Kendrick Lamar stuns the earth when he won Video of the Year for his ground breaking video "Humble."

The song and music video were the first to be released from Kendrick Lamar'southward new album DAMN earlier this year and has been one of the biggest hits of the year so far. Not very often we see rapper's win in this covetous category at the VMAs, only Yard-Dot has been breaking all types of records this yr and so his win is not surprising.

Kendrick Lamar went upwardly against some big records like Bruno Mars "24K Magic," Alessia Cara'southward "Scars To Your Cute," The Weeknd's "Reminder," and DJ Khaled featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller's "Wild Thoughts." Kung-Fu Kenny went into Lord's day night'southward awards with the most nominations a total of 8. By the cease of the show he won six of the 8 making him the dark'south biggest winner. This marks the showtime fourth dimension that he has won the Video of the Year category. He also won a moon man for All-time cinematography, Best hip hop Video, Best Cinematography, All-time Management, Best Art Direction, and Best Visual Effects.

"Glory be to god everytime for giving u.s. these amazing talents like my man say I ain't zippo without my squad Dave Free," Kendrick said while accepting his award. "I've been rocking with this guy since I was 14 years former, he has e'er been a visionary, nosotros ever put out hits together, and he is ane of the greatest visionaries today in the game. Dave Myers come up on man… I think me and Dave Fee been wanting to rock with you since we were fourteen years old you lot know what am proverb then cheers for allowing usa to take our thoughts and our wild imaginations to the next level. This guy has ever been a genius, true pleasure for real."

Kendrick Lamar too performed a medley of his singles "Loyalty" and "Humble" on the show as the opening human activity.