Tems nominated for MTV Video Music Award

Temilade Openiyi, also known as Tems, has been nominated in the Best Hip-Hop category of the 2022 edition of the popular U.S. award show, the MTV Video Music Awards.

This is coming after former U.S president, Barack Obama, listed her hit song in his annual summer playlist released on Tuesday.

She received the nomination for her feature in Future’s song ‘Wait for U’. The song also has Canadian rapper, Drake, in it.

By her nomination, Tems will be going against some of hip hop heavyweights like Eminem and Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar, Latto, Nicki Minaj, Lil Baby, as well as Pusha T.

The award ceremony will be held on August 29, 2022.

In June, Tems made history when she became the first Nigerian and African female musician to win the Best International Act at the BET Awards.

She defeated UK singers, Little Simz and Dave, to win the BET Award, which was her very first since the launch of her music career.

Last week, Tems got songwriting credit on Beyonce’s upcoming album, ‘Renaissance’.

A few hours after that, the RCA Records artiste delivered a soundtrack for one of 2022’s most anticipated movies, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

On Tuesday, it was announced that Tems had tied with one of Africa’s biggest acts, Wizkid as she emerged on the Billboard Hot 100 hit list.