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[airplane engines whooshing]
I'm tired.
I just want to get to my destination.
Farris dragging me all around the world.
- [Farris laughs] - [laughs]
I look like poop right now,
but I had to get up at--
Or actually, let me not even say I had to get up, 'cause I never went to sleep.
I had to be up at 1:00 in the morning, maybe 2:00,
for glam so I can come to Guadalajara.
I've decided that
I am going to cancel all of my shows, my performances, um... [clicks tongue]
...any obligations that I had,
because I feel like I finally have reached a breaking point where
I'm genuinely tired and I don't want to do it.
Like, I'm not having fun right now, and I feel like:
How can I be Megan Thee Stallion and I'm not having fun?
Like, I feel like I'm always on the verge of some type of breakdown.
And I'm just tired.
And I really feel numb.
And I know a lot of the shit that happens to me just seems like this is just--
this can't be true or this shit just seem like a fucking movie,
but this is, like, my real life.
And this shit is like a movie.
And it's time for that part in the movie where
I get up off my ass and I do something about it.
[gentle music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[warm-up coach] So we're gonna warm up.
♪ ♪
[Megan] I feel like I have always been
building Megan Thee Stallion.
I've been through so much,
I feel like it's always some kind of target on me.
[reporter] It's displays of blatant nudity
and sexualization that is keeping women down in this society.
Ah!
[interviewer] There's a power to women, huh?
[Megan] I'm empowering women
and I'm empowering the men who want strong women.
[interviewer] Yeah.
[Megan] My body, my choice!
[crowd] "My body, my choice!"
[cheering]
[Megan] I always have to protect myself.
[reporter 2] There's a side of people who are just disturbed
by a Black woman who dares to be so self-possessed.
[officer] Hold your hands up!
[reporter 3] The hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion,
says she was the victim of a shooting.
[whimpers]
[reporter 4] If everything goes as expected,
Megan Thee Stallion will testify
in the trial of the man who allegedly shot her.
[Megan] I had to create this armor.
- [cheering] - [crowd chanting] Megan, Megan, Megan!
[Megan] Hey, if you love your body,
let me hear you make some motherfucking noise.
- [cheering] - [♪ Megan Thee Stallion: "Body"]
♪ And if the beat live, you know Lil Ju made it ♪
♪ Body-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody ♪
- ♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey ♪ - ♪ Ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody ♪
- ♪ Body-ody-ody-ody... ♪ - [Megan] What's up?
It's Megan Thee Stallion, aka the Hot Girl Coach.
Can y'all hear me? Can y'all hear?
Hey!
I just wanted to give my Hotties a little something.
♪ Body-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody... ♪
[Megan] Real motherfucking hot girl shit.
[fan] Real hot girl shit!
♪ Look at how I bodied that ♪
♪ Ate it up and gave it back... ♪
[Stephen Colbert] The first woman with three streaming number one songs
in one year.
One of TIME 100's most influential people.
♪ Ate it with the panties on ♪
♪ I could build a house with all the brick I got, yeah...♪
And the Grammy for Best Rap Song...
Megan Thee Stallion.
Thank you!
♪ All them bitches scary cats, I call 'em Carole Baskins, ah ♪
♪ Body-ody-ody-ody-ody... ♪
[fan 2] She empowers women
to be confident about themselves and their body.
She just inspired me to be the baddest bitch ever.
Megan is a "baaaaa..."
We love you, Megan!
- Ah! - ♪ Body-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody ♪
♪ Ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody, ah ♪
♪ Body-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody ♪
- ♪ Ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody ♪ - [crowd chanting] Megan! Megan!
I think Megan Thee Stallion is trying to protect Megan Pete.
[interviewer] What is she trying to protect?
I have no idea.
You still feel like you're figuring out who Megan Pete is in real time?
- [cheering] - [intense music playing]
[♪ "Pomp and Circumstance"]
♪ ♪
[scattered shouts, cheering]
♪ ♪
[announcer speaking indistinctly]
[Megan] This is why,
if I'm ever late, when I'm late...
Me.
This is why.
'Cause you see now, all of a sudden, he want to re-curl the whole head.
It's probably five people before me right now that they about to call.
- [Kellon] It's you now? - [indistinct announcement]
Ah, that ain't me.
- Ah, shit. - Ha!
Bitch, it's over.
Oh, my God, me and Kellon be scrambling.
Bitch, I always say half to the front, half to the back.
- Yeah. To the front. - [laughs]
I love it.
Thank y'all for making me too beautiful today.
- Caps on right now. - Oh, that's it. Caps on. Okay.
I do a million shows and I'm still nervous.
[Kellon] You know what I mean?
[announcer] Anjay Pevross.
[crowd cheering]
- Megan Pete. - [cheering]
[♪ Megan Thee Stallion: "Last Week in H Tx"]
♪ Last week we was eatin' Peanut butter jelly, damn ♪
♪ Then I hit a lick now we countin' Benjamellys, okay ♪
♪ Met him in the telly Doin' whatever he let me ♪
♪ I got love for my nigga Like I'm Tionne off of Belly, mwah ♪
♪ Everybody thinkin' Bad bitches got it easy ♪
♪ Well, not the young ones On the grind gettin' greazy ♪
♪ Last week, I had to make A hunnid dollars stretch ♪
♪ Every motherfuckin' night I was eatin' cheese eggs, okay...
Okay, we out here. We graduated!
[overlapping chatter]
[song fades]
[cork pops]
- [overlapping chatter, laughter] - Yeah!
[whooping]
We could've had like-- You know, just pretend like it was something in there.
- Yeah. - [laughter]
[team member] It's a real hot girl, right here.
[Megan] Okay.
[team] Yay.
- [Megan] It's so pretty. - Ain't it gorgeous?
- [Megan] Thank you. - You're welcome.
[cheering]
- [person] Real hot girl shit! - [cheering]
- We love you. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. - You got me up here crying.
It's not-- It's happy. It's happy.
Let's get the champagne. Here, we gonna do it. [laughs]
[gentle, wistful music playing]
♪ ♪
- So pretty. - [camera clicks]
[laughs]
Love. Congrats.
[Megan] I feel very accomplished, getting my degree...
but I wish my mom was here to see it.
Coming back to Houston, I think about my mom,
I think about my grandma, I think about my dad,
I think about just loss.
They make me sad to go home.
But I wouldn't be here without my mom.
- [♪ Lil' Keke: "South Side"] - ♪ Welcome to the, uh, South Side ♪
♪ No, uh-uh, I said The South Side of H-Town ♪
♪ You gotta peep game You know what I'm sayin', 'cause, um ♪
♪ That's why we doin' the, uh, South Side, The South Side, yeah ♪
♪ The South Side, The South Side, everybody do the...♪
[Megan] Music has always been in my life.
♪ The South Side, yeah... ♪
My mama was, like, a gangsta rapper.
She could go toe to toe with the boys for real, for real.
♪ South Side, the South Side... ♪
And she would just be playing instrumentals over and over,
rapping to herself, freestyling to herself.
I see her writing when she get ready for work in the morning,
me getting ready for school.
[Young Megan gasps]
She was so fucking thick and curvy.
Like, she just looked so good.
I was like, my mama is really the baddest bitch.
Like, when I get older, I really want to be like her.
She was like everything I feel like a strong woman is.
I only hung around my mama, my grandmothers-- grown women.
So I had only ever heard, "Oh, my gosh, you're so beautiful.
Y-You're amazing. You can do whatever you want to do.
Oh, my gosh, you're tall. You got model height."
- [children chattering, laughing] - [school bell rings]
But when I got older,
I was, like, the tallest girl in the class.
[overlapping chatter]
And I would go to school and I would hear kids
picking on me for being tall.
[children laughing]
[Young Megan crying]
But I was a little crybaby. [scoffs]
You could say one thing I don't like, I'm in shambles.
And I was like, "Mama, what should I do?"
- [crying] - She was like,
"Stop all that damn crying.
You have to demand your respect."
So that's how I went into every situation.
I wasn't giving nobody no time to play with me.
[gentle music playing]
[door creaks open]
[Young Megan gasps]
My daddy was in jail for, like, the first seven to eight years of my life.
But when he got out of jail, we were just inseparable.
And he just gave me so much game.
Everything was like a rhyme.
He would be like, "Man, everything that grin ain't your friend."
That one just still sticks with me to this day.
But when I was in the ninth grade, he passed away.
He had a heart attack.
My mama was a wreck.
And I didn't want to cry, 'cause I didn't want to make her more sad.
So we never really talked about it.
I was just trying to be strong for her.
[dramatic music plays]
And I think that's when I really started creating Megan Thee Stallion.
I realized that when I'm rapping, I get to pretend to be somebody
stronger than what I actually am.
I showed my mama this video of me rapping on YouTube.
♪ ♪
Her initial reaction was shock.
Everything I did, I feel like I was trying to impress my mama.
I wanted her to feel like she could pass the torch to me.
♪ ♪
[horse neighs]
[♪ Megan Thee Stallion: "Like A Stallion"]
♪ Like a stallion ♪
♪ Bitch, it's moneymaking Megan, better known as Thee Stallion ♪
♪ Hanging round your daddy neck just like a damn medallion ♪
♪ Body so on point so I be dressin' like I'm swimmin' ♪
♪ Bitches get offended, can't handle all this pimpin' ♪
I didn't have a care in the world.
Like, I would be in class writing music.
I'd play a beat for my mama
and she would be rapping, so I would go home
and, like, try to outdo her and then,
the next time I jump in the car with her, I'm like, "Yeah, listen to this."
She'd be like, "Okay."
- Hottie gang. - [laughter]
[Megan] She was, like, my girl.
Like, my bestie, my number one fan.
She would record my freestyle videos from her car.
♪ Real-ass big titties poppin' like whoa ♪
♪ The shit jiggle different when the shit homegrown ♪
♪ Want a real bitch? Need to come out to Texas ♪
♪ Megan from Houston I'm naturally sexy ♪
She didn't record like a mama. She ain't take pics like a mama.
Like, she would get my angle,
and she would be like, "You could do better than that.
And you can twerk harder than that."
Once I started posting myself rapping,
people responded to it very well.
♪ They like, "Megan, you so nasty" ♪
♪ Girl, I could teach you ♪
♪ I'm just writing verses 'bout how your nigga should eat you ♪
[Megan] I don't think nobody was ready for what was about to come out my mouth.
[laughs]
[Megan] That girl look like money. You hear me?
- Who you about to go manage? - You.
[Megan] My mama, she was like, "Bitch, I'm finna be your manager
and we gon' get this on the road. We gonna make it work."
[vehicle beeping]
[indistinct chatter]
Kelsey Nicole. We on set.
Megan Thee Stallion, Moneybagg Yo, "Make a Bag."
I'm 'bout to be serving. That's what I do best, is serve.
- [Megan] Servin' looks and cooks. - [laughs]
[laughs]
I have a cowboy hat.
[man] You got a copycat?
- A cowboy hat. - Oh, a cowboy hat.
Yeah.
And I got some booty shorts, too.
I'm gonna look like a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader.
- [team member] Uh-oh. - It's about to be real sexy.
Everybody like the-the Cowboy Cheerleaders.
Yeah.
It's about to go down.
Young Tina Snow...
[Holly] Don't show 'em yet.
No, I'm telling you to record a video of me.
Megan, I-- but I'm doing all this other stuff.
Hold on.
[indistinct chatter]
Do we want, like, some music?
- [indistinct chatter] - [Megan singing quietly]
- [team member] Do y'all see what that is? - [Megan] Wait a minute. Hold on.
Now put this on for the little bag match.
[laughs]
- Just put it on really quick. - Okay.
We just need a little somethin', little walk, little turn.
Some more wardrobe turns.
- Wow. Wow. - [indistinct chatter]
[DJ Scream] So when everybody looks back on this interview,
two, three years from now, what are you definitely gonna accomplish
that people might not expect right now?
Well, for sure, everybody gonna know my name.
And, hopefully, in two or three years,
I'm considered, you know, one of the greatest to do it.
[quiet chatter]
Test, test, test, test, test. Yes.
"Cocky AF."
I don't know why it's, like, I got the perfect volume,
but my mama like, you know, everything is this loud.
That's that **** you be on.
[laughter]
Copy that.
[chuckling]
[♪ Megan Thee Stallion: "Cocky AF"]
♪ Hey, cocky as fuck Everything 'bout me poppin' ♪
♪ Got face, I got body You name it, I got it ♪
♪ Cocky as fuck, you know I'm conceited ♪
♪ Yo' ho wanna be me Yo' nigga wan' eat it ♪
♪ Cocky as fuck Everything 'bout me poppin' ♪
♪ Got face, I got body You name it, I got it ♪
♪ Cocky as fuck Nigga, fuck your opinion ♪
♪ I hustle to get it I get it, I get it ♪
It just seem awkward, right?
[Holly] Leave the hook out.
Come from the diaphragm.
You need to do this in practice, like when you rapping.
Just go on let it go from the stomach. Don't--
It sound like you holding your breath. That's why you not doing it.
'Cause I've been out of breath from the dancing...
You're so lyrical. You're at a thousand words.
That's why I say don't try to do your hook. Leave the hook out.
- Okay. Okay. - Just do your verse.
- And that way you can have some wind. - Okay.
- [Holly] You know what I'm sayin'? - Yeah. Yeah.
[Megan] My mama, in my opinion,
was always the smartest person in the room.
And she ain't need nobody to tell her nothing.
She ain't need nobody give her no advice.
I just wanted her to feel like
I learned and I'm listening to what she's saying.
[crowd cheering]
Are you ready? I am OG Ron C from 93.7 The Beat.
And we got, uh, great performers for you guys.
So you guys like great music,
we got something great for you guys tonight.
[crowd cheering]
[Megan] Anywhere I could perform, I was performing.
- [♪ Megan Thee Stallion: "Pull Up Late"] - I'm Megan Thee Stallion...
if y'all ain't know. Aka the H-Town Hottie, aka Young Tina Snow.
♪ Look, it's five o'clock Just touched down in the city ♪
♪ Tell your people, hit my people ♪
♪ If you're tryna link up with me, hello ♪
I remember performing at bars.
It's, uh, Megan Thee motherfucking Stallion.
Aka Young Tina Snow...
I would be at clubs performing every single night.
[cheering]
Hotties say, "Real hot girl shit."
- [crowd] Real hot girl shit! - Real hot girl shit!
I mean, I just kept at it.
I wasn't gonna let nothing stop me, 'cause I knew
rapping was what I really wanted to do.
Like, it was what I was passionate about.
- [♪ Megan Thee Stallion: "Big Ole Freak"] - [clamoring, cheering]
♪ Ay, ay, ay ♪
And when I released "Big Ole Freak,"
that was like when everything really went up for me.
[cheering]
♪ Ay, big ole freak ♪
♪ Big booty, big ole treat ♪
♪ I'm-a make him wait for the pussy ♪
♪ Hit it till he big ole skeet, ay. ♪
[Hali G] How does it feel to be
a badass female artist putting on for the city of Houston?
This is just something that is really blowing my mind.
♪ Pop it, pop it ♪
♪ Daydreaming 'bout how I rock it ♪
[interviewer] And now you're, like, on the Billboard charts. It's like...
[laughs]
With this single, it's crazy.
- Everyone knows all of the words. - Yeah, "Big Ole Freak" is crazy, yeah.
[crowd] ♪ Shit, I'm on the way ♪
♪ Ride on that dick I'm like, "Yay," hey ♪
♪ Usually I like to fuck ♪
♪ But tonight we gon' make love 'cause you bae ♪
[KimKim] You literally just feel like a hot girl as soon as you hear the song.
I like to uplift people, and I think it's real cool
to see other people uplifting people, so...
It's not just about being sexy.
It's about being confident and me being
confident in my sexuality and other women not being scared.
Let's be real.
Everybody's a ho. [laughs]
Everybody's a freak. Everybody's having sex.
I just want women to feel like we are powerful, we are in control,
we can say whatever we want to say.
So do you ever feel like you're an object because of this?
Well, see, men are objects to me.
- So, like... [laughs] - Ooh!
♪ I want to fuck in the mirror ♪
♪ I like to look at your face when you in it ♪
♪ Come in the room and I'm giving commands ♪
♪ I am the captain and he the lieutenant ♪
[Megan] I'm talking this ratchet shit, I'm talking this gangsta shit,
like, I'm being me.
And it got such a great response.
[crowd] ♪ I love to talk my shit ♪
♪ And you must be a pussy boy ♪
- ♪ If you get offended ♪ - [Megan] Hey, okay.
- ♪ Bitch, it's Tina Snow ♪ - Yeah.
- ♪ They love me 'cause I'm cold ♪ - Yeah.
♪ And you can't take no nigga from me ♪
- You got mind control. - ♪ I got mind control ♪
[screaming]
This my motherfuckin' school!
[crowd chanting] Megan! Megan!
[Megan] That was when I was my happiest.
- [♪ Megan Thee Stallion: "Realer"] - ♪ I am not signing for less than a mil ♪
♪ If you don't like it, then fuck how you feel ♪
- [Megan] Let me hear that. - That "feel" fell off.
It was one part I didn't like.
That "feel" is "fuck how you feel."
[Megan] Let me hear that one more time.
[crying] I used to let her make all my decisions.
She-She ran everything. She was the boss.
♪ Ay ♪
That's a good one.
[Megan, normal] Like, we were going so hard.
Everything was so good.
[piano playing]
[indistinct chatter]
- Come here. - [woman vocalizing "Heart and Soul"]
- [cameraperson laughing] - Right? Play this.
- [woman continues vocalizing] - [playing "Heart and Soul"]
And then you change it up.
This is so high.
[cameraperson] Yeah. Come on!
Musically, it clearly has...
She gonna play this.
[Holly] And then over here, I'll be going...
♪ ♪
[cameraperson laughing] Come through.
♪ ♪
[pensive music playing]
[Megan] I remember I had a show in L.A. the next day.
My mama, she called me and she was like, "Man, I keep fucking up my words."
And she was like, "I really think something is wrong.
Like, I'm talking really slow.
I feel funny. I need you to call 911."
- [monitor beeping] - [siren wailing]
[crying]
I don't want to freak out 'cause I don't want to freak her out.
It was a tumor in her brain.
And we was just like, "Damn," like...
"How long this been going on?" Like...
"And what does that mean?"
I-It's like she started giving me like a-a pep talk,
like she-- like she knew something was about to happen to her.
[thunder rumbles]
And then she started having back-to-back seizures.
It was like she's just not responding.
And I'm like, "What?"
Like, I'm in shambles.
And they had to, like, put her under.
She was just, she was just-just brain-dead, like...
So I stayed up there every day.
Like, I was spending the night at that hospital.
I just was praying that she could just shake back from it.
And once I realized she wasn't coming back,
I was just like, "Damn, I can't keep her like this."
'Cause I know she wouldn't have wanted to stay like this.
Um...
so I had to make the decision to...
...well, I guess, pull the plug.
And, um, she just passed, like, the next day.
[somber music playing]
- [crying] - [thunder rumbling]
[crowd cheering]
You got my video ready?
Huh?
[overlapping shouting]
Y'all know that 2019 has been really tough for me.
I didn't wanna cancel none of my shows.
[cheering]
And I didn't wanna stop going.
'Cause that's not what my mama would want me to do.
[cheering]
I just wanted to share this video
of me and my mama and all the shit we was doing.
Up until now.
[crowd cheering, shouting]
She was my number one fan.
Through all the ass shakin' and cussin'.
[sobs]
I'm not gonna cry.
[gentle music playing]
[Megan] When my mama passed away, I think I really forgot who I was.
And I lost a lot of confidence.
I was expecting somebody to say, "I'm gonna run this for you.
Don't do that, Megan. Don't say that.
You should rap like this. Like, you should say it like that."
I was so used to my mama telling me what to do,
and when life started getting crazy, I didn't have her.
[photographers shouting]
Who talkin' 'bout a boat?
[crowd cheering]
Hey, look. The Hotties are ready to try the boat.
Okay. Yeah.
[excited chatter]
[Megan] Everybody around me is having such a good time, they turning up.
They seem very happy, and I want to be on the same wave as them.
[overlapping chatter]
Fire-fucking-ball!
[crowd] Fire-fucking-ball!
[cheering]
[woman] Damn!
[Megan] I'm trying to be strong every day
because I know my mama would want me to be strong.
[somber music playing]
Before she passed, she was like,
"I don't want you to stop just 'cause I'm sick."
I just remember her saying, "You need to go to work."
And that's what I did.
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
- We have an important announcement! - We have an announcement for you.
[person 1] Show her!
[person 2] Show-- Show her right now.
Megan has been nominated...
For a motherfuckin' BET award!
[crowd cheering]
[Megan] After that, I just left Houston and I just never went back.
[announcer] Give it up for Megan Thee Stallion!
[musical air horn blows]
Thank you for having me!
And she said, "Fucking..."
Real hot girl shit! [laughs]
- What? - [crew member] Stop all the cussin'.
- Don't cuss? - You can sing it like it's a...
- Right, right, right. - You know what I'm saying?
I ain't gonna cuss when it's for real.
This is crazy.
This not YouTube no more, like... we...
This ain't YouTube, bitch.
I remember the first day we put her first video on YouTube.
From day one, I knew she was gonna be a star.
[hip-hop music playing]
[Dave East] And the winner is...
Megan Thee Stallion.
[cheering]
[Megan] Oh, my God. [laughs]
What?
Houston, Texas, we in this bitch. [laughs]
Congratulations. This is your first VMA tonight,
your first Moon Person for Power Anthem.
- [wild cheering] - What?
Congratulations.
[Megan] I mean, I'm 24. I really like to work.
I'm just getting started and, you know, y'all gonna see. [laughs]
Y'all gonna see where I take it. So thank you so much.
- ♪ Handle me? ♪ - ♪ Huh ♪
- ♪ Who gon' handle me? ♪ - ♪ Who? ♪
♪ Thinkin' he's a player He's a member on the team ♪
♪ He put in all that work He wanna be the MVP ♪
♪ I told him ain't no taming me I love my niggas equally ♪
[interviewer] Define what a hot girl is.
[Megan] Basically, a hot girl is somebody who's confident,
somebody who's kind,
somebody who is the life of the motherfucking party.
They just unapologetically them. You know?
How many hot girls out here? How many hot girls?
[crowd screaming]
- [overlapping shouting] - Real hot girl shit! Real hot girl shit!
[JoJo Wright] You kind of will own the summer from now on.
I literally own the summer. It's mine.
Oh, my God!
[friend] Oh, my God!
Oh, my God, that's you!
[interviewer 2] You have already had, like, a crazy year,
so what are some dream collabs that you're trying to get?
Well, we gonna pray to Jesus Christ that it happen,
but I really want to do a song with Beyoncé. [laughs] Like...
- [interviewer] Okay, yeah. - But Beyoncé...
[Ebro Darden] Megan Thee Stallion has a remix to "Savage."
Now, you been on the scene just a short minute,
and now you got a collaboration with Beyoncé.
She done drop a "Savage" remix with Beyoncé?
[screams]
I'm too excited right now, because you're the GOAT right now, sis.
Bro, what is happening, bro?
- ♪ I'm a savage... - [Megan] It was 2020.
Quarantine is happening.
Everybody's basically in the house.
I have everybody's attention.
"Savage" is the number one dance on TikTok.
[Megan] Yes.
♪ I'm a savage, yeah ♪
♪ Classy, bougie, ratchet, yeah ♪
- ♪ Sassy, moody, nasty ♪ - ♪ Hey, hey, yeah ♪
♪ Acting stupid, what's happening? ♪
- ♪ Bitch, what's happening? ♪ - ♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa ♪
♪ Bitch, I'm a savage...
We got it! Holly, we did it!
We did it!
♪ Ah, I'm a savage ♪
- [cheering] - ♪ Classy, bougie, rachet...
[Megan] I have a number one.
I have the number one song in the motherfucking country, you bitch.
And I just want to tell y'all thank you.
I had just got to the point in my career
where I'm really elevating.
- [♪ Megan Thee Stallion: "W.A.B"] - ♪ Weak-ass, weak-ass, weak-ass bitch ♪
♪ Weak as, weak as, weak as shit ♪
♪ Fuck you and your weak-ass Weak-ass friends ♪
♪ Don't nobody want your man Weak-ass dick, ay, uh ♪
♪ So don't play with me, ho ♪
- Oh. - [both laughing]
[Megan] Kelsey was my best friend.
She was always around me.
- Oh, no! - [both laughing]
[Megan] My mom had just passed.
I was on the road
and I didn't have help,
so I was like, "Well, you could be my assistant."
Kelsey is a person that is, like, just on her shit.
Like, on her business.
And she always been like that, but...
We're making them quit their jobs
and we're making them professional Hotties.
Two best friends, I envisioned it being like
the dream team.
[Kelsey] Rest in peace, Miss Holly.
We miss you.
I can't believe it's about to be a fucking year.
That's why I just want to try to make sure Megan is always good,
'cause I'm really, like,
doing what she was doing for Megan, you know?
Breathe, damn.
Like, this-this shit-- I'm really proud of you, Megan.
Like, this shit is deeper than what people see.
Like, we're best friend-- No, we're fucking sisters, bitch.
We're literally with each other every day.
Like, I mean, you're, like-- I don't know.
There's more to it than what people see, y'all.
It really is.
[Megan] I just-- I super appreciate you.
[laughter]
I just feel like I wanted something.
Like, I just wanted some friends, I wanted some family.
I was just trying to build something that felt good all around me.
[crowd screaming, shouting]
But looking back,
it was the worst year of my life.
[cheering]
[melancholy music playing]
When my mama passed, I was just all over the place.
♪ ♪
You know, I was hanging out with everybody and their damn mama.
[indistinct chatter]
♪ ♪
I'd just keep getting lit, thinking I would get through this pain.
[exhales]
And Tory was one of the people
that I just started hanging out with.
This is official shot o'clock.
This is live shots.
Shot o'clock. Shot o'clock.
To the Stallion.
Megan Thee Stallion.
This is Tory Lanez and Megathon. [laughs]
Megatron, bitch.
Megatron.
[Megan] He had expressed to me that his mama had passed.
We was bonding about that.
I thought we were really friends.
[muted laughter, chatter]
But my daddy always said that everything that grin ain't your friend.
[tense music playing]
On the night that he shot me,
I was very confused, I was very hurt.
[Megan] Tory, don't get my phone wet.
[hip-hop music playing]
We left to go home.
[engine starts]
I was in the car with Tory and his driver and Kelsey.
We are all arguing.
I don't remember exactly what I was saying,
but I knew I was talking shit, and he probably was a little offended.
I tried to get out the car one time.
"I'm over this shit."
He was like, "Megan, get back in the car, get back in the car.
We almost to your house."
This boy getting so angry 'cause his feelings was hurt by a woman.
[yelling]
Like, I know friends fight,
but I'm not thinking that it's about to get like this.
I get out the car again.
I ain't even got shit on. I just got on a swimsuit.
And I'm walking off,
and this motherfucker just start hollering at me.
He was like, "Dance, bitch."
Go!
[gunshots]
[dramatic music playing]
[Megan panting]
[gasps]
[panting]
Tory can't even believe he shot me at this point.
Like, he like, "Oh, my gosh, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.
I apologize, I apologize."
He's like, "Megan, I swear to God I'll get y'all a million dollars.
Please don't say nothing. Just don't tell nobody."
I'm like, "What the fuck are you talking about, a million dollars?"
Like, y'all should be focused on trying to help me.
[indistinct officer chatter]
[helicopter whirring]
[Megan] It's so many police, it's fucking helicopters,
and I'm fucking shook because George Floyd had just died.
Like, the climate with the police right now--
they are killing people left and right.
Shoot first, fuck the questions.
So, I'm like, "We about to die."
Like, these police are about to kill all of us.
[melancholy music playing]
[indistinct police radio chatter]
They asked me what happened.
I don't want to say that this boy just shot this gun
because I do not want to see him get shot and killed.
So I say, "Oh, I stepped on glass."
'Cause I didn't want nobody to die.
They take me to the hospital.
The police still questioning me.
I just want to be over this.
But then the doctor came in.
He's like, "It's bullet fragments in your feet."
Okay, like, I'm fucked up.
I'm in this bed looking crazy.
I'm hurting.
He was my fucking friend, and I feel so dumb
because it must have been some signs
that could have been showing me this whole time...
something.
Like, I should have saw something...
to knew not to fucking trust you.
[automated voice] This is a free call from...
[Tory] Tory.
[automated voice] ...an inmate at LAPD jail.
[Tory] Hello?
[Kelsey] Hey.
[Tory] Y'all got out safe and everything?
[Kelsey] Uh, Meg's still in the hospital. I'm outside the hospital.
[Tory] I know she probably never ever gonna talk to me ever again, but...
Bruh, I just want you to know, bruh,
I'd never do some shit like that, bruh.
I was so fucking drunk, nigga,
I just didn't even understand what the fuck was going on, bruh, like...
That's not going to make my actions right, bro.
But I'm just deeply sorry, bruh.
I'd never even move like that, bruh.
[Kelsey sighs] I know. There was a lot...
There was a lot that happened, but...
[Tory] What happened happened already, bruh. I can't take it back.
When you get a chance, bruh, just figure out what you gotta do
to bail me out this shit.
[Kelsey] Okay.
Not even, not even two days later,
Kelsey and Tory is, like, meeting up.
Kelsey told me this all, on my life, he was like, "Yeah,
I just want to thank you for not saying nothing, you know.
Let me get you some money, let me invest in your business," blah, blah, blah.
How could you meet up privately
in a room with somebody who was just bold enough to pull a gun out
on your best friend and shoot it?
I was in that hospital for a few days,
and I had to get the shells removed out of my feet.
I wanted to quietly move on from the situation.
[woman] Dennis!
[indistinct chatter]
- Hi, hi, hi! - He knows her.
[Megan] I had to just keep busy so I didn't sink into a dark place.
How about-- how do these steps feel?
Where am I going?
I'm already there.
[Megan] I felt so sorry for myself because I was like, this is the end.
I am not gonna be able to dance no more, I'm not gonna be able to have
"Megan Thee Stallion knees" 'cause I don't got Megan Thee Stallion ankles.
My motherfucking feet hurt, bitch.
But we here.
Mentally, I was like, "I'm not about to let this fuck me up."
A man is not gonna be my downfall.
[Dennis] Left, left, here we go, open.
Now a little, ooh, in Hollywood...
[♪ Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion: "WAP"]
♪ Whores in this house There's some whores in this house ♪
[Megan] And then "WAP" came out.
♪ There's some whores in this house ♪
♪ I said certified freak, seven days a week ♪
♪ Wet-ass pussy ♪
- ♪ Make that pullout game weak ♪ - ♪ Ah ♪
[crowd] ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah... ♪
[Cardi B] "Billboard Hot 100," y'all know what?
"WAP" debuts, 93 million U.S. streams,
the most for a song in opening week in history.
Thank you so much, Megan Thee Stallion.
♪ Gobble me, swallow me, drip down the side of me ♪
♪ Quick, jump out before you let it get inside of me...
[Megan] I definitely think "WAP" had, like, a big impact on women.
[Tarana Burke] I love Megan Thee Stallion.
[Gia Peppers] Me, too.
[Burke] We have so many things that oppress us and hold us and...
- [Peppers] Yes. - [Burke] ...make us sad.
We need places and spaces where we can just be free.
♪ When I ride the dick, I'm-a spell my name, ah...
[Megan] You could sing these words and really feel liberated.
[protestor] "Bring a bucket and a mop for this wet-ass pussy."
But it's there, nevertheless.
[protestor] "Give me everything you've got for this wet-ass pussy."
[crowd] ♪ Wet-ass pussy, make that pullout game weak...
[Megan] Thank you to everybody who supported "WAP"
all across the world.
They was in front of the White House singing "WAP"!
I said, "Okay!
Everybody got their 'WAP.'"
[Maxine Waters] Now, that's audacity.
You young women have taken control of your art.
My body, my choice!
[crowd] My body, my choice!
And let's put our middle fingers up to these motherfuckers.
I feel like when women come together, we just get so powerful.
It gets the men shaking.
- ♪ There's some whores in this house... - [Snoop Dogg] That should be a possession
that no one gets to know about until they know about it.
What image are you putting out to young women?
[podcaster] My issue is with them
giving false empowerment.
Look at what we're listening to women say right now.
[Gaines] She's a terrible example to be a mother and/or a wife.
We weren't talking about her being a mother or a wife.
[Tucker Carlson] Totally degrading.
And the same people who make it
will lecture you about "you hate women," or something.
[Trevor Noah] You have to admit, it's a really graphic song.
[Dulcé Sloan] Only in a repressed,
patriarchal society would people consider a woman's pleasure "graphic."
Men literally rap about gang bangs, passing 'em to the homies,
giving bitches Percocet,
but the worst thing you heard is me talking about my coochie.
That's crazy.
[fans cheering]
When you're a woman that embraces sexuality,
people feel like, "Why do you matter? You're a fucking slut anyway."
And I feel like that's why it was so easy for people
to dismiss the fact that I was assaulted.
We need to protect our Black women
- and love our Black women. - [crowd cheering]
[news anchor] The D.A.'s office has charged Tory Lanez
with shooting artist Megan Thee Stallion.
[news anchor 2] Lanez now faces two felony charges.
If convicted, he could be sentenced to 23 years in prison.
[Megan] Once California pressed charges,
I feel like that's when I started getting the backlash.
[Tory] She knows what happened,
I know what happened, and we know that what you're saying
and what the alleged things and the alleged accusations of my name is
are not true.
Do y'all want me to just sit here
and just allow my name to be assassinated for something that I did not do?
[Megan] He could just get online
and create whatever narrative he feel like creating that day.
Like, "Nothing happened, nothing happened,"
or, "She ain't even get shot."
And I feel like that's when it really started getting crazy.
[podcaster] And his story is clearly opposite from what Meg is saying.
If I shot you, why are you hopping back in the car with me?
You can't tell me who shot you if you weren't facing the shooter.
It just don't make sense to me, 'cause Tory ain't that type of guy.
Things don't really add up or make that much sense.
Megan is a liar.
No bullet holes...
Megan Thee Stallion did not get shot.
Free Tory Lanez!
[Megan] I would see a new lie every day.
I see a lot of people painting fake-ass... [chuckles]
narratives and making up stories and...
So many people were trying to dissect the things that I was saying
and trying to make it like,
"Oh, she changed her story a bunch of times."
I'm not finna let y'all keep playing in my face,
and I'm not finna let this nigga keep playing in my face either.
I was just hoping that somebody would see my side.
Yes, this nigga Tory shot me. Stop lying.
I was waiting for Kelsey to come forward.
[commentator] My source is very credible.
Megan has been sleeping with Tory Lanez for some months.
Megan decided to screw her best friend's man,
and that is the reason why Kelsey is not out here defending her.
I wasn't your enemy. You made me your enemy.
Come to find out, your ass was fucking with a nigga behind my back
that I was on first, and that ain't right
'cause you're supposed to be my best-- you were supposed to be my best friend.
She just really disappointed me and let me down.
Do you feel like anything that you're saying
justifies the fact that I was shot?
I would never let somebody drag my best friend
and let people speculate that this didn't happen to her,
when I had seen with my own two eyes what happened.
I just seen my best friend get shot, don't give a fuck what we're mad about.
I wouldn't have did her like that.
It sounds so good and it sounds so juicy
that that's what the whole thing got made about.
[dramatic music playing]
[overlapping crew chatter]
[Belle] It's a big day.
Now we're setting up for an interview with Gayle King,
and, um,
she's not feeling too well today,
so she, uh, she's kind of really not wanting to come down.
Everyone's getting set up.
It's gonna be a good one.
Are we good to bring the dress in?
[Megan] Yeah, they can bring those.
[Belle] Yep, we're good for the dress, guys.
[overlapping chatter]
It is too hot in this house.
I'm not nervous. I wanna hurry up.
[Megan] I was definitely getting a little too engulfed in social media.
All I wanted was for somebody to say something good about me.
I was just hoping that somebody would tell the truth.
Somebody got to say something. You want somebody--
especially somebody that got, like, a platform.
You want to feel like somebody got your back,
even if it's a complete fucking stranger.
[overlapping crew chatter]
[Gayle King] How has your life changed since you were shot?
I feel like my anxiety is worse.
I feel like...
my relationship with people is...
it's-it's gotten very cold
'cause I'm not as trusting as I used to be.
I was gonna ask you, is it hard for you to trust people?
What do you say to people that still don't believe that you were actually shot?
I don't think any of this is for them.
Like, it's for me.
- Like, I know this happened to me. - Mm-hmm.
[sniffles]
And I... I'm a victim.
Like, I'm the victim. Like, I don't--
I'm not defending myself against anything.
Like, something happened to me.
W-What was the nature of your relationship with Tory Lanez?
Because he's led, led people to believe that it was a...
sexual relationship, that you two were dating. What was the nature?
- We were not dating. - What was it?
We were really close. We were friends.
We hung out, like, every day. [sniffles] And...
Did you have an intimate relationship with him?
Like, sexual?
- [chuckles] Yeah. Did you have-- - [sighs]
- Did you-- Megan... - [chuckles]
Did you have a sexual relationship with Tory Lanez?
Yes, that's my question.
Um... I didn't have a sexual relationship with Tory.
[overlapping crew chatter]
[grunts]
[Megan] I need to find, like, the new anime.
Take my fucking mind off this shit. [sniffles]
[Farris] Well, it's over with. I mean...
[Megan] It's not, because I feel like,
no disrespect to nobody who is
a-a journalist or interviewer,
but sometimes when I'm talking to these people,
I feel like they trying to get me.
I don't give a fuck about who you fucked.
I don't care about that.
Like, he shot somebody.
But why is everybody so bent on making the juicy story
about some shit that's irrelevant? Like...
It's a cloud, I know.
But you got to figure out how to beat it, you know what I'm saying?
Like, that's the whole thing.
Like, it's gonna keep on coming for you in different ways.
Running from it ain't gonna never be the way to-to get rid of it,
you know what I'm saying? You just got to face it.
And it's just living your life with dealing with it.
I've been knowing Kelsey since... 2013.
- Wow. - I would've never thought
nothing would be able, especially something like money,
be able to get in between me and her being friends.
You just gonna let this man make up a lie about your best friend?
Tell on him!
Like, say something, anything!
[sighs, groans]
Farris...
Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
Everybody hates me.
[pensive music playing]
♪ ♪
[King on video] Megan. Did you have a sexual relationship with Tory Lanez?
Yes, that's my question.
[Megan] Um...
[mockingly] Um!
I didn't have a sexual relationship with Tory.
You fucking lie! [laughing]
And how she answered that question, by the pause,
by the movement of the eye, by looking...
- Then she said, "Who, Tory?" - Right. [laughs]
[commentator] Megan got her ass on national TV
and straight motherfucking lied to that old lady like that.
[DJ Akademiks] You know, I'm not gonna say Meg's a liar in totality...
[guest] But when you lie about one thing, everybody's gonna doubt you
for everything else.
[Megan] Why are we not talking about the goddamn shooting?
Everything has been a distraction from the shooting.
Like, I-I used to be so confident
in myself and I used to be... like, it-it wouldn't have been a time
where anybody would've asked me about fucking somebody
and I would've been like, you know, I would've been like,
"So? Okay, yeah, I did that shit."
Like, I like to fuck.
What about it?
But the way, like, they have villainized me
for being this type of person, it started to make me second-guess...
myself.
Yes, bitch, I lied to Gayle King, bitch.
First of all, I ain't know that bitch was even finna ask me about that shit, bitch.
I thought we was finna talk about the shooting.
Why'd you ask me about fucking Tory?
That's not what this is about.
Even if I was, I fucked a nigga like once.
Maybe twice on a drunk night,
but you kept catching me out of my fucking mind.
Like...
Even sometime they get me off the goddamn track.
Like, when they keep talking about the "fucking" part,
and I find myself consumed in the "fucking" part,
and I'm like, "Wait, this is not what this is about!"
If my mom was here, I wouldn't be going through this.
I wouldn't knew half these people.
I wouldn't have did half this shit.
I think I was just going through a crazy phase of life. Like...
I'll never be able to take back that time of life.
I wasn't no bad person,
but I was definitely drinking like a motherfucker, though.
But I wasn't fighting.
The worst thing I was doing was drinking and fucking.
That's it.
[woman on TV] Obviously, everyone does that shit...
[TV continues indistinctly]
[Megan] Some days I'm super smiley,
and then some days I'm just like, blank, in the bed, crying.
[woman on TV] I'd like to move on from it...
[somber music playing]
[Megan] They have ran my goddamn name
through the ground so bad, like...
And I think it's 'cause of how I am
and what I talk about and what I look like.
[crowd cheering]
I talk back, I fight back.
- [cheering swells] - It's just me.
[cheering continues]
I'm getting tired of it.
[♪ Megan Thee Stallion: "Not Nice"]
♪ Fuck it, bitch, I'm not nice ♪
♪ Ay, I'm on my fuck-you shit, bitch, I'm done being nice ♪
♪ And when it come to cutting people off, I don't think twice ♪
♪ I kept it too real Shit, I kept it too G ♪
♪ And after all I did for bitches This is how they do me ♪
♪ Bitch, I kept your bills paid You were sick, I paid for surgery ♪
♪ God, I pray you put who do me wrong where they deserve to be ♪
♪ I guess my skin not light enough My dialect not white enough ♪
♪ Or maybe I'm just not shaped the way to make these niggas give a fuck ♪
♪ But fuck it 'cause I'm Black Biggie-Biggie Black, ass biggie fat ♪
♪ Not a nigga on this Earth could take the credit for my stats ♪
♪ I'm in Paris, sitting on the terrace ♪
♪ Sippin' tea with Farris ♪
♪ And I know they talkin' down We just too far gone to hear it ♪
♪ Fuck it, bitch, I'm not nice ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Fuck it, bitch, I'm not nice ♪
- Yeah, that's hard. - That's hard.
[Megan] I need to clean it up.
You want to hear the other songs you're working on tonight, or...
- [clears throat] - [Megan] No, I really need to,
um, finish those songs.
[producer] Copy.
[items clattering]
It's empty. You want another one or are you good?
I'm okay.
- [producer] You want some water, tea? - Mm-mmm.
[Megan] When people ask you how you're doing,
do they really want to know how you're doing?
Or is it like a greeting?
Like, "Hey, how you doing?"
But I just be like, "I'm alive."
'Cause that's true.
Can't say if I'm doing bad or good, but I'm alive.
It's been a different process
working on this album, 'cause I'm very uncomfortable.
♪ The perkies these bitches is popping is potent ♪
♪ The shit they be tweeting They got to be smoking ♪
I gotta make this part up 'cause I remember I stopped after that.
♪ Hollywood shit 'cause I'm with all the action... ♪
I'm really trying to make people understand the mind state that I'm in.
I just feel like shit right now.
And I really want to use it as my diary.
[laughter]
I want to call the album Traumazine.
I just want to take everybody through
the things that I felt when I went through what I was going through.
I'm not about to go make a fucking sad song.
- [chuckles] - [Megan] Like, that's just not me.
- Like, back-- right. - I don't make that type of music.
[producer] You want to turn up still.
Right! Bitch, I'm twerking through the crying.
[laughter]
So, that is like, kind of what it is. This is like,
"Damn, I be going through shit, but I be getting through shit."
[Sam] Don't be scared to leave the comfort zone.
I think even someone that doesn't know you is gonna feel like they can relate to it.
Like, get uncomfortable.
- Mm-hmm. - You do that, young girl, we good.
[Megan] I feel like I can never really understand
how to write something I was feeling and actually talk about it.
I usually don't work like this, so we're gonna see what come out today.
[cameraperson chuckling]
[Megan] Usually, I deflect from what I'm really feeling,
so I could be sad as hell and write a song like "Freak Nasty."
And it's hard opening up for millions of people to hear.
Bitch, I said too much on that hook.
Like, what do I want to say?
[producer] Facts.
[Megan] And it wasn't just the shooting that fucked me up.
The betrayal, the constant torture online,
everything that happened after the shooting definitely made it, like,
a hundred times worse.
[hip-hop beat playing quietly]
[Sam] What is the plan?
Um, I probably might want to warm her up a little bit,
'cause I don't know if she's been moving at all.
But I'll ask her when she gets here.
Then we're gonna throw her right in,
and then I just need her to make a choice on some music approvals,
and then we're gonna fucking rehearse it because this is the first time
your girl is ever gonna be solo,
performance on national television,
without dancers on "Plan B."
- Oh, no dancers. - And, like, I think it's the first time
in all her comrades and her generation
where she's gonna be like, fucking, "I am the MC queen."
Up, drop, drop, drop.
Go, drop, drop, drop.
Turn.
Up.
- [dancer] Copy that. - Why that got me out of breath?
- [overlapping chatter] - It's a little workout!
It is! I was trying to get y'all to help me change it.
It's very hard!
I know, but it got to be hard because
- bitches ain't gonna be able to do it. - Didn't I say that?
Come on, dancers, use your gift as weapons!
♪ Slick back ponytail, feeling like I'm Ice-T ♪
♪ You know I love you good Real hood, when you wake up ♪
♪ You know that girl weak If she ain't messing up her makeup ♪
♪ Man, I can't believe I used to let you touch me...
You could add something to make it fuller.
- Yep. - But it was just too many.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
♪ ...hood, when you wake up ♪
♪ You know that girl weak If she ain't messing up her makeup ♪
Okay, cool.
- [instrumental playing] - Sweet.
Let me try it now. But turn, turn my mic on and turn the vocals off.
[overlapping crew chatter]
Is this my bag with-- that's your stuff right here?
- [assistant] Yes, ma'am. - I'm putting my earrings in here.
[sighs]
[cameraperson] You good?
No.
- [crew member 1] Walking. - [crew member 2] Be careful.
[music playing quietly]
[indistinct chatter]
[YouTuber] Things just don't add up in this story,
and I'm sure you guys are starting to realize that.
If a woman makes accusations against you, you're guilty until proven innocent,
which is what's going on right now with Tory, as y'all can see.
They were saying, "Well, if he shot you, why didn't you tell the police?"
She said, "I wanted to protect a Black man."
You have spent the next two years doing everything in your power
to railroad a Black man.
And then she was in the club the next day, wasn't she?
[clicks tongue] Oh, Lord.
Does anyone believe this story?
You think her career's finished?
I think she's finished regardless. Her music's been trash.
Fuck Megan, fuck Horsey.
She dead-ass wrong. She's done. She's done.
[YouTuber] But it's gonna come out in court, man.
He's gonna have his day in court, 'cause they're gonna go to trial.
[indistinct chatter continues]
Okay, I'm gonna go check in. Go in before he runs out.
[Megan] Okay.
- Here's the salt and pepper-- - No, jalapeño kettle chips.
That's all that was in there.
That's it? In them bags that be on the plane?
This was them. Let me check the other ones.
[door closes]
Now I don't even want to eat. [clicks tongue]
[cameraperson] Why you don't want to eat?
Because I had my mouth ready for what I wanted.
I got a billion things to think about all the time.
And then, I be in a mood, but I don't want to offend nobody
by being in a mood, so when I go somewhere,
I be trying to be as present as I can be, and I feel like I be getting annoyed
because I know I don't feel good but I know I'm trying
to act like everything's okay.
And all I wanted to do was come eat the chips I wanted with the fucking...
wrap I wanted.
I feel like my anxiety is always so bad, like, after the shooting.
In some kind of way, like, I've become, like, on a trial publicly.
And I'm just like, I'm giving up.
Like... it just feel like...
What's gonna happen to me next?
Like, who gonna do something to me next?
And why are you doing shit to me?
What did I do?
Like, what did I do?
So now I just feel like everybody...
got something against me or everybody hates me or something.
So, every time I walk in somewhere, I'm like, "Oh, my God.
It's too much. Like, I want to go home."
And I don't want to feel like that.
I just... [crying]
[sniffles] ...I'm just tired of being on edge.
[sniffles] And I'm tired of acting like I'm not on edge.
[sniffles]
At the trial, I'm-a have to go up there and I'm-a have to see these people.
And I don't want to...
I don't want to see none of these motherfuckers.
[sniffles]
I don't know. [sniffles]
I'm just tired. And I'm sleepy.
And I didn't get the food I wanted.
- [cameraperson chuckling] - So now I'm just extra grumpy.
[laughing]
I'm, like, extra fucking grumpy.
I just wanted jalapeño chips.
[cameraperson chuckling]
- [laughs] - They'll go and get 'em.
[laughing]
[both laughing]
[laughing] I need those fucking chips.
The chips-- [laughing]
The chips really spiraled it. [laughing]
Oh, my God, this is why I can't take myself.
Damn it.
[sighs]
[blows nose]
But I ain't no punk-ass bitch either, so...
[both laughing]
- [crowd cheering] - [♪ Megan Thee Stallion: "Plan B"]
♪ Dear broke boy, still can't believe I used to mess with you ♪
♪ Poppin' Plan B's 'cause I ain't planned to be stuck with you ♪
♪ Man, I see you still kick it With them opp ♪
♪ I'm the only reason that your goofy self got women ♪
♪ All them girls wanna look like me... ♪
You see? That's right, baby, she's in!
♪ If you was wondering Yeah, boy, I'm still that ♪
♪ I had to block you But you still gotta watch this **** ♪
♪ 'Cause who you know rock it like me ♪
♪ No bra, tight tees ♪
♪ Slick back ponytail Feeling like I'm Ice-T ♪
[whooping]
♪ Ladies, love yourself 'Cause this could get ugly ♪
♪ That's why it's **** ♪
♪ "Get money" ♪
♪ And I don't give a **** if that **** leave tonight ♪
♪ Because that **** don't run me ♪
♪ You better get on your knees and eat this **** right ♪
♪ Before I have another **** Do it for me ♪
♪ Because **** don't run me, I run **** ♪
♪ Yeah, you's a **** ♪
♪ Hey! ♪
[crowd cheering]
[song ends]
[crowd cheering]
- [Laurieann] Fuck yes! - Whoo!
[all cheering]
[excited shouting]
You did it, baby!
[overlapping chatter]
Guys, she sounded amazing, right?
- So good. - Ate it, ate it, ate it.
[overlapping chatter continues]
[Megan] Sometimes, when I'm too happy, I'm like, "All right,
what's bad about to happen?"
[Megan cheers]
And I want to stop being like that,
because I really want to be present in the good moments.
- Okay! - [crowd cheering]
Thank y'all so much.
First of all, thank you to the Hotties because,
without the Hotties, there would be no Hot Girl Coach.
[crowd cheering]
I want to thank my mama and my grandma-- hey, Granny.
Um, and... [laughs]
I want to just say...
[optimistic music playing]
♪ ♪
[Megan] I don't want to, like, be expecting something bad to happen to me
because I want to be able to realize good things can happen to me.
I do deserve good things to happen to me.
But I did not feel like that for a long time.
[designers speaking French]
[chatter continues in French]
[designer] How late do you rehearse until at night?
[Megan] Um, until, like, 9:00.
- Okay. - Barely got any sleep.
[speaking French]
[designer speaking French]
- You good? - I don't feel good.
- Do you want to take a break? - Mm-mmm.
- [chuckles] - I came here specifically for this.
[laughs] By the way, it's okay to take breaks, too.
It's normal.
[laughs]
[Megan] I think I'm gonna go home.
- Okay. - Do you need anything?
I want to see what Laurieann got for me.
- Yeah, yeah. - [yawns]
All right, I'm good.
Okay. Is it nauseous?
Yeah. And I just feel hot and lightheaded.
Okay, baby.
I just want to get you to touch the mountaintop.
Then let's see how you feel and you can go--
No, I know how I feel.
- Okay. - I don't feel good.
- I can't let you go. - I'm about to throw up.
Okay. [stammers] Okay.
You need me to get you a bucket on the side?
Yeah, so I'll have a bucket waiting on the side.
Let me explain something to you.
[sighs] You know I've never seen anything like you
aside from the greats.
That said, the reality of being a global superstar is this schedule.
People only see what they see on your Instagram.
And see, they don't know how you're built, and they are about to find out.
So, what do you want to do with that?
I mean, I'm in here.
Exactly!
- But I'm about to shake it loose. - I know. [chuckles]
[Laurieann] All right, let's walk it from the top, children.
[crowd chanting] Megan! Megan! Megan!
Megan! Megan! Megan!
Megan! Megan! Megan! Megan!
[crowd cheering]
[Megan] Every time I have to go perform,
I'm like, "What if these people fucking hate me?"
[cheering continues]
I have to really hype myself up.
[cheering swells]
[announcer shouting indistinctly]
Okay!
[cheering continues]
If you a real Hottie, let me hear you say "real hot girl shit."
- [crowd] Real hot girl shit! - [Megan] Real hot girl shit!
[crowd] Real hot girl shit!
Y'all ready to turn the fuck up?
[cheering swells]
Drop that shit.
♪ Hands on my knees Shaking ass, on my thot shit ♪
♪ Post me a pic, finna make me a profit ♪
♪ When the liquor hit Then a bitch get toxic ♪
♪ Why the fuck you in the club When niggas wilding? ♪
♪ I've been lit since brunch, thot shit ♪
♪ Order '42 for the table Let's pop shit ♪
♪ Missionary or doggy-style I'm-a top shit ♪
♪ Pussy-ass niggas hating on me From the closet ♪
♪ Hoes tryna call me a snake Shit, I guess I can relate ♪
♪ 'Cause a bitch Spit a whole lot of venom ♪
♪ And since these hoes all rats When they come around me ♪
♪ All I see is a whole lot of dinner ♪
♪ I walk around the house butt-naked ♪
♪ And I stop at every mirror Just to stare at my own posterior ♪
♪ I don't give a fuck Who talk behind my back ♪
♪ 'Cause the bitch knew better Than to let me hear her ♪
♪ Hands on my knees Shaking ass, on my thot shit ♪
♪ Hands on my knees, shaking ass On my thot shit ♪
[distorting] ♪ Hands on my knees Shaking ass, on my thot shit ♪
♪ Hands on my knees Ha-hands on my knees ♪
♪ Hands on my knees Shaking ass, on my thot shit ♪
♪ Hands on my knees, shaking ass On my thot shit ♪
♪ Hands on my knees Shaking ass, on my thot shit... ♪
[exhale echoes]
[music distorted, muffled]
[exhale echoes]
♪ Hands on my knees Ha-Hands on my knees ♪
[air-raid siren sound effect plays]
[crowd cheering]
Oh, shit. Now, don't start that shit. We just got here.
[laughs]
Y'all are, like, rocking each other too much.
I don't know what's happening.
We not pushing. This is not a dangerous set.
It do not call for all that.
We 'posed to be twerking.
[cheering swells]
Not stomping each other out, okay?
[crowd cheering]
[dramatic music playing]
[Megan] Ever since I've been shot,
I started having anxiety about performing.
♪ ♪
I always think somebody gonna do something to me.
I see so many guys online say, "You should've got shot in the head."
Or, "He should have finished the job,
should've killed your ass."
"You always twerking, bitch. You deserve what you got."
[person] He should have just aimed higher.
Should've head tapped her. Bang.
[Megan] I can't separate trolling from real life.
Am I safe to perform in front of thousands of people?
I don't know who in this crowd.
[gunshots]
And I seem to be the only person who is still fucked up about it.
Throughout this whole experience, I don't understand,
how is Tory looking so happy?
How could you shoot somebody
and be living life like you didn't do none of that shit?
[crowd cheering]
I remember he texts my phone and was like,
"I'm watching you on Live. You look so sad."
And I was like, "This motherfucker is crazy."
[crowd cheering]
I finally had to get a new number, I got a new phone,
and I got a restraining order.
Make some motherfucking noise, Miami!
Going to Rolling Loud, he came on right after me.
[DaBaby] I'll give somebody out here a million dollars
if they can guess who in here.
Y'all make some motherfucking noise for Tory Lanez.
[Megan] You thought that you could pass me up in a mask?
You was just trying to show me, "We can do whatever we want to do."
And then he was chopping up horse legs in his music videos.
[commentator 1] Bro, look at the horse leg. That's a horse leg, bro.
[commentator 2] I think it's Megan's leg. [gasps]
[Megan] They said, like, the "HGS Special."
What is that, the "Hot Girl Special"? Is it "Hot Girl Summer"?
That's really fucking sick.
He was constantly threatening me, and everybody was laughing.
And everybody was supporting him.
[commentator] LeBron is publicly speaking about how good Tory Lanez's music is.
He a solid dude. I fuck with Tory. Free, free my boy, man.
"Free Tory" in the fucking chat, bro.
Free Tory Lanez, too. One time.
[gunfire sound effect plays]
Why did all the men in the industry decide that they needed to jump in?
Yo, you heard DaBaby smashed Megan Thee Stallion multiple times?
He said he did even the day before the bitch got shot.
[Peter Rosenberg] Was there a reason that you felt like you should,
you know, indicate y'all had a relationship of some sort?
"Indicate"?
Or, sorry, clearly say?
It is what it is.
50 Cent trolled the hell out of Megan Thee Stallion.
I don't like that girl.
Meg's a demon, bro!
My man right here, you know him.
He stays in the conversation. What's up, T?
What's going on, my man? How you feeling?
You are one of my favorite R&B artists.
Wow, that... that's it.
[Diddy] But you know I got a mean, toxic side to me.
[laughs]
Now I'm really beating myself up.
I feel like, I'm so tired.
I get in-- 'cause I didn't sleep,
and when I got into bed, finally, I was having nightmares.
[cameraperson] About what?
I don't even want to speak it out loud.
It was, like, crazy.
So now I'm on edge even more.
I feel like I'm waiting for something to happen.
[pensive music playing]
[Megan] Rolling Loud, everybody, put your hands up!
[crowd cheering]
We 'bout to have a motherfucking party up in here right now!
I'm still anxious.
I'm still having nightmares.
I'm still just mentally messed up.
I want people to see how I feel.
I want people to understand how this is affecting me.
But at the same time, I don't...
I don't want people to see me fucked up.
Like, I don't want people to think that I am weak.
Like, I want people to know that I'm...
I want people to see that I'm "strong."
[muffled cheering]
The way that all of this shit is, it don't seem real.
I can only pray that the right thing happens at the trial.
[crowd cheering]
♪ ♪
[air cannons blasting]
♪ ♪
Okay. So, first thing, so you'll do--
That's the show, day off.
U.K. festival-- not in London, but, like, in the country--
- Mm-hmm. - U.K. festival in the country,
day off, Hottie Party.
I feel like I'm going crazy, Sam. Like...
Like, I'm about to lose my mind, and I feel like I need to stop.
And just rest?
- Yes. - Yeah.
- Like, after-- - You don't have--
Here, my job is to prevent-- present you things.
You don't have to say yes to everything.
Right. But after Brazil...
Yeah?
Take a minute?
Yes. I need to collect my motherfucking thoughts.
I-I think that's healthy. I think that would--
The only other hard thing we have confirmed is the 23rd,
that iHeart show.
You're open until that 23rd, and then,
following that, you're pretty much open till October 2nd,
unless you go to Paris Fashion Week.
October 4th is the Forbes thing you agreed to.
Got to do that.
Yep. And then the following week's SNL.
- Got to do that. - You got to do that.
And then you're free. Your calendar is really open
until Australia and New Zealand, which is a month later.
I don't know, man. I just feel like I'm losing my mind a little bit.
Well, I don't want you to lose your mind.
- Me, either. - Okay.
So when am I gonna get to sit the fuck down?
But other than that...
[Mayor Sylvester Turner] I want to thank all of the department heads,
all of the others who are here from various organizations.
Uh, thank you all for-for being, for being present.
Let me just say, good afternoon
and welcome, everyone, to Houston City Hall.
Uh, today we are proud and excited
to honor Houston's own, Megan Thee Stallion.
[whooping, applause]
The key to the city of Houston
symbolizes that the recipient has the authority
to enter and leave the city at any time.
[laughter]
And, Megan, you have lifted H-Town up all over the world.
Today your hometown just want to say "thank you" and lift you up.
[cheering, applause]
[indistinct chatter]
Lydia!
Is that Phoebekah?
- Here's your girl. - [gasps]
These are for you.
- Thank you. [gasps] - From your niece.
And this is your niece.
- I done tried to keep her up. - Phoebe! Let me see her.
[Megan] It's hard trying to navigate through this world and this industry
and stay the same person that you were when you came in.
And it's hard to find good people, so when you do find somebody
that's good, I feel like you got to hold on to them.
Lydia! Come get this picture with me and your baby.
Bitch, your whole head blue, bitch.
- I know. I just dyed it this morning. - [laughs]
[Megan] Lydia is my dawg. It's my real cousin.
We've been knowing each other through every process of our life.
She's just safe. I know... I know she got my back no matter what,
and I got her-her back no matter what.
[both laugh]
This girl do not talk to me like I'm Megan Thee Stallion.
We've been knowing each other through every stage of our life.
[indistinct chatter]
But whatever I got to do, whatever celebration is going on right now,
it could be so many people in a room
and I feel like I'm the only person in there.
I feel lonely in every relationship in my life.
And it's nothing that nobody can help.
No matter how hard you try to be my friend, like,
in my head, I'm really on Mars.
Okay.
[Megan] I'm here but I'm not here.
- Bye, y'all. - Thank you.
Thank you!
What we about to do? We about to go home and go outside?
Um, actually, I just wanted to go by my mama graveside real quick.
Y'all ain't even got to jump out or nothing.
I just never been.
[somber music playing]
♪ ♪
[Nadeska] You know, it's crazy all the things you've achieved
in the past couple years, all the awards.
- It's like, milestone after milestone-- - [Megan] Yeah. [chuckles]
[Nadeska] And then it blows my mind to hear her on the album
say that she still feels like she's not doing enough.
When I would do something good, my mama could say, "Good job."
"That was good," you know? "We did that."
But now when I do ..., it's like, "Okay?"
Like, "What's next?"
'Cause I don't know if I'm doing that good of a job.
I feel like by now, I would have been able to, like,
get my ... together when I talk about my mama,
but every time I talk about my mama, I cannot hold it together.
But I don't know why that's something you think you should be able to do.
It's your mom.
But I know my mama, and she would be like, "Girl."
[chuckles] "Get your ... together."
[laughter]
[crowd cheering]
[Jimmy Fallon] Awesome.
Uh, can we talk about Traumazine?
- Uh, yes! - This is a big deal.
- This is a huge deal. - This is out at midnight.
This is out basically right now.
- It's out. - Yes.
- It's out! Yes. - [crowd cheering]
You said this is the-- your most personal and honest album.
Yeah.
[interviewer] What was the response to the album, like, the first day?
[sniffles] I couldn't even tell you. I don't know.
[chuckles] I don't remember.
I, like, really blacked a lot of that part of my life out.
[somber music playing]
[radio crew member] Welcome. Hello.
- Hello! - [Nicole Ryan] Here she is!
- Hi! Hello, hello. - [Megan] My album is out.
I was so on edge about the album, 'cause this is, like,
the first time I've ever been so personal.
- Yeah. - I go through so much
and I feel like I just always keep it inside
and I always just... just keep working through it.
But now I'm kind of feeling like, "Dang, it's..."
- You have to deal with it. - I have to deal with this.
[Megan] To me, Traumazine basically means facing yourself.
To accept what you've been through and come out on the other end
as the person that you see yourself becoming or that you want to be.
[group cheering]
[Nadeska] When I see you, you're always smiling,
you're having fun.
You're one of the busiest people I've ever seen.
But then, to hear that, behind all these smiles, you're hiding tears?
And that's a track to me like "Anxiety."
- [Darden] Right. - [Megan] Mm-hmm.
It's one of the most upbeat songs on the album.
Yeah.
But then it's also one of the saddest songs.
[Megan] Some of the songs on Traumazine are definitely me, like, venting.
Like, I feel like the album is more for me than it is for everybody else.
[♪ Megan Thee Stallion: "Anxiety"]
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ I'm a bad bitch, and I got bad anxiety ♪
♪ People call me rude 'Cause I ain't letting 'em try me ♪
♪ Sayin' I'm a ho 'cause I'm in love with my body ♪
♪ Issues, but nobody I could talk to about it ♪
♪ They keep saying I should get help ♪
♪ But I don't even know what I need ♪
♪ They keep saying speak your truth ♪
♪ And at the same time Say they don't believe, man ♪
♪ Excuse me while I get Into my feelings for a second ♪
♪ Usually I keep it in But today I got to tell it ♪
♪ Not that anybody gives a fuck anyway ♪
♪ But everybody talking shit Probably sucks anyway ♪
♪ Y'all don't even know how I feel ♪
♪ I don't even know how I deal ♪
♪ Today I really hate everybody ♪
♪ And that's just me being real, yeah ♪
♪ Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday ♪
♪ Bad **** have bad days, too ♪
♪ Friday, Saturday, Sunday, bounce back ♪
♪ How a bad **** always do ♪
♪ All I really wanna hear is "It'll be okay" ♪
♪ Bounce back 'cause a bad **** Can have bad days ♪
♪ All I really wanna hear is "It'll be okay" ♪
♪ Bounce back 'cause a bad **** Can have bad days ♪
♪ If I could write a letter to heaven ♪
♪ I would tell my mama that I should've been listening ♪
♪ And I would tell her sorry That I really been wildin' ♪
♪ And ask her to forgive me 'Cause I really been trying ♪
♪ And I would ask please Show me who been real ♪
♪ And get 'em from around me If they all been fake ♪
♪ It's crazy how I say the same prayer To the Lord ♪
♪ And I always get surprised By who he take, man ♪
♪ Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday ♪
♪ Bad **** have bad days, too ♪
♪ Friday, Saturday, Sunday, bounce back ♪
♪ How a bad **** always do **** ♪
I think we should, we should not be in here.
- Is she-- Is she crying? - I don't think it's a good thing.
- Huh? - I don't think that's a good thing.
I think she's stressed out.
♪ All I really wanna hear is "It'll be okay" ♪
♪ Bounce back 'cause a bad **** Can have bad days ♪
[team member] Is it just the song?
- Yeah, it might be that. - Maybe it's just the song.
[overlapping chatter]
Oh, my God. She got a standing ovation in the hallway.
[all cheering]
Was my hair good?
- Perfect! - Was my makeup good?
- [team] Yes. - Okay.
[producer] Everything was good. You look beautiful, girl.
Goddamn it. I ain't want to cry. [chuckles]
[team member 2] Every time you sing that song, you get emotional.
I ain't gonna cry next time. [sniffs]
I hope. [laughs]
When I say you've been killing it, like...
- It was beautiful. - [Megan] Was I pretty?
[team member 2] It was pretty. It was pretty. Band was living.
Like, it's-it's a viral moment already.
- Oh, yeah. It's all over. Yeah. - Is it?
Everybody's going crazy.
♪ I can't even handle smoking weed ♪
♪ Marilyn Monroe, my favorite **** ♪
♪ My favorite bad **** I think she the GOAT ♪
♪ Jamming to Britney Singing to Whitney... ♪
[Megan] Thank y'all to everybody at SNL that really held me down!
- [crowd cheering] - And thank you to the Hotties,
because without the Hotties, there would be no Hot Girl Coach, ah!
Good night!
[all cheering]
[band playing Saturday Night Live theme]
[people cheering, whooping]
- [man] Come on, cake! - Cute.
Oh, that's beautiful. Beautiful...
- Did my hair look good? - [person] It did, yeah.
- Okay. - [laughter]
[whooping, cheering]
- Good job, Meg! - She like, "First and foremost..."
- [team member 1] Beautiful. - [team member 2] Cheers.
Cheers.
[indistinct chatter]
[Megan] I look like I got on a diaper, bitch.
What are you talking about?
Megan, let it go.
- Hmm? - [Roach] It's good. It's still good.
It is still good.
- From start to finish. - I didn't even notice.
- I ain't notice, either. - Megan, I came in here crying.
[Roach] Let it go.
Bitch, do you know what you just did?
You say "shake this shit off" right now, 'cause you're gonna make me mad
if you do this.
You're gonna make me mad if you don't understand how good this shit was.
- Don't make me mad at you. - I know.
But you killed that.
I'm not even playing with you.
Like, I'm not even playing.
Just, next time, let's make sure my shit...
[Roach] Uh-huh. I see it. You see it.
The world ain't gonna see it.
We looking at it, though. Me and you looking at it.
People ain't gonna look-- Overall, from start to finish,
the shit was perfect. Every-Every look was perfect.
Whatever.
- Not gonna change it. - Megan, I'm proud of you.
- Thanks, love. - You killed it, MTS. Killed it.
[sighs]
[groans]
[Roach laughs]
[somber music playing]
[news anchor] Rapper Megan Thee Stallion
was in New York rehearsing for Saturday Night Live
when her California home was broken into.
[news anchor 2] Megan Thee Stallion was here in New York City
rehearsing for her appearance on SNL,
and the home invaders apparently knew she'd be away.
[commentator] So, the Internet is going wild.
It appears that Drake is dissing Megan Thee Stallion.
[commentator 2] If Drizzy Drake says Meg is lying, she's lying.
[commentator 3] All right, now, Megan Thee Stallion and Tory Lanez,
their trial has been continued.
Prosecutor estimates jury selection will start December 5th.
[commentator 4] And, Meg, if you're lying, your career is over.
[dramatic music playing]
[fan] Could we take a selfie?
Thank you.
[indistinct chatter]
Thank you, Meg.
[chatter continues]
Bye, y'all!
♪ ♪
I really want to speak this out clearly,
so I don't want to cry while I'm saying it.
I had really had, like, a real breakdown.
[thunder rumbling]
[breathes deeply]
My mind was just so black and, like, dark
and everything was ugly through my eyes.
I'm really lonely.
And I didn't feel like I was worthy,
and I didn't feel like my life had any kind of value.
It was, like, to the point to where I had to call 911 because I can't breathe.
[crying echoes]
[laughter]
When you go through something traumatic,
your brain don't put it in the right place.
[screaming]
[gunshot]
So, I had to keep going over the shooting,
in my mind, with a therapist every day.
But she was teaching me how to process it correctly.
- What does a safe space look like? - [gunshots]
Picture a place where you would feel the most calm.
I don't know the last time I been safe.
I don't know the last time I felt calm.
[children laughing]
You got to fight so hard to get out of this space.
I can't give up.
[sighs] All right.
[sirens wailing in distance]
- [assistant] Well, hey. - Why y'all got this shit set up...
like a crime scene?
[laughter]
- Hey. - [assistant] How are you?
- [Megan] I'm good. How you doing? - [assistant] Good.
Long time no see.
- [Megan] Nneka. - [Nneka] What up?
Bitch... ducked off.
[laughs] In my own world.
[Nneka] You okay?
I am okay.
Like, I had went to... [laughs]
It's gonna sound stupid, but I went to, like...
a wellness retreat,
and I took, like, so many different types of therapies,
and I just feel like a new bitch. [chuckles]
- Oh, really? - Yes, like...
I don't know. I guess I'll tell you about it later,
- but... - Mm-hmm.
I know you missed this ass.
[Nneka laughs]
[both laughing]
[Megan sighs]
I thought I was about to die before I left to go to therapy, like...
- [Nneka] Mm-hmm. - Uh, it was like three days...
...three days I did not get out the bed, and I never felt like this in my life.
Like, I couldn't get out the bed.
Like, I was here, actually, and I just stayed under c-covers,
and I cried every day, and it... it wa...
I'm crying about everything, but I just could not move,
and I never felt like that ever.
And I never... [stammers] ...have been a suicidal person.
I never been somebody who just wanted to be like,
"Oh, fuck it, I don't want to be here," but I had... I was feeling like that.
I was like, "I don't... I would rather not live through this
than to have to live with this."
Court start tomorrow,
and I'm just ready for everybody to eat their motherfucking words,
and everybody gonna have to eat my motherfucking ass, actually,
'cause that's all everybody gonna see.
I'm-a stay with my back turned to motherfuckers.
- Bitch, ass gonna stay spread. - [Nneka laughs]
[laughing] Every... Bitch, I'm-a stay bent over.
[both laugh]
I don't even want no apologies.
Like, I feel like I'm past that, too.
Like, I'm just like, "Oh, I don't even care."
[somber music playing]
[friend] Good night.
- Tory! - We support Tory.
Stick to the side, guys.
- To the side, please. - [overlapping chatter]
Good luck, Tory. Don't prosecute an innocent man.
Thank you, man. Appreciate y'all. Have a nice day, all right?
You, too.
[reporter 1] A jury trial is scheduled to begin today
for rapper Tory Lanez.
He is accused of shooting Megan Thee Stallion.
[Megan] It's not that I don't have faith in the truth,
because I know I'm telling the truth.
I don't know what's gonna happen, and that's making me nervous.
[reporter 2] During opening statements, Tory's team laid out a whole theory.
[reporter 3] They were saying that this shooting
basically amounted to a catfight,
a jealousy-fueled explosion between Kelsey and Megan.
How do you think it's going, Tory? You feeling confident?
You know what they say about men in pink, right? [laughs]
[reporter] It looks good. Looks good.
[reporter 4] Now, Megan Thee Stallion is expected to testify that it was
Tory Lanez that shot her that night.
[reporter 5] Tory's lawyer has been really up-front that he's gonna be
questioning Megan about her inconsistent statements.
[reporter 6] Did you get the sense Megan's credibility
is gonna be a big issue?
[reporter 7] Absolutely.
[Megan] There are a lot of women who go through things
and they feel like nobody will believe them
and they feel like nobody will care,
so they don't want to fight and they don't want to speak up.
Megan, why you lying on that boy?
- Why're you lying on that boy? - Is it the truth or a lie?
You look good in that purple!
[Megan] But I feel like, "Okay, you got to be strong."
'Cause I know somebody somewhere going through something similar.
[dramatic music playing]
This is like my final battle, my last fight.
[indistinct chatter]
When walking into the courtroom-- Well, I came in there trying to be tough.
But inside I was in shambles.
[crying]
[laughter]
[person 1] Megan is a liar.
[person 2] No bullet holes.
[person 3] Megan Thee Stallion did not get shot.
- [person 4] I don't think Megan got shot. - [person 5] You don't think so?
- [person 6] Free Tory Lanez! - [person 7] Free Tory! No evidence--
[person 7] I think she's finished regardless.
[person 8] She's done. She's done.
[jarring music playing]
[Megan] But then I thought,
"I need to show up for Megan Pete."
[hopeful music playing]
[gunshot]
[thunder rumbling]
[tape rewinding]
It just really clicked to me, today is not about trying to look strong.
It's okay to be sad.
I need to stop avoiding it.
[waves crashing]
[laughter]
[triumphant music playing]
[reporter 1] Highly anticipated testimony today.
Rapper Megan Thee Stallion testified about what she says happened
on the night of July 12, 2020.
[reporter 2] How you feeling, Megan?
[reporter 3] It wasn't just what she said happened,
it's how she said it.
She was really emotional in court today.
[reporter 4] Outside the courthouse, fans rallied to show their support,
holding up a "We Stand With Megan" banner.
[reporter 5] I heard it was a packed courtroom.
[reporter 6] I really got the impression that everyone around me
was just hanging on everyone's word.
[reporter 7] Morning, Kelsey. How you doing today?
[Charles Latibeaudiere] As Tory Lanez's trial is heating up,
Megan's former best friend Kelsey took the stand, and it turned into total chaos.
[person 1] Gonna tell the truth? Gonna tell the truth?
[person 2] Is it the truth or a lie? The truth will set you free!
[reporter 8] Kelsey Harris testified,
and the prosecution called her as a witness
because they thought she was gonna come in,
identify Tory as the shooter and pretty much help them make this case.
That did not happen.
She basically is saying today that she doesn't remember any of the events
that took place when the shooting occurred.
Kelsey got up there and blew their whole shit up.
And the defense had a huge lead today.
Do y'all really think that he deserves to go to prison for this shit?
When it's this fucking messy?
Isn't this all favorable to Tory Lanez?
Because if I'm Tory Lanez's defense team, I'm trying to confuse the jury.
There's no smoking gun coming.
This is he-said, she-said, but the bodyguard
who is the neutral party? Nobody can find that nigga.
The D.A. just seems like they don't have all their ducks in order,
and Tory's lawyer is coming with some shit.
[indistinct chatter]
[Megan] How far are we from the house?
I think, um...
At some point, I'm supposed to get on the phone with the D.A.
- [team member] Uh-huh. - So...
[team member] Look at this. That's bright.
[Megan chuckles]
- We at that house. - [Megan] Mm-hmm.
[team member] With all the lights.
[Megan] I have not been to no house
- with Christmas decorations in years. - Mm-hmm.
[Megan] Mmm.
[indistinct chatter]
[cameraperson] You happy to be home?
I'm actually really happy to be home.
[team member] Meg!
But I got to, uh, get on this call with the D.A.s in a little bit.
I don't know what's gonna happen.
But I know the D.A.s wouldn't have this much faith in me,
they wouldn't have this much faith in this case,
they wouldn't be standing on it this tough
if they didn't believe it, if they didn't know it.
I'm praying for the right outcome.
I'm praying that the right people make the right decision.
[pensive music playing]
[reporter 1] Now to the trial of Tory Lanez.
Jury deliberations now underway after hearing closing arguments.
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
[cameraperson] What are you feeding?
[Megan] Turtles. I want to stick a fishing rod
in here and see what I can catch. [chuckles]
How'd you sleep last night?
Um...
Did I sleep?
[sputters]
[toy squeaking]
This shit has been going on for so long.
Finally, today it's coming to an end.
Like, today we gonna see if the truth--
if truth does win or if you can bullshit your way through life.
I just keep waiting for my phone to buzz.
- [indistinct chatter] - [Lydia] Ooh!
[babbles]
Oh, mama.
- [crying] - Aw.
[Megan] Phoebe!
[Lydia] Look at your auntie, Phee!
Phoebenah!
My girl.
Come on.
That-- Wrong way. Where you going?
[laughter]
Oh! My girl.
[Lydia] Look at her! Look at you.
- [Megan] Phoebe. Shh! - [dog barking]
Shh! No!
He said, "I'm the only baby around this motherfucker."
Phoebe!
This is how my-- Like, I have every picture of Megan when she--
- [cameraperson] From when she was younger? - Uh-huh. When we-- Yes.
Like, we were thick as thieves.
[cameraperson] Oh, my God. Look at her.
[Lydia] She still looks the same, doesn't she? [laughs]
Yeah, I was causing trouble back then. Look.
When the situation first happened,
- I call her... - [babbling]
I see her laying in the hospital, but it didn't ding to me.
So, I'm just talking to her, I'm talking to her, I'm talking to her.
And then I just stopped and I was like, "Bitch, are you in the hospital?"
And she was like, "Where you at?"
Like, "Who you around?" And I knew it was serious.
So, when she told me,
I immediately was like,
"Are you gonna, like, call the police on him? He needs to go to jail."
Course, she didn't want to call the police.
You know, she didn't want to do that.
Because she's always been that type of person like,
"You hurt me, I'm-a just leave you alone and go on about my business."
She was there for me through the test of time,
so I would never turn my back on her.
And she need-- she need love, man.
Everybody need love, bruh.
[pensive music playing]
[Megan] I want this win more than just for me.
Because if it wasn't me, and I was on the outside looking in,
and something had happened to me, I wouldn't want to come forward.
If this famous lady can have this happen to her
and nothing get done about it,
what the fuck do that say for a person who is just a civilian?
Who don't have the resources to fight?
Who can't afford a lawyer?
Who can't do shit for theyself but come forward and just tell the truth?
What do that say for them?
♪ ♪
[crickets chirping]
My body is having, like, all kind of reactions right now.
[phone chimes]
Count one.
They got him for the highest charges.
What's up?
[quietly] What's up?
[sobbing]
It's over. It's over.
[sobbing continues]
[optimistic music playing]
[inhales deeply]
Oh, my God!
[crying]
- It's over. - [sobbing]
Oh, my goodness. You're strong.
- You're so strong. - [sobbing] Oh, my God.
[sobbing continues]
♪ ♪
[sobbing] Thank you so much.
Oh. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Thank you, God.
Like, goddamn.
[sobbing] Goddamn.
Ooh, shit.
If-If I ain't never think it was a God before--
[laughing] Motherfucker, I do now.
Oh, my God.
Mmm.
♪ ♪
[laughing, crying]
- [celebratory chatter] - Merry Christmas!
Give auntie a hug.
[Harvey Levin] A jury has now spoken, just minutes ago.
A jury in Downtown Los Angeles found Tory Lanez guilty.
[Latibeaudiere] This whole case has ended with him being sentenced
to ten years in prison.
[indistinct chatter]
[Megan] I really thought that
once he got sentenced and once he went off to jail, like,
I was gonna be a new woman.
And I thought I was gonna be great, and I could just go be
the Megan Thee Stallion I always wanted to be.
No.
I still, every day, have to
deal with people mad at me because I said what happened to me.
But I do feel like I'm getting in a place where
I really don't care.
I need to care about my damn self.
Hello!
My cousin!
- Hello! - I was like, who is this blonde...
[Megan] For the first time since my mama was alive,
I'm taking care of myself, 'cause I want to feel good.
Like, everything I do is for me.
And I don't feel like I'm operating at one million percent now,
but I definitely feel like I'm operating better.
Like, I do feel hopeful on what's next for me.
[♪ Megan Thee Stallion: "Cobra"]
And I'm really locked in on my music.
I'm manifesting happiness.
I've been really feeling it lately.
- Yes! - [applause]
Bwa, bwa, bwa, bwa, bwa, bwa, bwa!
[Rachel Smith] Well, what can we expect
in this new era of music for you?
I feel like I'm in such a fresh space.
- [Smith] Yeah? - [Megan] Like, everything about me is new.
My attitude. I've been very vocal about what my goals are.
Just as a snake sheds its skin,
we must shed our past.
♪ Breaking down and I had the whole world watching ♪
♪ But the worst part is really who watched me ♪
♪ Every night I cried, I almost died ♪
♪ And nobody close tried to stop it ♪
♪ Long as everybody getting paid, right? ♪
♪ Everything'll be okay, right? ♪
♪ I'm winning, so nobody trippin' ♪
♪ Bet if I ever fall off Everybody go missing ♪
[reporter 1] 2024 may as well be the Year of Thee Stallion.
And the three-time Grammy winner is showing no signs of slowing down.
[Megan] My vibe. I feel like I'm starting a new chapter in my life.
I can't wait for y'all to hear the album.
Y'all are gonna scream.
The tour is gonna be great.
- [crowd cheering] - [Megan] You look like you need
some real hot girl shit!
[crowd cheering]
And what I really want the Hotties to do
is focus on being nice and kind and positive.
'Cause, bitch, that's what we do.
[cheering swells]
[Randall Lane] You've talked about your own personal mental health.
Is that something you're gonna move into?
- I have a new website. - Yep.
Just letting everybody know where you can get help.
There are people that are willing to listen.
And you are heard, and you should be able to speak to somebody and feel safe.
We got to talk about it, we got to holler about it,
we got to scream about it.
No matter how hard it is, no matter how stressful it is.
To be heard, you have to speak.
♪ This pussy depressed, hmm ♪
♪ I'm about to stress him, yeah ♪
♪ Pink nails round his neck, huh ♪
♪ But this ain't domestic, ay ♪
♪ Think it's going down, ha ♪
♪ Now he stand corrected, ay ♪
♪ This pussy depressed, hmm ♪
♪ I'm about to stress him, ay ♪
[Megan] I know my mama would be proud of me.
♪ ♪
[song ends]
[♪ Megan Thee Stallion featuring John Legend: "The Last Ones"]
♪ To be faithful ♪
- ♪ I don't want ♪ - ♪ I talk to you in prayers ♪
♪ 'Cause I can't talk to you in person ♪
♪ Achieved so many things Don't know how I had the courage ♪
♪ I wonder if you proud Wonder what you would say now ♪
♪ Wonder if you were still here Who I wouldn't be around ♪
♪ It's just so hard without you ♪
♪ I don't feel smart without you Confidence is lost without you ♪
♪ Can't say your name 'cause I still tear up when I talk about you ♪
♪ I hate that every day I wake up And it start without you ♪
♪ Be hard to see who good for me Because it's dark without you ♪
♪ And all the **** I'm doing now We used to dream about it ♪
♪ I'm working O.T. So it ain't no time to think about it ♪
♪ I took your love for granted Never thought I'd be without it ♪
♪ And all that **** we used to talk I got to be about it ♪
♪ It's only one of me ♪
♪ I'm the last one Putting water on my family tree ♪
♪ I wear my name across my chest Like a employee ♪
♪ You know my alias You don't know Megan P ♪
♪ How many of your people survived? ♪
♪ How many gone before they time? ♪
♪ How many of your peoples done died? ♪
♪ I ain't gon' lie, man, it look like ♪
♪ We the last ones left ♪
♪ I ain't gon' lie That's what it look like, yeah ♪
♪ I ain't gon' lie, that's what it look like ♪
♪ We the last ones left ♪
- ♪ Never noticed ♪ - ♪ I can't lie, it look like ♪
♪ We the last ones left ♪
♪ How many of your people survived? ♪
♪ How many gone before they time? ♪
♪ How many of your peoples done died? ♪
♪ I ain't gon' lie, man, it look like ♪
♪ We the last ones left ♪
♪ I ain't gon' lie, that's what it look like, yeah ♪
♪ I ain't gon' lie That's what it look like ♪
♪ We the last ones left ♪
♪ I can't lie, it look like we the last ones left ♪
♪ To be faithful ♪
♪ I don't want ♪
♪ To be faithful ♪
♪ Never, never noticed ♪
♪ To be faithful ♪
♪ How many of your people survived? ♪
♪ How many gone before they time? ♪
♪ How many of your peoples done died? ♪
♪ I ain't gon' lie, man, it look like ♪
♪ We the last ones left ♪
♪ I ain't gon' lie That's what it look like, yeah ♪
♪ I ain't gon' lie, that's what it look like ♪
♪ We the last ones left ♪
- ♪ Never noticed ♪ - ♪ I can't lie, it look like ♪
♪ We the last ones left ♪
♪ How many of your people survived? ♪
♪ How many gone before they time? ♪
♪ How many of your peoples done died? ♪
♪ I ain't gon' lie, man, it look like ♪
♪ We the last ones left ♪
♪ I ain't gon' lie That's what it look like, yeah ♪
♪ I ain't gon' lie That's what it look like ♪
♪ We the last ones left ♪
♪ I can't lie, it look like We the last ones left ♪
♪ To be faithful ♪
♪ Never, never noticed ♪
[song fades]
♪ ♪
[music ends]