celeb news Megan covers Rolling Stone, speaks in detail about shooting incident + new music

June 15, 2022

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When Megan got out of the car for good, she said, Lanez shouted “Dance, *****!” and began shooting at her. Her feet bleeding, Megan dropped to the ground and crawled to a stranger’s driveway. Speaking to Gayle King, Megan said Lanez apologized profusely, and begged for Megan’s silence by offering her and Harris “a million dollars.” Police vehicles and helicopters swarmed the scene; saying she feared law enforcement would respond with deadly force if they found out a Black man was holding a gun, Megan told police she stepped on glass. (Lanez has denied shooting Megan; his representative did not respond on the record to a request for further comment.)

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Megan’s scars run deep. First, there was the grueling physical recovery. “What nobody knows is, I had to get the surgery the same night. I stayed in the hospital in California for maybe four days,” she says. “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 ****** up.” She began physical therapy in New York before traveling to Tampa, Florida, where she regained the ability to walk.

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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 **** do you mean your back is against the wall? You’re the only person in this situation that would clear this up for me.

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As it stands, Megan will face Lanez in court when the case against him goes to trial in September. “I want him to go to jail,” Megan says plainly. “I want him to go under the jail.”

New music:

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“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 motherfuckin’ 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.

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She’s particularly proud of the way “Gift and Curse” layers personal revelation on top of exuberant dance music. Of the five songs she plays me, it’s my favorite. Produced by Murda Beatz, it’s shrouded in menacing piano and bouncing bass. After asserting her independence in the first verse, Megan gives a set of freaky shout-outs to sex organs and her dominion over them in the second — “My motherfucking body, my choice/Ain’t no lil dick taking my voice.”

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Megan’s mom constantly permeates her thoughts, and on her new song “Anxiety,” she confronts the loss more candidly than she ever has on wax. “Anxiety” is not one of Megan’s best-sounding songs — its beat is a little too simple and saccharine — but it’s one of her most open. Part of a verse includes a letter she wishes she could send to her mom in heaven: “I would tell her sorry that I really been wildin’, and ask her to forgive me cuz I really been trying,” she raps.

New album expected to be released this summer

Edited June 15, 2022 by dangerousalex

June 15, 2022

Megan looks good (as usual) and I hope her next album is better than Good News.

June 15, 2022

June 15, 2022

The shade to the Anxiety song lol

June 15, 2022

She looks f-ing stunning. God, she's been through a lot, I'm really hoping she's a little more at peace and sees continued success. She seems like a wonderful human :jamming: