apper WALE and his group UCB have signed on as the house band for the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
Wale will collaborate live with The All-American Rejects and Pitbull at the prizegiving in New York on 13 September (09).
The rapper performed at the 2007 VMAs, alongside DJ Mark Ronson, as an unsigned act. He has since signed to Ronson’s Allido Records label.
Late DJ Adam Goldstein and Travis Barker’s TRV$DJAM act was the house band at last year’s (08) Video Music Awards.