Megan Thee Stallion sheds her skin on 'Megan'

By Aisha Harris,

Sidney Madden, Shamira Ibrahim, Mike Katzif, Rommel Wood, Jessica Reedy

Published July 3, 2024 at 9:17 AM EDT

Megan Thee Stallion performs during the 2022 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival.

A lot has happened to rapper Megan Thee Stallion over the last couple of years including a highly publicized trial after being shot by a former friend, a messy breakup, and a feud with artist Nicki Minaj. She confronts all of that and more on her boastful and vulnerable new album Megan. But she also has fun on playful tracks like 'Down Stairs DJ' and 'Otaku Hot Girl' that are odes to self-pleasure and her anime nerddom.

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Aisha Harris

Aisha Harris is a host of Pop Culture Happy Hour.

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Sidney Madden is a reporter and editor for NPR Music. As someone who always gravitated towards the artforms of music, prose and dance to communicate, Madden entered the world of music journalism as a means to authentically marry her passions and platform marginalized voices who do the same.

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Shamira Ibrahim

Shamira Ibrahim is a Brooklyn-based culture writer by way of Harlem, Canada, and East Africa, who explores identity and cultural production as a critic, reporter, feature/profile writer, and essayist.

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