Memphis rapper Yo Gotti has been preparing for the release of his upcoming album, Trapped, which he described as “one of my classic albums ever,” and to generate buzz for the project, he teamed up with two of hip-hop’s hottest artists, Lil Uzi Vert and Megan Thee Stallion, for the remix to the project’s latest […]
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Megan Thee StallionImage: Carmen Mandato (Getty Images) I’ve come to the conclusion that I have aged out of the BET Hip Hop Awards. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, and it definitely doesn’t mean that I’m elderly. What it means is that this show—which taped over the weekend to air tonight at 8 p.m.—is catering […]
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“Hot Girl Fall” is just getting started, and Gucci Mane is celebrating with a fresh Megan Thee Stallion collaboration, a new track called “Big Booty.” The succinct two-minute track is built on a sample of 2 Live Crew’s “Hoochie Mama,” and on the song, Mane celebrates thickness with lyrics like, “She’s a big booty b*tch […]
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Megan Thee Stallion performs onstage during Rihanna’s 5th Annual Diamond Ball in New York, Sept. 12, 2019.Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris (Getty Images for Diamond Ball) Just in time for summer’s end, “Hot Girl” Megan Thee Stallion got her wish and was awarded a trademark for the song title and phrase she made go viral, “Hot Girl […]
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Megan Thee Stallion’s phrase “Hot Girl Summer” quickly took the nation by storm. The phrase was suddenly appearing on Forever 21 clothing and in tweets from Wendy’s. Meg was looking to cash in on the phrase she created by getting a trademark approval. She recently revealed in an interview that the phrase was “already in […]
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Just when it seemed Megan Thee Stallion‘s whirlwind 2019 couldn’t bring any more good fortune and success her way, it looks like she found a way to prove that her “hot girl summer” won’t end with one season. Today, Meg announced on Instagram that she has followed in the footsteps of many other successful, one-of-a-kind […]
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Megan Thee Stallion closed out “Hot Girl Summer” with a bang this week. Thursday night, Meg performed the Rolling Stone No. 1 hit alongside Ty Dolla Sign on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. DaBaby fell through to perform his verse on “Cash Sh*t” as well. Meg starts out the performance with her signature move, […]
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LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers celebrates after a play against the Utah Jazz during the second half of a game in Los Angeles April 7, 2019. Photo: Yong Teck Lim (Getty) LeBron James will have to take an “L” on his desire to trademark the phrase “Taco Tuesday,” a phrase he often employs […]
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Photo: iStock Ah, the week after Labor Day—allegedly marking the start of fall, though I’ve been telling everyone willing to listen (to date, three people) that September is, in actual fact, a summer month. But since the world insists on spinning on an axis of delusion and lies, we are gathered here to mourn a […]
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[embedded content] Share This Video In the wet and wild video for Megan Thee Stallion’s signature single, “Hot Girl Summer,” the Stallion and guests Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla Sign throw “the hottest party of the summer” to close out the season, declaring that “hot girls win the summer” in a news chyron as Lala […]
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Contrary to popular belief, Labor Day does not signify the end of summer. So while everyone was prepared to pack up their all-white outfits after celebrating the season’s last three-day weekend, Megan Thee Stallion had other plans. “Hot Girl Summer” ends when she says it does, and by finally releasing the long-awaited visual for her […]
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Screenshot: Hanna Moon (Vogue Hong Kong/Condé Nast) Rihanna may not always be there when you call for new music, but she’s always on time with a lewk. Just when we thought we’d have to survive this September without a cover from our beloved bad gal, Vogue Hong Kong debuted their trio of September covers—because one […]
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Image: Roy Rochlin (Getty Images) Like Issa Rae, I watch award shows to root for everybody black. When a black person hit my screen during the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, I turned into a proud mother who was equipped with a sign and screams filled with the happiness that comes from knowing another one […]
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Getty Image The summer is just about over. With school starting again and the days of August dwindling, it’s time to reflect on the best moments of Summer ’19, including the best freestyles. There were a range of memorable lyrical exercises this summer, from Freddie Gibbs rattling off doubletime bars with his baby in his […]
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Philip Cosores Most festivals are content to not mean anything. Or maybe that’s not fair, but the greater thing that most fests champion is a sense of community, a rite of passage for young people, and celebrating a collective love of music, food, and the outdoors. Sure, most will have environmental initiatives and voting registration […]
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This summer felt dominated both by Megan Thee Stallion‘s perfect catchphrase “hot girl summer” as well as the endless quest to both analyze and co-opt it. But Megan is part of a whole wave of women, from Cardi B and Princess Nokia to City Girls, Saweetie, and Rico Nasty, whose lyrics offer new perspectives on […]
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[embedded content] Atlanta label Quality Control has made a name for themselves by signing up-and-coming rappers who quickly rise to fame like Migos, Lil Yachty, and more recently, City Girls. The record label put out their second iteration of their Control The Streets mixtape which showcases the fresh talent on the scene. Control The Streets […]
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Getty Image It may be a “Hot Girl Summer,” but it turns out even Megan Thee Stallion has to file the proper paperwork to twerk. TMZ reports the LAPD shut down the emerging rapper’s video shoot for “Hot Girl Summer” with Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla Sign, all because the production didn’t have the correct […]
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Screenshot: Art Crooks (Paper Magazine) Anime-loving blerds of the world, this one’s for you! In conjunction with the release of her highly anticipated single/summer anthem, “Hot Girl Summer,” the newly minted hip-hop goddess known as Megan Thee Stallion is also perched atop the digital cover of Paper magazine in a look so hot it’d make […]
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After birthing the phenomenon known as “Hot Girl Summer,” its official anthem has finally arrived, courtesy of Megan Thee Stallion, with a little assistance from a pair of artists equally about that liberated life: Ty Dolla $ign and Nicki Minaj. We first learned of Nicki and Ty’s involvement with the song on Monday, when the […]
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