Before Megan Thee Stallion would “go crazy,” and “naturally” “make a bag” doing
what she’s “good at”
Before she signed to 300 Entertainment becoming the first female rapper on the label
Before she would collab with Wale and MoneyBag Yo while getting a cosign from Missy Elliot
And if that wasn’t impressive enough, she did all that WHILE getting her college degree.
Megan Thee Stallion grew up with rap in her blood. Her Mom was actually a rapper… And
while we couldn’t find any online recordings of her old songs, her bars live on through
her daughter. The future of rap is female and to all of you dudes out there, all I have
to say is, you better step your bars up because these women are out-rapping all of you! Megan’s
fans are called the Hotties and I’m not gonna lie, after listening to the music and
hearing her rap, I’m a hot boy. But as confident as she is now, she wasn’t always ready to
share her music with the world. At first Megan was too nervous to rap for her mom, let alone
her classmates in high school. And at that time, Megan’s dream was a long way from
the mic, in fact, she wanted to have a career more like Dr. Miami than Dr. Dre… But we’ll
get into all of that in this video!
What’s going on good people in the comment section? I hope you’re having one Hecht
of a day, my name is Jeremy THEE Hecht, here for you today on Before They Were Famous as
we take you through the life and career of H-Town’s finest, Megan THEE Stallion. This
is the show where we document the journey of your favorite entertainers in hopes of
inspiring you and showing you that you can reach your goals too. If you’re new here,
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artists on this channel like Saweetie and Lil TJay so be sure to check those out after
you finish watching this one. This video is brought to you by our good friends over at
Kandy Pens, shout out to them. And, I’ve got a question for you that you’ll have
to stick around until the end of the video to find out the answer to:
And Today’s question is:
What are some of Megan’s career goals for herself after rap?
Alright, let’s get into it:
The Stallion, Aka Hot Girl Meg, Aka Tina Snow Aka Meg, Aka Megan ThEE Stallion
was born Megan Pete on February 15th, 1995 in Houston Texas. Even though her birthday
is the day before Valentine’s day, fellas, don’t get it twisted, Megan still expects
you to buy gifts for her on both days. Megan’s mom Holly actually used to be a rapper going
by the name Holly Wood. She even had some local radio stations playing her music in
the 80’s and she would take Megan to the studio with her when she was just a child.
While she thought Megan was sitting with her coloring books in the waiting room doing normal
kid things, in reality, a young Megan had her ear glued to the studio door, paying attention
to mom’s bars. Megan would steal her mom’s beat CD’s and write her own verses when
she was as young as 7. But Megan wasn’t always the confident woman you see today,
in elementary school, she was picked on. She never told anyone, until one day in the second
grade she told her mom. Like the classic Kevin Hart standup, her mom gave her the green light
to go curse everyone out the next day… At school. So she went to school and turned up
on all of her bullies. And from there, she knew her worth and never looked back. She
continued to write raps all throughout high school but didn’t tell anyone she could
spit, and she was still shy in one aspect of her life… about her rapping abilities.
In terms of advice to her younger self, she told DJ Booth:
“I wish I would’ve told somebody that I could rap earlier. Maybe senior year of
high school, I would’ve started rapping then. I would’ve just told myself: ‘Don’t
be so shy. Let people know you go hard. Go 'head, get out there.”
And she tells her fans not to hide their talents:
“Definitely go for it, because you don’t wanna live your whole life regretting that
you didn’t do what you love to do in the first place.”
Reminds me of when J. Cole said “if they don’t know your dreams, then they can’t
shoot ‘em down.”
Megan’s grandmother was a teacher and emphasized the importance of education in her life from
an early age. So her sights were not always set on being a rapper. In fact, at first she
wanted to be a plastic surgeon. Megan has always been really motivated by making other
people feel their best and like their most confident selves. But she told Power 105:
“So once I realized how much schooling that took and blood and guts and all that, I was
like, uh, maybe I don’t want to do that.”
And she may be the Cognac Queen now, but in high school she said the first time she got
drunk, after she took 10 shots, she got up, took two step and was immediately sitting
back down, this time, on the ground. I know that feeling, when you’re sitting for a
long time and drinking and you don’t realize how much it’s hit you until you stand up.
Yeah… I feel you Meg.
When she was 18 at a kickback, some of the guys there were freestyling while she watched
from the sidelines. Finally, Megan got the confidence to say “Hey, I rap too.” After some
doubt from the dudes there, she started spitting and everyone was impressed.
Her favorite rappers are Biggie, Tupac, Lil Kim and 3-6 Mafia. And her alter ego is Tina
Snow, which she says is inspired by Pimp C’s alter ego, Tony Snow. Pimp C was a huge inspiration
for Megan and made her feel more confident, and she wants to inspire people to feel the
same. She kept thinking how dope it would sound if a female rapper rapped the same lyrics
as some of her favorite male artists. So, she made the music that she wanted to hear
growing up.
In terms of her rap name, she said that one day when she was 15, some dude called her
a Stallion. She went and asked her uncle what it meant and she found out it’s just slang
for a tall girl whose pretty and has certain features.
One day, when she was 18, she finally got the courage to do the hardest thing in her
rap career yet, she told her mom that she could rap. Just imagine rapping for a parent
who is also a rapper, that’s got to be nerve racking. Her mom didn’t believe her
at first. But after spitting her first verse for her, Megan’s mom was impressed. She
was not however, impressed with the cursing in her lyrics and told her that she had to
wait until she was 21 to come out with vulgar songs like that! She said that when she first
started rapping, it was all very vulgar and sexual. And no mom really wants to hear their
daughter rapping about their love below. Megan is a woman of her word and waited until she
was 21 before she dropped her first song. Her mom became her manager and assistant,
helping her with her career and got to see her daughter reach heights that she was never
able to attain musically herself. But in tragic timing, just as Megan started to blow up,
her mother passed away from a brain tumor. I just want to take a moment to send my sincerest
condolences to Megan and her family. It seemed like they were incredibly close so I can’t
even imagine what she’s going through, especially since she is just starting to see true success
and is about to graduate, so rest in peace.
But before all of that, after deciding that becoming a plastic surgeon wasn’t the career
for her, Megan’s next dream was to be a nurse. Her original major at Texas Southern
University, where she is attending college and graduating in the coming months, was nursing.
But after taking a couple of classes, she realized how boring it was and knew that if
she wasn’t motivated to learn, then she wouldn’t be successful in that field. But
she was interested in the hospital, and decided that being an administrator would be more
in line with her interests. She loves the business side of things, and she is graduating
this year with a degree in health administration!
Her goal is to open up assisted living facilities
around her hometown. Not only to help out people in need of assistance, but also so
that she can hire her college classmates to work there.
Is it just me or is it getting legitimately smokey in here…?
Megan began to make a name for herself online with her music when she appeared in a cypher
with Houston based rappers. Megan came in over Drake’s 4pm in Calabasas beat and her
bars started to catch the attention of some influential people within the Houston rap scene.
Then she uploaded “Stalli Freestlye” onto her YouTube channel a couple months later,
and her confidence and ability to really rap, quickly garnered her a million views and the
video continued to blow up through Instagram and YouTube.
Megan signed with 1501, which is an independent label out of Houston. She can be seen rocking
a 1501 chain around her neck, repping the people who first gave her a chance to take
her talents to the next level. She dropped her first mixtape Rich Ratchet and an EP called
Make it Hot, with the Tina Snow Mixtape coming shortly afterwards, an ode to her favorite
rapper Pimp C, and that landed at number 11 on the iTunes hip-hop charts.
Although she said that she loves Houston, she wanted to be known worldwide and wanted
to break her name into other cities across the US.
And eventually her talents were spotted by record label 300 entertainment. The label
boasts talents like Tee Grizzley, Shy Glizzy and Young Thug. She was flown out to New York
from Houston where she was heading to meet with the label reps. She told Rolling Stone:
“I was nervous all day. ‘Is this really going to happen? Am I really about to be signed?’”
But when she got there, balloons, a bottle of Hennessy and a contract for her to sign
were waiting for her, and all of the nerves went away.
She became the first female rapper to sign to the label, and I have a feeling that she
won’t be the last.
“Just coming out of Houston and getting signed to something that is in New York,
that’s a big deal for me, and a big deal for a female artist,”
At first, Megan didn’t have a problem balancing school and work but now that she is popping
out here, her friends send her the homework assignments that she misses when she has to
be on the road for shows or interviews. Megan says that she hears people whisper “is that
Megan?” while she is walking around campus now.
She told Billboard that only one of her professors knows that she is a rap superstar:
“She followed me on Instagram and when I came to class she was like “Megan, so you
got a little alter ego!” I was like, “Oh my god. Don't follow me!”
In the future, she hopes to do a song with fellow H-Town legend, Queen Bey. She may not
have worked with Beyonce just yet, but her sister Solange was dancing to one of her songs.
So she is definitely getting closer to her dreams.
Most recently, her song Big Ole Freak is blowing up online and the Big Ole Freak challenge
definitely has a lot of people taking notice:
Megan takes her writing very seriously and eventually says that she wants to write songs
for RnB singers. And she even wants to write scary movies one day!
And there is the answer to the question from the beginning of the video!
But as for the rest of the story, well, we’ll have to wait and see because this is before
they were famous. As always, I’m Jeremy Hecht for Before They Were Famous. Let us
know who to cover next in the comments down below, follow me on Insta, link below! Dream
Good, Live Better, I hope you have one hecht of a day, that was a very long outro, and
I'll see you in the next video.