Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words (2024) Movie Script

1
[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 Beyonc. [laughs] Like...
- [interviewer] Okay, yeah.
- But Beyonc...
[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 Beyonc.
She done drop a "Savage"
remix with Beyonc?
[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.
[Dulc 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, jalapeo 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 jalapeo 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?
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.
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]