at the VMAs.
01:59For the first time in 23 years,
02:02Nirvana is receiving the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award,
02:05and Taylor Swift is earning the Inaugural Artist Director Honors.
02:08The 2026 ceremony is also the first held on the West Coast since 2017.
