From the infamous "Hot Girl Summer" catchphrase to the many viral dance crazes born by her
music, Megan Thee Stallion has swept the Internet with her assertive raps and fearless confidence.
But there's more to this stunner than even her "Hotties" might know.
This is the untold truth of one of music's most intriguing young stars.
Born Megan Jovon Ruth Pete on February 15th, 1995, Megan Thee Stallion was first inspired
to make music by her rapper mother, Holly Thomas.
She performed under the name Holly-Wood and brought Megan to the studio when she was a
child.
Megan told Vulture in 2019,
"My mom [was] the first female rapper I've ever known.
Really, I was ear to the door, thinking, 'Yeah, uh-huh, I’ma do that, too.'"
"Rapping was something that had been on my mind since I was a child"
Megan claims that she's been writing lyrics since way back when she was just 7 years old,
and was initially shy about sharing her talents.
When she finally began chasing a hip-hop career, her mom was surprised by the adult nature
of the lyrics coming out of her child's mouth.
Megan told the outlet,
"At first, she was a little taken aback, like, 'Megan, where did this come from?
Why are you talking like that?
I can't believe you.'"
"You know when you're little nobody says you can grow up and be a rapper"
But her mother finally came around.
And when Megan's own career began to take off, she brought her mom along for the ride,
telling HipHopDX in 2018,
"She quit her job, like her regular job, and now she's my full-time manager."
Megan stands at an impressive height, bragging on Twitter that she's quote, "5'10" and taller
in [her] heels."
Her nickname is also inspired by her height, with "stallion" being a Southern slang term
for a tall woman who looks good.
Megan told Houstonia,
"Since I was younger, probably about 15 or 16, I've always had the same body.
Older guys would always be like, 'Oh, you a stallion.'
[…] Ever since then everybody's just been calling me Stallion."
The "Savage" rapper also touched on the origin of her nickname while speaking to The Source,
explaining,
"Honestly, I call myself Thee Stallion because obviously, I'm tall and fine.
So men are immediately intimidated by the height anyway."
In 2019, her height became a Twitter trending topic, with her fans coming to her defense
after a troll insulted her stature in a since-deleted tweet.
Always unapologetically vocal on social media, Megan sent her own decisive message to the
haters, tweeting,
"Y'all be thinking y'all insulting me by calling me tall.
B---- I been tall all my life and still get any man I want."
Even while recording new music and performing live all across the U.S., Megan has stayed
in school, and is studying healthcare administration online at Texas Southern University.
In the past, Megan described the challenge of balancing her studies along with her music
career, telling The Source,
"I'm writing every day or thinking of treatments for videos.
Sometimes when I'm in class I'll be writing.
I'm for sure listening but I'm [...] writing a song at the same time."
When Megan graduates, she dreams of opening an assisted-living facility in Houston, Texas,
telling Vulture that she was inspired by watching her great-grandmother take care of her ailing
grandmother.
In a two-pronged effort to also provide jobs for her peers, she told The Source,
"What I want to do is open up those [assisted] living facilities and I want my classmates
to run it because you know when you get out of college it's kind of hard to find a job."
The classic Cyndi Lauper hit, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," doubles as a mantra for Megan
and her love life, with the rapper shooting down every dating rumor that tries to pop
up.
In November 2019, Megan's appearance at a Knicks basketball game stoked rumors that
she was secretly dating Tristan Thompson, the Cleveland Cavs player who was previously
dumped by Khloe Kardashian.
Megan tweeted,
"If I ain't claiming him he ain't mine.
[…] SIMPLE."
That same week, Megan was spotted in a club with R&B heartthrob Trey Songz, leading to
more buzz, this time linking these two performers together.
She quickly took to Twitter to deny the claims.
Then, Megan gave rapper G-Eazy a similar treatment when social media posts emerged showing them
cozying up together in February 2020.
She confirmed that they were not, in fact, romantically involved.
Megan is primarily attracted to men, as any fan who's listened to her music and heard
her lyrical innuendos, can attest.
But, in addition to rapping about her quote "freaky" intentions on her 2020 song "Captain
Hook," Page Six also linked her to Chris Brown's ex-girlfriend Indyamarie in June 2019, claiming
that the pair had been spotted together at an afterparty and had been leaving flirty
comments on each other's Instagram.
"We coulda already been going together, we coulda already been dating, this coulda been
a thing, but the b---- psycho"
Megan previously hinted at her fluid orientation in a 2018 interview on Angela Yee's Lip Service
podcast, when she said,
"I feel like everybody has always been a little gay, I think it was just more private then
than it is now."
Megan's college career hasn't always been a smooth ride.
In the past, the rapper landed in hot water with school administrators for her attention-grabbing
social media stunts.
Before transferring to Texas Southern University, Megan attended Houston's Prairie View A&M
University.
And she revealed the headache she faced when she was called into a disciplinary meeting
over the twerking videos she posted with her friends.
"I don't know when it happened, that sometimes people get offended by twerking"
Megan told Rolling Stone of the school situation,
"The ladies were super uppity.
They didn't want us to wear shorts.
[…] They [were] like, 'Is this what you guys want to be known for on campus?'
In my head, I was like, 'Yeah, we lit!'"
Fast-forward several years, and Megan's twerking has helped her achieve staggeringly impressive
levels of fame.
Megan's knees have even gone viral because of her twerking prowess.
And it's something the rapper is happy to brag about, too.
She told Genius,
"I love to shake my a--.
It's like one of my favorite things to do."
Megan's breakout year in 2019 was marred by tragedy when in March, she lost two family
members in the same month: her mother and her great-grandmother.
She shared in a since-deleted Instagram post,
"The best mom in the whole world.
The strongest woman on the planet.
I can't even put complete sentences together [right now].
R.I.P. mama."
Some fans were puzzled when Megan continued to perform in the month after the deaths,
with several naysayers taking to social media to question Megan's Howard University concert
that April.
Responding to one critical tweet, Megan wrote,
"Just [because] I'm not crying on social media doesn't mean I'm not hurt.
My mother was a very strong woman and she raised a strong woman."
Months later, Megan shared an end-of-the-year update about how the tragedy continued to
impact her, telling fans in a since-deleted Instagram video,
"This year I lost my mom and my [great-grandmother] in the same month.
Although all these positive things have been happening to me, and I've been trying to do
good, been trying to keep a smile on my face, stay strong, to stay happy for me and my other
grandmother and the rest of my family, it's pretty hard."
"I just knew that I wanted to be, I wanted to make her proud and like take it far"
Megan often refers to herself as a "hot girl" in her lyrics and on social media, where her
Twitter username is "Hot Girl Meg."
This famously evolved into her "Hot Girl Summer" catchphrase, which was hailed by the Internet
as the best meme of summer 2019, and eventually resulted in Megan collaborating on a song
of the same name with Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla Sign.
"We're still in the thick of Hot Girl Summer, right, like.
We extended the summer honestly.
We're gonna drive it until October, so don't even trip"
But before all that, Megan had already christened her fans as "Hotties," revealing that her
fanbase chose the name themselves in a social media poll in 2017.
She told Allure,
"I'm a hot girl.
It's only right that [my fans] be hotties."
Megan spent her 2019 "Hot Girl Summer" turning up with her fans at a series of "Hottie Parties,"
which gave fans the chance to party alongside the rapper in cities like Austin and New York.
Megan even offered financial assistance to her quote "healthcare Hotties" in an April
2020 tweet, inviting fans to share their virtual payment information for a chance to receive
some cash.
In addition to studying health administration, Megan makes it known to her fans that she
cares about the Earth, too, demonstrating her interest in saving the environment on
social media.
"I know it's a Hot Girl Summer, but can we talk about global warming"
In June 2019, she shared a list of tips on Twitter for her followers, including recycling,
using reusable water bottles, and eating less meat and dairy.
According to The Source, later that month, Megan continued her environmentally-friendly
efforts by organizing a beach cleanup in Santa Monica that drew hundreds of fans, promising
that she'd reward the attendees by pouring liquor in participants' mouths.
Megan was modest, though, when asked by The New York Times whether she'd call herself
an eco-activist, replying,
"I don't want to put [a title on it], I just live like this."
In addition to conquering the world of hip-hop, Megan also has her sights set on Hollywood.
The rapper is currently working on a horror movie screenplay explaining in a Vogue video
that the 1981 film Evil Dead is her favorite film of the genre, and that she always prefers
movies where you might even take the side of the villain.
As for her preferred collaborators for her eventual film project, Megan told Marie Claire
that she would love to collaborate with Get Out director, Jordan Peele.
She has no patience, however, for reboots of old horror movies, complaining to the outlet,
"How many times can you remake Halloween?"
Megan has already tried her hand at the genre, creating and starring in the 2019 Halloween-themed
YouTube series Megan Thee Stallion P.I. in HOTTIEWEEN.
If that's not all, her die-hard fans are still waiting for the release of her upcoming Fever:
Thee Movie, helmed by legendary director Hype Williams.
As of Spring 2020, the footage has yet to surface.
When she's not recording new music, educating her fans on environmental practices, studying
for school, or working on a script, Megan enjoys relaxing and watching anime.
Her passion for the Japanese animated stories even inspired one of her minor alter egos,
"Todoroki Tina," who wears a half red, half white wig like the character from My Hero
Academia.
"Blue Exorcist, that's what I have on my nails right now"
Megan told Crunchyroll in an April 2020 interview that she enjoys anime because of the themes
of perseverance and strength in the storytelling, adding,
"I like how you see a character, and it starts off, he's not really the strongest, he might
be a little weak, but he has to go through all this training.
You grow with the character.
You see all the trials and tribulations they go through.
[…] I apply that to my life a lot."
"I literally begin my day watching anime, and I end my day watching anime"
As for her love life, Megan says anime has also informed her standards in men.
She revealed,
"One of the main reasons I really like anime is once the main character has a love interest,
they are going so hard.
They'll do anything for their lady."
Megan Thee Stallion is a woman of many names.
Beyond releasing music as "Thee Stallion," she also nicknamed herself the "H-town Hottie,"
a nickname that nods to her upbringing in Houston, Texas.
There's also "Hot Girl Meg," her main social media username, a persona that she described
to Good Morning America as:
"My party girl, my college girl, you know we like to wild out a little bit sometimes,
so that's Hot Girl Meg."
Next is "Tina Snow," an additional name that Megan told The Source is a powerful character
that she takes on when she wants to transform herself into a boss.
She says of the name,
"'Tina Snow' is my alter ego and she's the pimp and the mack.
When people listen to me I want them to feel cool as hell.
I want them to get in their act when they're listening to Tina Snow."
In 2020, Megan unveiled her new Suga EP, accompanied by the introduction of a new alter ego of
the same name.
She explained to GMA,
"'Suga' is the new girl.
She's me letting everyone know that I'm not perfect, and I [mess] up sometimes, and [I'm]
going through it, but [I'm] getting through it.
[…] Nobody told you to be perfect, so stop listening to everybody."
"I'm gonna be me at the end of the day, you can take it or leave it, you can like it or
love it, whatever you wanna do, but I'ma still be me, you gonna be you"
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