If you’re on social media, then you’ve seen the #SavageChallenge that has taken the world by storm. A month ago, 19-year-old Keara “Keke” Wilson hopped on TikTok with a few dance moves she strung together to match up with “Savage,” a track from Megan Thee Stallion. The Suga song quickly went viral—along with the teen’s dance moves—and it became a phenomenon. People of all ages and backgrounds from around the world became “classy, bougie, ratchet,” making Megan’s song a hit.

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“Courtney Cox did it, and Jessica Alba,” Megan told Jimmy Fallon for a social distancing segment of The Tonight Show. “Freaking Janet Jackson! Taraji [P. Henson].” Jimmy couldn’t believe that Janet Jackson got in on the trend. “All the ladies were posting it and I was like ‘Janet Jackson! You know me?‘ Now we follow each other on Instagram and I’m like, I win. Janet Jackson follows me on Instagram. Everybody else can go away.”

Aside from freaking out about her connection to the Rhythm Nation icon, Megan Thee Stallion speaks about being in her senior year of college and her aspirations of opening a senior assisted-living care facility. She said that it was her own family that prompted her interest in helping elders after watching her grandmother take care of her great-grandmother. She added that she also plans on giving her classmates jobs once they graduate because it’s difficult to find work after leaving college. Check it out below.

With all this time locked in the house, people are spending their time serving out thirst traps. Megan Thee Stallion has never been shy about sharing sexy photos and videos on social media, as she regularly twerks with friends or poses in revealing outfits. So, there wasn’t anything strange about the Suga rapper flexing her figure recently.

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In the photo, Megan poses for a selfie while holding her shirt up to show off her waist as she cups her breast. “Sassy moody nasty ?,” the rapper wrote in the caption to the revealing photo, referencing her viral hit “Savage.” There were tens of thousands of responses that flooded her comment section from her friends and fans that wanted to tell her how good she looked.

One of her admirers was Boosie Badazz who said he was trying to get a closer inspection. “Thought I saw a nipple I had to zoom n lol ?,” the rapper penned. YBN Almighty Jay was also letting his presence be known when he wrote, “What’s Hannin?” Slim Thug, B. Simone, Justin Skye, and Yung Baby Tate also approved of Meg’s look. Check out Megan Thee Stallion showing off some skin below.

She’s recently shared her latest EP Suga with the world, and now Megan Thee Stallion is breaking down her lyrics. The Houston rapper recently sat down with Genius for their Verified series as she analyzed the bars to her hit song “B.I.T.C.H.” The Suga track samples Tupac Shakur’s classic song “Ratha Be Ya N*gga,” and Megan Thee Stallion explained why she decided to borrow from the late rapper’s hit.

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“I super love Tupac. N.I.G.G.A. is like on my playlist, so, I’m just listening to it and I’m like, Hell nah. This would sound good if a girl really flipped it,” she said. “I really like the way Tupac speaks. Like, his cadence. His flow. He’s just very dominant. He just give big talk energy and I just feel like I do the same. When he talkin’, he just really be talkin’ that sh*t that I like. I feel like when my Hotties listenin’ to me, that’s how they feel.”

Although her “B.I.T.C.H” lyrics make it sound as if Megan is the type of person to fight another woman over a man, the rapper said she’s never done that in her life. She also mentioned that she has had men come into her life who have attempted to tell her how to act. Of course, the rapper didn’t name names, but she said someone tried putting their foot down and telling her she couldn’t twerk on her fans during her live show—and she wasn’t having any of that. Check out Megan Thee Stallion chop it up with Genius for Verified below.

She’s recently shared her latest EP Suga with the world, and now Megan Thee Stallion is breaking down her lyrics. The Houston rapper recently sat down with Genius for their Verified series as she analyzed the bars to her hit song “B.I.T.C.H.” The Suga track samples Tupac Shakur’s classic song “Ratha Be Ya N*gga,” and Megan Thee Stallion explained why she decided to borrow from the late rapper’s hit.

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“I super love Tupac. N.I.G.G.A. is like on my playlist, so, I’m just listening to it and I’m like, Hell nah. This would sound good if a girl really flipped it,” she said. “I really like the way Tupac speaks. Like, his cadence. His flow. He’s just very dominate. He just give big talk energy and I just feel like I do the same. When he talkin’, he just really be talkin’ that sh*t that I like. I feel like when my Hotties listenin’ to me, that’s how they feel.”

Although her “B.I.T.C.H” lyrics make it sound as if Megan is the type of person to fight another woman over a man, the rapper said she’s never done that in her life. She also mentioned that she has had men come into her life who have attempted to tell her how to act. Of course, the rapper didn’t name names, but she said someone tried putting their foot down and telling her she couldn’t twerk on her fans during her live show—and she wasn’t having any of that. Check out Megan Thee Stallion chop it up with Genius for Verified below.

If there is one thing Megan Thee Stallion likes to do, it’s twerk. The Suga rapper regularly takes to social media to show off her skills and if you’ve seen her live shows, then you know twerking is a staple in her performance. However, there is a growing number of people who have taken issues with Megan Thee Stallion paying so much attention to her backside. Fans and foes alike have told the rapper that she twerks too much.

 “I don’t know when it happened, that sometimes people get offended by twerking,” Genius shared in a clip of Megan chatting with them during an interview. “But that sh*t is crazy. Like, I love to throw my ass. I love to shake my ass. That’s one of my favorite things to do. And I be seeing motherf*ckers be like, ‘All you do is shake yo’ ass.‘ I be like, ‘Damn. Actually, I got to school and I rap and sometime I be cookin’. I’m a dog mom. I’m an awesome friend. It’s not all I be doing, it’s just that maybe when you loggin’ in, you came to see me twerk, ’cause you ain’t see that freestyle I just dropped? I can rap and twerk.”

Watch Megan Thee Stallion talk twerking with Genius below.

Megan the Stallion is coming off the release of her new project Suga, which saw a rocky and tumultuous rollout thanks to legal woes with her label who was trying to stop it. However thankfully, Megan was granted the release by a judge and ended up releasing Suga last Friday, featuring Kehlani and Gunna.

Now a week after being out, the first week sales numbers are in and they’re a tad lower than what some may expect. According to Hits Double Daily, Suga sold just under 44K units with 43,882 copies in its opening week. But then again, she didn’t have any label support or backing, and pretty much dropped it out of nowhere so it’s not that bad. In comparison though, Lil Uzi Vert landed himself the #1 album of the week with Eternal Atake, selling a whopping 310K units in his opening week.

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For what it’s worth, Megan made it clear that Suga wasn’t her debut album, but just something to give to her fans while she continues to work on her debut. “This is not even my album. This is what I had to put out right now so my fans can have music from me… I was literally putting together an album that was longer. These are songs that I started to record that were gonna make the album but I’m not done recording my album. I have a lot of experiences that I’m going through still, places I’m visiting. I’m just catching different vibes” she said about the project.

It goes without saying but there was a lot of musical heat released upon us on March 6, ranging from the smooth serenading of Jhené Aiko on her third studio album CHILOMBO to the short-but-sweet rap stylings from Meg Thee Stallion on her debut LP SUGA. Although he didn’t release anything new last week, Tory Lanez decided to show love to all the homies that dropped bangers with an emphasis on one emcee in particular.

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After giving props to Meg, in addition to Lil Baby’s My Turn, G Herbo’s PTSD and Lil Uzi Vert’s highly-anticipated album Eternal Atake, Lanez made sure to include a solo shoutout to YoungBoy Never Broke Again on his success with Still Flexin, Still Steppin. Saying the project is “going BRAZYYY” in his caption, Tory showed a level of support for NBA Youngboy and the other emcees mentioned previously that we can only hope continues to spread throughout the hip-hop community moving forward.  

Take a look at the social media shoutouts Tory Lanez gave to NBA Youngboy, Lil Baby, Megan Thee Stallion, G Herbo and Lil Uzi Vert below, and let us know which album was your favorite released last week by sounding off in the comments:

The 2019 breakout year of Megan Thee Stallion introduced hip-hop’s latest star with a promising career ahead of her. Without an actual debut album to her name, she set the industry ablaze with her bossed up promiscuous lyrics that celebrated sexual liberation and broke gender stereotypes. Everything about 2020 was set up to be her official year. With a debut album set to release, all signs pointed to the Hot Girl Summer extending into the new decade. Label issues, however, have prevented this from happening as imminently as many hoped for. Meg filed a lawsuit against her label last week after claiming they were holding her back from releasing new music. Even as contractual disputes persist, a judge granted Meg a TRO against her label to prevent them from stopping her from dropping new music. This resulted in the release of SUGA — Meg’s latest body of work which was rushed out onto streaming services while Carl Crawford attempted to go to grave lengths to stop this from happening. But in a year that was equally trying and triumphant, SUGA is an assertion of Meg’s boss status as a rapper and a cultural figure who continues to set herself apart from the pack of rappers, both male and female, that are emerging at a rapid pace.

Megan Thee Stallion, as an entertainer and personality, has continued to exude radiant charisma and confidence on her social media platforms, performances, and general appearances, even as she maintains a strong sense of humility. But SUGA is the introduction to a new personality — one that she’s described as a “sensitive gangsta” that highlights the imperfections of the everyday soul. “Social media got everybody striving for perfection and I’m not gon’ lie – I’m not perfect. I didn’t say I was,” she explained on Power 106 Los Angeles in late January. “I got a whole bunch of stuff going on every day. I’m going through it, but I’m getting through it. So, that’s where Suga is coming from.”

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“Ain’t Equal,” the first song on the project, is a declaration of her continuous reign, reflecting back on the losses of the past year and the moments of triumph she’s basked in. “Aye, I lost my mommy and my granny in the same month/ A bunch of bitches hatin’ ‘cause I’m comin’ up,” she viciously raps over Helluva’s icy production with a flow as sturdy as her knees. “Okay, let’s talk about it, no petty shit/ Let’s keep that shit a bill/ It’s a difference in the bitch who rap and the bitch who rap for real,” she continues as she applies pressure on the necks of doubters, naysayers, and imitators who’ve downplayed her success. But the pettiness of Instagram comments aside, there are still moments where she strikes back at the very label executive she’s in the midst of a legal battle against. “Bitch, I been poppin’, doin’ numbers, been lit/ And since the n***a think he made me, tell him do it again.”

The aggressiveness doesn’t necessarily carry on throughout the project at the same level of intensity. “Savage,” for instance, has Megan declaring herself the “Hood Mona Lisa” effortlessly over deep house-like chords while “Captain Hook” is the quintessential sex-posi banger that’s already inspired a new viral challenge. Showered with co-signs over the past year, the major name feature still wasn’t needed on Suga. Even with the collaborations on the project, Meg’s still driving the boat. The Kehlani-assisted “Hit My Phone” digs deeper into Meg’s R&B influences with tinges of funk and soul as she finds a pocket of G-Funk that will likely find itself on every major Spotify playlist. Even the Gunna-assisted and Neptunes-produced “Playing With Me” turns her auto-tuned melodies into a deeper foray into the world of pop music without losing her edge.

Suga is surely a project to hold fans over until the smoke settles and she’s ready to release her official debut album. Meg is overall a star that’s just beginning to fulfill her potential. Fever became a glimpse of her greatness but it’s Suga that proves that she’s just beginning to unlock her full potential. Meg proves that the momentum from “Hot Girl Summer” hasn’t died down. However, with her ongoing label dispute, the short nine-track project might only be able to buy her a certain amount of time until fans grow impatient for her formal debut album. 

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Everyone knows that one of the most effective means of promoting a song these days by sparking a viral dance challenge associated with it. Think about how K CAMP experienced a huge resurgence due to people mimicking moves to his song “Lottery” on TikTok. While these sorts of challenges usually take off on TikTok, Megan Thee Stallion used Triller – another short video-making platform – to create a dance for her song, “Captain Hook”. 

“Captain Hook” appears on the EP that Meg dropped last Friday, Suga. While Suga was initially teased to be the title of her debut album, she recently clarified that she decided to use the name of her new alter-ego to package nine songs she wanted to share with the world ASAP. This change may have been prompted by the highly-publicized issues that the Houston rapper has been experiencing with her label, 1501 Certified Entertainment. 

The “Captain Hook” dance challenge features dance moves that are just as sexually suggestive as the associated lyrics. Hot Girl Meg feigns eating motions as the song’s chorus plays: “He’s a sweetie, mmh, kiss it when he eat it, ayy, yeah / Know it’s good when you chewin’ and you singin’.” It seems “Captain Hook” will be promoted as a single because Meg also asked fans in her Instagram post if they’re ready for the music video. 

What an absolutely bonkers week for music releases. While it's exciting for us listeners who get to consume a variety of new tunes, the artists that dropped projects might be feeling a tad competitive. On our radar, we have Lil Uzi Vert's Eternal Atake, Megan Thee Stallion's Suga and Jhene Aiko's Chilombo to consider. 

This week saw two major projects' release dates being announced on short notice, a move that could either be risky or favourable in terms of album sales. Amid a highly-publicized legal dispute with her record label, Megan Thee Stallion revealed on Wednesday (Mar. 4) that her debut album, Suga, would be arriving on Friday. According to Hits Daily Double, Suga is projected to move 35-40k album-equivalent units, which would mark Meg's biggest debut to date.