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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