Megan Thee Stallion always knew she wanted to be a rapper, but she didn’t tell her mother, a former rapper, about her dream until she became an adult.
Now, Meg is not only a superstar rapper; she’s also the first rapper to be on the cover of the “Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, ” and she sat down with former cover model Tyra Banks to discuss her lifelong dream and her rise to fame.
“I would look at music videos, and I would see the girls in the videos, and I’m not even looking at the rapper,” she admitted. “I’m looking at the girls in the videos. And I’m like, ‘Girl, look at her moving.’ So I’m in front of the TV. [Laughs] I’m in front of the TV like, ‘Yes! I could do this!’ And then I started figuring out, ‘No, wait, I want to talk. I want to be the person who is giving the call to action. I want to be the person who is saying these words.’ So I’m, like, I don’t know what I want to do when I grow up, but I knew I wanted to entertain everybody,” the 26-year-old hot girl recalled.
Meg credited her late mother, Holly Thomas, who went by the rap name “Holly Wood,” with influencing her to become a rapper.
“I wanted to be perfect to her,” Meg told Tyra. “I was practicing since I was, like, 7. And then when I got in high school, I was like, ‘No, I’m not gonna tell her yet.’ But she would have these CDs laying around the house — like, instrumentals — and I would take ’em in my room, and I would take the beats and write to ’em in my room. And she would say, ‘Megan, have you seen my CDs?’ And I was like, ‘No. What are you talking about?'”
Meg revealed that she didn’t tell her mama about her passion for music until she got into college.
“So I finally came to her. I might have been 20, and I was like, ‘I can rap.’ And she was like, ‘No, you can’t.’ And I was like, ‘Yes, I can.’ And she was like, ‘Let me hear it,'” Meg explained. “And I was like, ‘OK Mama, don’t whoop me, but I’m ’bout to curse, OK?’ So I started going off, and I’m cursing, and she’s like [gasps], ‘Where did you learn all those words?!’ …. And she said, ‘You’re not coming out until you’re 21.'”
The now three-time Grammy award winner released her first single, “Like A Stallion,” at the age of 21 after listening to mama, and now the rest is history.
