Twitch announced on Wednesday (Sept. 28) that Megan Thee Stallion will headline an all-women lineup of performers at this year’s TwitchCon Party in San Diego, Calif., on October 8. The Grammy winning rapper will be joined by Kim Petras and pop funk trio Meet Me @ the Altar, and DJ Lani Love and TIGERMOMTOY will provide beats throughout the evening. Presented by Amazon Games, the TwitchCon Party will take place at Petco Park at 7 p.m. PT, open to all TwitchCon Three-Day and Party ticket holders. TwitchCon, which celebrates streamers and their communities, returns to the San Diego Convention Center from October 7 to 9, after nearly a three-year hiatus. This year will have all the fan-favorite TwitchCon events, including the Drag Showcase, Artist Alley, Twitch Rivals, co...
Saturday Night Live kicks off its 48th season on Oct. 1. Today, the sketch comedy show announced its first three hosts and musical guests. Kendrick Lamar will open up as the season’s first musical guest, with WILLOW and Megan Thee Stallion to follow on Oct. 8 and 15h, respectively. Megan Thee Stallion will enter an elite club as she’s been tapped to not only perform, but she’ll be pulling double duty as the host. This will be her second appearance on the show, with her debut coming in October 2020. Lamar was a musical guest in 2013, 2014 (once on his own and again with Imagine Dragons) and 2018 (with Anderson .Paak). WILLOW made her debut appearance on SNL last April with Camila Cabello. Miles Teller and Brendan Gleeson will host the first two episodes. Japanese Breakfast was the musi...
Megan Thee Stallion extends her perfect top 10 streak on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart as Traumazine debuts at No. 3 on the list dated Aug. 27. The album, which was officially announced only one day before its Aug. 12 release, earned 63,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 18, according to Luminate. Of the 63,000 units, a majority (54,000), come from streaming-equivalent album units. The sum equals 85.7 million official on-demand streams of the album’s songs. 8,000 units derive from traditional album sales, with the remaining amount owed to track-equivalent album units. (One unit equals the following levels of consumption: one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Rap star Megan Thee Stallion has added a $1 million bid for damages to her lawsuit against 1501 Certified Entertainment. The rapper claims that the damages are due to her “entirely one-sided” recording contract as well as her claim that 1501 allegedly withheld payment for her share of the royalties on her music. According to Rolling Stone, MTS says that her new album Traumazine fulfills her “unconscionable” agreement with the label and end what she describes as a “tortured” relationship with the Houston-based record label. Related Stories The amended filing is asking for a judge to declare that Traumazine and her October release, Something For Thee Hotties “both constitute an ‘album’ as defined in the parties’ r...
After dropping her sophomore album, it’s clear Megan Thee Stallion was influenced by electronic music. With the help of “Savage” producer Whethan, who is credited on the album’s ninth track, Traumazine is a breath of fresh air for the chart-topping rapper. She leans heavily into dance music at times, blending electronic elements with her signature, sexually charged lyricism. The album’s fifth track, “Her,” is a standout. In true Meg nature, the arrangement kicks off with bravado before being swept up by a driving house rhythm. The accompanying music video features monochrome multiples of the rapper dancing along to the track’s thumping bassline. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles It’s not the first time Stallion has dipped her toes i...
Just after releasing her latest studio album, Megan Thee Stallion has shared the video for “Her.” The black and white, Colin Tilley-directed video is all about “her, her, her, she, she, she, me, me, me”—i.e. Meg. [embedded content][embedded content] The Stallion parades amongst Sia-haired dancers, spiting everyone who doesn’t accept her. She closes the first verse: “All you hoes know who the fuck I am / From your boyfriend down to my Instagram / To all them busted-ass hoes that you kiki with / I bet your jaw drop if you ever see me, bitch,” before spitting into her empowering, reiterating chorus. The Houston-bred rapper released Traumazine at midnight last Thursday following an announcement she posted on Twitter. The album includes the previously released “Pressurelicious,” “Sweetest ...