Mayor Ras J. Baraka Welcomes The 2023 MTV Video Music Awards Back To Newark
The Lauryn Hill collaborator calls his city 'America's turntable for harmonic expression.' The 2023 MTV Video Music Awards will return to Newark, N...
The Lauryn Hill collaborator calls his city 'America's turntable for harmonic expression.' The 2023 MTV Video Music Awards will return to Newark, New Jersey's Prudential Center on Tuesday, September 12. Newark will host the annual event for the third time in five years. 'Awarding Newark as host city for the 2023 VMAs echoes not only our selection by MTV in 2022 and 2019, but also reverberates our city's historic vibe as a hotbed of musical genius,' says Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka. The city's 40th leader adds, 'Starting with America's first known composer in 1759, through the Jazz explosion in the 1920s, and up to today's full spectrum of genres from Hip Hop to Opera, Newark has long served as America's turntable for harmonic expression.