"To come back now and host the VMAs, all these years later, that's a full-circle moment for me," Snoop said in a statement.
Snoop Dogg speaks onstage at the Universal Pictures and Focus Features presentation at The Dolby Colosseum at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of Cinema United, on April 15, 2026 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Snoop Dogg is set to host the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards as the show returns to the West Coast for the first time in nine years. Snoop is a 13-time VMAs nominee, having won three awards.
“MTV and the VMAs have been part of my story since the beginning,” Snoop says in a statement. “Some of the biggest moments of my career happened on that stage and on MTV – they gave hip-hop a place to be loud, fearless and seen by the whole world. So to come back now and host the VMAs, all these years later, that’s a full-circle moment for me. And doing it with my brother Van Toffler [the show’s producer] makes it even more special. Van was there during those early MTV days when we were changing the culture in real time, and we’ve got a whole lot of history together. Now we get to make some new history. The VMAs have always been about those moments you don’t forget – and trust me, we’re gonna give y’all a few more. See you at the VMAs.”
