Rema on His VMAs 2023 Nomination & Working with Selena Gomez

The Hollywood Reporter

Singer and rapper Rema talks to THR on the MTV VMAs 2023 red carpet and says working with his friend Selena Gomez was "huge."

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00:00 Congratulations, you're a nominee.

00:01 How does it feel?

00:03 I feel happy to be here.

00:04 I feel blessed.

00:05 It's a great honor.

00:06 Big shout out to the VMAs.

00:08 Talk to me about the energy in this room right now.

00:11 High energy, man.

00:15 I see amazing, beautiful people.

00:17 I see a lot of talented people.

00:19 It's a great honor to be around them.

00:21 Me, I'm just myself, you know, same beanie boy from Nigeria,

00:26 doing my thing here.

00:26 And I'm just happy to be here, most of all.

00:30 Collaborating with Selena Gomez on this song,

00:33 an incredible collaboration between you.

00:35 How did that come to be?

00:36 And how has that experience working with her been?

00:40 You know, it's a huge one for me.

00:43 It's a huge one.

00:44 First of all, just being friends and, you know,

00:47 taking it up to the music side of it.

00:51 It was really organic.

00:52 You know, I'm really glad that the rest of the world

00:54 connected with the collaboration, you know?

00:58 Because it's not just about--

01:00 it's just not-- it's not just about collaborating.

01:03 It's just collaborating with the right person.

01:05 And I feel like there was no one else meant for that remix

01:08 except Selena.

01:10 And I'm glad we, you know, we got to bless the world this

01:13 much.

01:14 And the achievements has been huge.

01:16 It's been amazing.

01:17 It's been a big one for the culture.

01:19 And I'm really glad about the doors

01:22 that that Afrobeat song has broken,

01:25 the doors that it has opened, the listeners that it

01:27 has attracted to Afrobeat.

01:29 You know, it's a blessing.

01:30 Yeah.

01:31 Anyone else you're hoping to meet tonight

01:33 for a possible collaboration?

01:37 I want to meet Meg.

01:39 I want to meet Meg.

01:40 I want to meet Nikki.

01:43 Who else?

01:44 Yeah.

01:45 We got to manifest that.

01:46 Yeah, I want to link up together with them.

01:48 Uh-huh.

01:49 Uh-huh.

01:50 Congratulations.

01:50 Have fun tonight.

01:51 Thank you.

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