Megan Thee Stallion brings the flames to Rolling Stone‘s aptly titled Hot Issue.
The rapper and recent graduate blazes the publication in a stunning photoshoot lensed by Ramona Rosales.
As ever with the Hot Girl Coach, though, there’s much more than just pretty aesthetic on offer.
For, in her accompanying interview feature, she opens up in earnest about her forthcoming album – which includes a collaboration with Future and may not be the endless turn-up folk may think – as well as some of the harder times she’s faced.
Of the latter, the most notable is allegedly being shot by Tory Lanez – who is set to go on trial in September.
Head below for pics and piercing quotes from Megan The Stallion…
On Her New Album:
“I want to take you through so many different emotions. At first you was twerking, now you might be crying.”
Excerpt on Future Collaboration:
“This song has a feature,” Megan says before Source cues up a new track called “Pressurelicious.” It goes. The beat is dark and intense, and Megan’s initial staccato raps are cool and sexy as she announces “I’m stompin’ on ho’s so motherf*ckin’ hard I’m knockin’ out Mario tokens!” Source, jamming, throws an uppercut into the air when a digital chime punctuates the bar. Soon, Megan is joined on the song by Future, and the pair start trading bars.
Future is sometimes described as romantically toxic, but he’s one of Megan’s favorite rappers. “He just so f*cking ratchet!” she says with a big laugh. “He is unapologetically himself. I appreciate that about anybody who gets up and has to do anything in the public eye. Anybody who has to read about their life online every day and deal with so many energies and can put it out into their music and do it gracefully, I feel like you deserve your flowers.”
On The Immediate Aftermath of the July 2020 Incident With Tory Lanez:
“What nobody knows is, I had to get the surgery the same night. I stayed in the hospital in California for maybe four days. Then I was in New York for a while. Both of my legs wrapped up. I could not walk. I still have bullet fragments in my feet right now. I was very scared that I was not able to be Megan Thee Stallion no more. And I was f*cked up.
I feel shame, a little bit, because even after he shot me, I still was thinking about everybody else in the car. I thought everybody in the car was my friend, [and] the whole time, that’s not how they thought of me. That’s what really hurts.”
On Her Feelings Towards Tory Lanez:
“I want him to go to jail. I want him to go under the jail.
I feel like you’ve already tried to break me enough. You’ve already shot me. So, why are you dragging it out like this? Like, what else? Have you hated me this much the whole time and I didn’t see it?’”
Excerpt On The Betrayal She Felt:
The incident, Megan implies, was a betrayal on two fronts. Megan claims that Harris met with Lanez at a hotel less than two days after the shooting. “I’m like, ‘Kelsey, as my best friend, why would you meet up with the person you saw shoot your best friend?’” Megan tells me. “She said, ‘Megan, y’all wasn’t answering my calls. My back was against the wall. I didn’t know what to do.’ What the f*ck do you mean your back is against the wall? You’re the only person in this situation that would clear this up for me.
This girl told me out her mouth, ‘He told me, “Oh, thank you for not saying nothing. Now let me invest in your business. Let me do this. Let me do that.”’ And all I know was, from that day on, she never said nothing else about the whole situation online.” (Harris did not respond to a request for comment; Lanez’s representative did not respond on the record to a request for comment on this allegation.)
On Boyfriend Pardi:
I feel like he’s so good. And he feels like I’m so good. There are always instrumentals playing. So if I can hear him rapping, I’ll be like, ‘OK, I’m going to do better than that.’ Or if he likes the beat that I’m playing, he’ll be like, ‘Hey, let me get that beat.’ We sharpen each other.
I appreciate him for loving on me even when I don’t feel like I love me. I have a lot of anxiety, and I know I’m probably depressed on some level. I’ll be like, ‘Damn, you really sticking through it? I really want to be good for you because I’m trying to be good for myself.’ But I just . . . I don’t know. Right now, I really don’t know, because sometimes I don’t feel good about me. So I feel like it’s hard to be in a relationship when you are not loving on yourself right.”
On Navigating Lies & Online Bullying From Known Figures:
“I think it’s so crazy that people are able to get online or publish anything that is not a 100 percent fact. That really is messing with my life. How are you able to do it and get away with it? I just learned that you really can’t get away with that, and I’m going to get you. Right now I’m just getting all my stuff together because I’m seeing it. Yeah, you keep doing that. I’m going to spin the block on you.”
On The Mantra She Tells Herself:
‘Right now we’re going through some dark things. You are built for this. ‘God must got something good planned for you, because I don’t think he’ll put you through this if he wasn’t going to give you your reward at the end.’”