Featured Album
- 25 OCT 2024
- 31 Songs
- Beautiful Mistakes - Single · 2021
- MEGAN · 2023
- Neva Play (feat. RM of BTS) - Single · 2024
- WAP (feat. Megan Thee Stallion) - Single · 2020
- Thot Shit - Single · 2021
- Ehhthang Ehhthang · 2024
- Sweetest Pie - Single · 2022
- Good News · 2020
- Savage Remix (feat. Beyoncé) - Single · 2020
- Fever · 2019
Essential Albums
- Looking for a respite from the gloomy cycle that has been 2020? Then Megan Thee Stallion's got you covered. “I feel like I had to name my album Good News because we've been hearing so much bad news,” she tells Apple Music. “It's like, 'Okay, look, Megan Thee Stallion finally coming with the good news.'” The Houston rapper's long-awaited (and, yes, aptly titled) debut album is a distillation of her best qualities punched up for maximum impact. It's skilful and clever, but not at the expense of style and levity. Hope you've done your stretches. To start, she wastes no time addressing the controversy that had been trailing her, using the album's opening moments to put to rest any discussion about the shooting incident that left her wounded. It's brief, fiery and filled with haymakers, as Megan takes aim at her perpetrator (who remains nameless on wax—“I know you want the clout so I ain't saying y'all name,” she declares) and any naysayers. Never one to wallow, she spends the next 16 songs showcasing exactly why she's earned the respect and adoration of peers and fans alike. Songs like “Do It on the Tip” (featuring City Girls) and “Freaky Girls” (featuring SZA) are flirty, twerkable and emblematic of the 'girls just wanna have fun' mantra that seems to rule her world, while others like “Movie” and “What's New” are all attitude and take-no-prisoners displays of the lyrical dexterity that makes her freestyles so charming. Elsewhere, “Intercourse”, which features Jamaican artist Popcaan, and “Don't Rock Me to Sleep” find her outside of her comfort zone, the former a dancehall-inflected romp and the latter a sing-songy pop record. And for Meg, that kind of ambition felt right for the current moment. “When I started recording the songs for this album, I knew it sounded like album songs,” she says. “And I'm like, 'This is it. This is the time. Quarantine is happening, everybody's basically in the house. I have everybody's attention. Everybody wants new music and you can sit down and actually absorb it." By the time the album wraps up with a run of previously released singles (including, of course, her “Savage Remix” with Beyoncé), it feels like we’ve glimpsed past, present and future. The fan-favourite styles of old are now well-developed and existing alongside the possibilities of what may come next. Good News lives up to its name with ease—a tenacious effort that makes room for pleasure, dance and feeling good (and oneself) despite contrary circumstances. And, really, who among us couldn't use just a little more of that?
Albums
- 2022
Artist Playlists
- Real Hot Girl talk.
- Eye-popping mini-movies from Houston’s hip-hop queen.
- Get the full set list from the H-Town Hottie’s first headlining tour.
Compilations
- Drebae, Bodybangers & Lotus
- How COVID-19 inspired this body-positive anthem.
- It’s not your fault you’re, like, in love with this song.
- Megan Thee Stallion to UGK: Texas’ rap legacy takes center stage.
- Music and interviews from the women who ruled the charts in 2022.
- The artist talks about opening up on Traumazine.
- The Houston Hot Girl talks about opening up on 'Traumazine.'
- The Houston Hot Girl talks about about 'Traumazine.'
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About Megan Thee Stallion
The way she tells it, Megan Thee Stallion jumped on the mic only to impress a guy. She’d been writing, but she hadn’t really opened it up in public before. But this was college, and the boys were freestyling, and she’d had a couple of drinks. “I didn’t know how it was gonna turn out,” she told Apple Music in 2019. “I just knew I wasn’t finna look weak.” Rapper, yes: clever, commanding, funny, filthy. But she’s also become a kind of avatar for supreme self-confidence, the Hot Girl out to make Hotness broader, more inclusive, a state you embrace for yourself instead of having conferred on you by someone else. Born Megan Pete in 1995 and raised in Houston’s South Park neighbourhood, the Up Next honoree and 2020 Apple Music Awards Breakthrough Artist of the Year grew up on hardcore Southern stuff: Three 6 Mafia and UGK, Pimp C especially. Early cyphers went viral—the presence was ferocious, the flow precise. Her key tracks, from tunes like “Big Ole Freak” to the 2020 Cardi B collaboration juggernaut “WAP”, don’t just carry the torch for Houston rap, but also a legacy of trash talk that goes back to Lil’ Kim and The Notorious B.I.G.—characters so big, they read like comic books (Pete is, unsurprisingly, a lifelong anime fan). Like any great rapper, she can put the same few things to you a thousand different ways. “I’m sexy as fuck, and I’m freaky/Get whoever I want, eenie-meenie,” she raps on “HISS”, from 2024’s MEGAN. And in case Megan’s intentions weren’t clear, consider this, from “Captain Hook”: “I like to drink, and I like to have sex.” Weak? Doesn’t seem like an issue.
- HOMETOWN
- Houston, TX, United States
- BORN
- 15 February 1995
- GENRE
- Hip-Hop/Rap