Lenny Kravitz Performs ‘Human’ and ‘Fly Away’ With Quavo at 2024 VMAs

Rock and roll icon Lenny Kravitz carried out a ripping three-song medley on the MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday (Sept. 11).

Launched by British singer-songwriter Suki Waterhouse — who referred to as him a “rock God with a sound fully his personal” — Kravitz began his set together with his signature 1993 basic “Are You Gonna Go My Manner,” carrying a white boa and a barely-there silver-fringe vest. He then segued seamlessly into his disco-tinged 2024 single “Human,” flanked by backing dancers and going back-to-back together with his open-vested co-guitarist.

Kravitz ended the medley with a efficiency of “Fly,” the Quavo-featuring reinvention of his enormous 1998 hit “Fly Away” that he initially dropped in Might. The trap-ified redo had everybody within the crowd from Publish Malone to Paris Hilton singing alongside to the still-unforgettable authentic refrain.

Kravitz already took house a moonperson within the Video Music Awards’ preshow, profitable finest rock for “Human.” (He had been nominated within the class thrice beforehand, again when it was nonetheless referred to as “finest rock video,” however had not gained it earlier than.) It was his second general win on the awards, following his taking house finest male video on the 1993 awards for “Are You Gonna Go My Manner” — which he additionally carried out at that yr’s ceremonies in his VMAs stage debut, with assist from legendary Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones.

Kravitz’s historical past on the Video Music Awards additionally features a pair of notable appearances in the course of the 1998 VMAs. He introduced finest rock video to Aerosmith for his or her “Pink,” together with Gwen Stefani (then of No Doubt), and performed guitar with Madonna for her efficiency of “Ray of Gentle” — that yr’s winner for video of the yr.