Megan Thee Stallion [EDIT]

One Liner: Cocky, Nasty, Freaky Lady Rapper from Houston

Wikipedia Genre: Hip Hop
Home: Houston, Texas

Poster Position: 13

Weekend Two Only.

Thoughts:  Damn, man.  Weekend Two only?  That is the first one that bums me out.  This lady is absolutely bad ass.  Without researching anything, some of her beats call back to Too $hort beats, and it makes me think of her as a female Too $hort, dropping raunchy rhymes and funny put downs for everyone else.  Hell, her second most streamed track is named "Freak Nasty," and Too Short has songs like "I Need a Freak," "You Nasty," "Freaky Tales," and "Nasty Rhymes."  If she's not trying for homage, then she's crazy.  Here's that second-most streamed tune - "Freak Nasty," with 4.1 million streams.

"I look better than that ho that's why she made you block me." "I walk and I talk like a pimp 'cause I am." "You know I ain't come boy, if you has to ask me." This is some shit talking, bold and bragging good times.  

A festival with this one, Cardi B, and Lizzo?  If they put all three of those at the same stage for an afternoon the paramedics would need to just wait right there at the base of the stage to treat all of the twerk-exhaustion and dehydration for six straight hours.

You can tell from her lyrics that she's from Houston, she reps it several times.  Real name is Megan Pete - and I'm kind of entertained that she kept that relatively generic 70's name as part of her stage name.  "Thee Stallion" part comes from people referring to her as a stallion during childhood because she was tall (5'10").  Interesting tidbit from Wikipedia - her mother rapped under the name Holly-Wood and would bring young Megan to the studio as a kid to watch her recording sessions.  Her mom called Megan's eventual lyrics "too suggestive and ratchet," which is a pretty clear "no shit, Sherlock" for old mom there.  Megan went to Prairie View A&M and went viral after battling some male opponents in a video rap battle, although Wikipedia says she is still a student right now, at Texas Southern.

Two albums - 2017's relatively generic Make It Hot, and then 2018's ridiculously entertaining Tina Snow.  Tina Snow is her alter ego who is confident and sexually dominant.  She also apparently has another alter ego who is a college party girl, named Hot Girl Meg.  That shit is confusing and weird, but whatever.  Ghostface can call himself Tony Stark all the time, she can go with her weird aliases too.

No song from her first album shows up in her top ten most popular tracks, and I agree.  Her top song overall is "Big Ole Freak," with just over 7 million streams.

A few observations - (1) that beat uses a slice of the same beat LL Cool J used on "Loungin'" and I am very down with it (that apparently came from an Al B. Sure song, which I didn't know before); (2) I feel like someone important is just about to walk into my office as I watch these videos and I'm super gonna get fired on the spot for watching all these girls grind as Megan talks about liking to fuck in the mirror; and (3) I think if I actually tried to twerk for any appreciable amount of time, my thighs would cry for mercy and I would die, and as such, I actually respect the difficulty of the dancing here.

Other tracks on this album are also good - "Hot Girl," in which I'm pretty sure she calls her boobs "leches," and I love it.  That one also uses a Too $hort patented sound like a steel drum being hit.  Also, "Cocky AF," where the beat is slow and low, the boasts fly like lazy paper airplanes swirling through a boxing ring, and she talks about sucking something like a Capri Sun.  But I'm not especially into R&B stuff like "Cognac Queen."  I won't be there second weekend, so I know I won't see her, but what the hell, this would be a fun time.

[EDIT 5/22/19] - she threw out a new album last week, and its more of the same fun stuff.  I still think "Freak Nasty" is the gem of this catalog, but "W.A.B." and "Hood Rat Shit" work.  My only beef here is that several of the beats start to bleed together and seem too similar, but the beats are still pretty solidly little trap bangers.  Also a good Juicy J cameo on one of these tracks.