The 17 Most Important Things That Happened At The Billboard Music Awards

2. Taylor Swift fully peaked, by winning everything and wearing this jumpsuit:

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(Which kind of reminded us of this classic Toni Braxton look.)

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3. "Fancy"won Top Rap Song. Iggy Azalea started talking about writing it, and Charli XCX was like...

"When I wrote this song..." pic.twitter.com/zlBJJNWlG3
— Chamonille (@chamonille) May 18, 2015

5. Everyone thought this person was Nicki Minaj. (It's actually Dencia, a singer and designer.)

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6. Mariah Carey performed...

7. ...and J.Lo reacted like this:

J. Lo has some thoughts about Mariah. pic.twitter.com/obrzvN0EjE
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) May 18, 2015

Much better Mariah/JLo beef gif: pic.twitter.com/pw3CKwkaIl
— Rich Juzwiak (@RichJuz) May 18, 2015

8. Host Chrissy Teigen tripped an innocent woman by mistake.

9. Wiz Khalifa went barefoot to perform America's No. 1 song, "See You Again."

This was nice and everything and I love that song, but.. WHY WAS WIZ BAREFOOT pic.twitter.com/wD8KsZX6LD
— ️ (@superheroliamm) May 18, 2015

10. While Charlie Puth almost busted a vein:

pic.twitter.com/tctYcpzVa9
— Brian McManus (@mcguilloteen) May 18, 2015

12. Sam Smith beat Drake for Top Male Artist. Neither showed at the ceremony, but Sam sent this message to Nicki Minaj during his pre-recorded acceptance speech:

Sam Smith's message to Nicki. #BBMAs https://t.co/66SXHxTIh8
— Nicki Minaj News (@NickiWorldNews) May 18, 2015

13. Then Nicki Minaj slayed her performance of "Hey Mama."

.@NICKIMINAJ is a goddess 🙏🔥 #BBMAs pic.twitter.com/WXiaxGayfO
— The FADER (@thefader) May 18, 2015

14. Meek noticed, and shouted out his girl:

There she go! 🙌
— Meek Mill (@MeekMill) May 18, 2015

(Taylor also enjoyed it.)

Because the world can ALWAYS use another @taylorswift13 dancing GIF. #BBMAs pic.twitter.com/Id91R8Cln3
— BillboardMusicAwards (@OfficialBBMAs) May 18, 2015

15. Then there was a tough stretch...

When you learn imagine dragons are covering stand by me pic.twitter.com/JvNV4Hp6fV
— steven j. horowitz (@speriod) May 18, 2015

16. ...while we waited for Kanye to perform.

😐😐😐 pic.twitter.com/MzgUNSAzIg
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) May 18, 2015

17. But when he finally closed the show with "All Day" and "Black Skinhead," his performance was heavily censored. WTF?

pic.twitter.com/XO8MaPTu3N
— The FADER (@thefader) May 18, 2015

.@OfficialBBMAs trash for censoring YEEZUS
— Desus Nice (@desusnice) May 18, 2015

The 17 Most Important Things That Happened At The Billboard Music Awards

More like the Taylor Swift Music Awards.

2. Taylor Swift fully peaked, by winning everything and wearing this jumpsuit:

(Which kind of reminded us of this classic Toni Braxton look.)

3. "Fancy"won Top Rap Song. Iggy Azalea started talking about writing it, and Charli XCX was like...

5. Everyone thought this person was Nicki Minaj. (It's actually Dencia, a singer and designer.)

6. Mariah Carey performed...

7. ...and J.Lo reacted like this:

8. Host Chrissy Teigen tripped an innocent woman by mistake.

9. Wiz Khalifa went barefoot to perform America's No. 1 song, "See You Again."

10. While Charlie Puth almost busted a vein:

12. Sam Smith beat Drake for Top Male Artist. Neither showed at the ceremony, but Sam sent this message to Nicki Minaj during his pre-recorded acceptance speech:

13. Then Nicki Minaj slayed her performance of "Hey Mama."

14. Meek noticed, and shouted out his girl:

(Taylor also enjoyed it.)

15. Then there was a tough stretch...

16. ...while we waited for Kanye to perform.

17. But when he finally closed the show with "All Day" and "Black Skinhead," his performance was heavily censored. WTF?

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