Megan Thee Stallion earned two number-one songs on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2020 with her single "Savage Remix" (featuring Beyoncé) and her guest appearance on Cardi B's single "WAP". The former won two Grammy Awards—Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song—while the latter became her first number-one song in several international markets, including becoming the inaugural number-one on the Billboard Global 200. Her debut studio album, Good News (2020), was met with critical and commercial success—reaching number two on the Billboard 200. It spawned the single "Body", which made her the first female act to release three number-one songs on the Streaming Songs chart within a year. Her compilation album Something for Thee Hotties (2021) peaked at number five on the Billboard 200 and spawned the Billboard Hot 100-top 20 single "Thot Shit", which received a Grammy Award nomination. Her 2022 single "Sweetest Pie" (with Dua Lipa) was met with similar success and preceded the release of her second studio album Traumazine (2022), which peaked at number four on the Billboard 200. In 2024, her single "Hiss" from her third studio album Megan (2024) became her first solo song to top the Billboard Hot 100 and made her the first solo female rapper to debut atop the BillboardGlobal 200 chart.
In July 2020, Megan Thee Stallion was shot in the foot by Canadian rapper Tory Lanez in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. The shooting was a major thematic element of her debut album Good News. In December 2022, Lanez was convicted on all counts in relation to the attack on her. After the shooting trial and following a prolonged legal dispute with her record label, Megan Thee Stallion parted ways with 1501 and 300 Entertainment in 2023 in favor of a career as an independent artist.
Megan Jovon Ruth Pete[1] was born on February 15, 1995[2] in San Antonio, Texas; her mother, Holly Thomas,[3] immediately moved to Houstonafter her birth.[4] Thomas rapped under the name "Holly-Wood" and brought her daughter with her to recording sessions instead of putting her in daycare.[3] Pete grew up in the South Parkneighborhood of Houston[5] and moved with her mother to Pearland at age 14, where she lived until she was 18.[3] Pete began writing raps at age 14.[6] When she eventually showed Thomas her rapping skills at age 18, Thomas required that Pete wait until she was 21 to pursue rapping as a career.[7] Her mother commented that her lyrics were too sexually suggestive for her young age.[8]Pete attended Pearland High School[1] and graduated in 2013.[9] Her father died during her freshman year of high school.[1]
In 2013, while Pete was a freshman at Prairie View A&M University, she began uploading videos of herself freestyling on social media.[5] A clip of her battling against male opponents in a "cypher" went viral. The exposure helped her gain a larger digital presence and following on social media.[5][6][7][10] She garnered fans by posting her freestyles on her Instagram while working at a Bombshells to support herself as a college student. Pete refers to her fans as "hotties" and credits her 'hyperactive' fan base for her early success.[11][12] After taking time off from school to pursue music, she returned home resuming her studies at Texas Southern University. She graduated on December 11, 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in health administration.[7][13]
Pete adopted the stage name "Megan Thee Stallion" after she was called a "stallion" during her adolescence due to her height (5 ft 10 in (178 cm))[7] and "thicc" body frame;[10]voluptuous, statuesque women in the southern United States are sometimes colloquially called "stallions".[1]
Career
2016–2017: Early beginnings
In 2016, Megan Thee Stallion released her first single "Like a Stallion".[14][15] This was followed by the small SoundCloud-exclusive mixtapes Rich Ratchet later that year,[16] and Megan Mix in 2017.[17][18] In September 2017, Megan Thee Stallion made her professional solo debut with the commercially released EP Make It Hot.[19] The EP's 2017 single "Last Week in HTx" became her most successful single during this time, amassing several million views on YouTube.[19][20] In 2017, Megan Thee Stallion released the song "Stalli (Freestyle)", as a rework of late musician XXXTentacion's "Look at Me!".[6][19][21]
Around this time, Megan Thee Stallion auditioned to be a cast member on Love & Hip Hop: Houston;[22] however, the proposed spin-off of the Love & Hip Hop franchise was postponed indefinitely in June 2016.[23]
2018–2019: Tina Snow and Fever
Megan Thee Stallion in 2019
In early 2018, Megan Thee Stallion signed with 1501 Certified Entertainment, an independent label in Houston run by T. Farris[5] and owned by former baseball player Carl Crawford.[1] After becoming the first female rapper to be signed to the label,[24] she performed at SXSW Festival in March 2018.[25] In June that year, Megan Thee Stallion released a 10-song extended play titled Tina Snow under the label.[24] The EP was named after her alter ego, "Tina Snow", who she describes as "a more raw version" of herself.[7]Tina Snow was mainly produced by 1501 in-house producer LilJuMadeDaBeat, and was positively received by critics. Eric Torres of Pitchfork wrote: "she provided plenty of freak anthems with quotable lyrics to wield against ain't-shit men".[26]She stated in an interview with Mic that she is not afraid to talk about sexuality, nor does she feel boxed-in to either the "intelligent" or "freak" dichotomy.[27] Nandi Howard of The Faderreferred to her ability to rap with "electrifying pace and precision".[5] In November 2018, Megan Thee Stallion announced that she had signed with 300 Entertainment, making her the first woman to be signed by the label.[28] It was during this time that she was scheduled to support Australian rapper Iggy Azalea on her planned Bad Girls Tour;[29] however, the tour was later cancelled due to low ticket sales.[30]
On January 22, 2019, Megan Thee Stallion released "Big Ole Freak" as a single fromTina Snow, also filming a music video for the track.[31]The single "Is It Love This Time" is sampled throughout the track.[24]On April 15, "Big Ole Freak" charted at number 99 on theBillboard Hot 100, effectively giving Megan Thee Stallion her first chart entry,[32]with it later peaking at number 65.[33]Fever, her secondmixtape, was released on May 17, 2019.[34]The album received critical acclaim and landed on several year-end critic's lists, withPapercalling it the best album of 2019.[35]Taylor Crumpton ofPitchforkrated the album 8/10 and wrote in a review, "Megan's delivery of perfectly executed bars are comparable to successions from a fully automatic machine gun; a carefully studied aim of fiery stanzas that could only be carried by a rapper with extensive knowledge of the genre's early practices of battle rap."[36]On May 21, 2019, she released the music video for the opening album track "Realer", which was inspired by theblaxploitationfilm style.[37]On June 20, 2019, she was announced as one of eleven artists included in the 12th edition ofXXL's "Freshman Class".[38]Her freestyle in the cypher was praised by music critics.[39]In July 2019,Chance The Rapperreleased his debut studio albumThe Big Day, with Megan Thee Stallion featured on the track "Handsome".[40]On August 2, 2019,A Black Lady Sketch Showpremiered onHBO; the show uses Megan Thee Stallion's song "Hot Girl" in the opening title sequence.[41][42]
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