This year's ceremony is best remembered for Tim Commerford, the bass player of Rage Against the Machine, climbing onto a piece of set scaffolding and refusing to come down after his band lost the award for Best Rock Video to Limp Bizkit.
Jim Carrey stated that he didn't want to be at the ceremony. However, he was told that he could introduce Eminem, whom is a big fan of.
This was Aaliyah's last appearance at the VMA awards before her death a year later in August 2001 in a plane crash in the Bahamas.