The rappers-turned-Nashville-stars delivered a charismatic performance of their collab from Post’s F-1 Trillion album

SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH - APRIL 29: Jelly Roll and Post Malone perform onstage during Post Malone Presents: The BIG ASS Stadium Tour Kick Off at Rice Eccles Stadium on April 29, 2025 in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Live Nation)

Post Malone and Jelly Roll performed their duet “Losers” for the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night. The rappers-turned-Nashville stars first recorded the song for Malone’s country album, F-1 Trillion, released last year.

The performance was broadcast from their live performance in Germany, where Malone wore a Jalen Tolbert Dallas Cowboys jersey and Jelly Roll rocked a black Bass Pro Shops trucker hat. As he bopped around the stage, Jelly threw his fingers up in L-shapes, representing for the titular “Losers” on the track – “the ones like you and the ones like me,” they sang. Fireworks blasted above as the chummy pair wrapped up the song, looking into each other’s eyes before Jelly bowed to Malone and shouted, “Thank you, VMAs!”

The VMAs weren’t the first time the country newbies performed “Losers,” however. This past summer, they treated fans in cities including Orlando, Seattle, and Foxborough, Massachusetts, to the song during stops on Malone’s headlining Big Ass Stadium Tour. The tour wrapped up in San Francisco, where Malone suggested that he and Jelly Roll may hit the road together again in 2026.

“I knew in the bottom of my heart there was only one motherfucker I wanted to do this with,” Malone said of touring with Jelly while onstage in San Francisco. “And I learned as of a couple of days ago we get to go out and do this shit next fucking summer, too, ladies and gentlemen.”

This year, the VMAs introduced a new category, Best Country, which included Jelly Roll and his video for “Liar” among the nominees. Other contenders in the Country field included Chris Stapleton, Cody Johnson with Carrie Underwood, Lainey Wilson, Megan Moroney, and Morgan Wallen. Ultimately,
Moroney took home the prize.

The 2025 MTV Video Music Awards, hosted by LL Cool J, is taking place at the UBS Arena in New York. Videos by Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars, Rosé & Bruno Mars, Sabrina Carpenter, and the Weeknd with Playboi Carti are nominated for Video of the Year.