The 2018 MTV Video Music Awards found its way back to the Big Apple in NYC!!!

Cardi B took the lead with nominations racking in 12 total and also opened the show! Jennifer Lopez put on an AMAZING performance and also accepted the coveted Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award!!

This year, MTV presented it’s first ever PUSH Stage to highlight some of the artists nominated for PUSH Artist of the year!! Adam Blackstone, CEO of BASSic Black Entertainment, was Musical Director w/ the #BBE All-Star band!!!

Check out Adam and the band performing with PUSH Artist of the year winner
Hayley Kiyoko!!

Season 2 of “The Four” on Fox ended with a bang!! A lot of great competitors competed for a seat in one of “The Four” chairs, but only ONE came out on top!

Sharaya J, Leah Jenea, James Graham, and Whitney Reign were the top FOUR finalists to beat out all the rest of the competition over 8 episodes!!! In the end, it was James Graham that came out on top as the winner of Season 2!!

For the 2nd season in a row, Adam Blackstone, CEO of BASSic Black Entertainment, and the #BBE All-Star band made all the contestants performance come alive!! Adam was also Executive Music Producer for the show!!

Check out some pics and videos of the performances below!!

Singer/Songwriter and #BBE Client, Camila Cabello, performs her hit “Havana” LIVE on Good Morning America’s Summer Concert Series!!!
Thank you to our #BBE band for putting on an AMAZING performance!!

Marcus Kincy
Edwin Carranza
Luke Kennedy Aiono
Darryl “Lil Man” Howell

Congratulations to Eminem for an AMAZING European Summer Tour with #BBE CEO Adam Blackstone as Musical Director and the #BBE band!!

Monte Neuble
Monty Reynolds
Ray Holloman
Ebony Joi
Aaron Draper
EZ Ingram
Devin Webster
String Candy Music
DJ Alchemist

Check out a few pictures and fan video from the tour below!!

CONGRATULATIONS to BASSic BLACK ENTERTAINMENT CEO ADAM BLACKSTONE ON HIS 1ST EMMY NOMINATION!!!

LOS ANGELES, July 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Adam Blackstone, known as the musical director to Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Janet Jackson, Maroon 5, Eminem, Drake and dozens of others A-list artists, has been nominated for his first Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Direction for Super Bowl LII Halftime Show Starring Justin Timberlake.  Blackstone’s musical direction of twelve songs, tightly woven into the Super Bowl’s halftime, was viewed by 66,000 plus fans packed into the U.S. Bank Stadium and 110 million watching on television and online. “Being nominated for an Emmy is an amazing and humbling experience. As an artist you strive for excellence everyday, and it’s gratifying and exciting when your peers recognize it,” said Blackstone.

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