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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She’s the most provocative star of 2020: When not topping the Billboard charts with a song <strong>so raunchy we can’t name it,</strong> she’s appeared on the crime pages for a <strong>mysterious night of gunplay.</strong></p><p>Meet Megan Jovon Ruth Pete, aka <strong>Megan Thee Stallion</strong>, a 25-year-old health care college student from Texas who has become the “it’’ girl of the music world thanks to her raps, her men — and the ensuing mayhem that always seems to follow her.</p><p>“She is a hustler,’’ Megan’s hairdresser, <strong>Jonathan Wright</strong>, told Page Six.</p><p>Of the controversy that accompanies her, the pal said it has only made Megan stronger, insisting, “She has grown a lot mentally, physically and everything in between.’’</p><h2>Megan as a child</h2><p>As a kid, Megan knew what it was like to struggle, growing up in the South Park section of Houston Texas, which she has described as half “ ’hood s- -t,’’ half “family environment&#8217;<strong>&#8216; to Rolling Stone.</strong></p><p>Her mom, Holly Thomas, was a bill collector and Houston rapper known as Holly-Wood who raised Megan on UGK and the Notorious B.I.G. Thomas was also Megan’s first manager.</p><figure id="attachment_5359521"  class="wp-caption alignnone aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/08/stallion-rolling-loud.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/08/stallion-rolling-loud.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/08/stallion-rolling-loud.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Megan Thee Stallion performs onstage last year during day two of the Rolling Loud Festival in Los Angeles.</span><span class="credit">Getty Images</span></figcaption></figure><p>Megan has characterized her mom’s music as “hardcore gangster,” saying, “When I started rapping, and cussing and s&#8211;t, she was like, ‘I don’t know where you get it from.’ [But] she was a potty-mouth, worse than me.’’</p><p>The rapper has said her dad, Joe Pete, was a “full-time hustler” who was imprisoned for the first eight years of her life and died when she was just 15.</p><h2>How Megan Thee Stallion got her name — and rep</h2><p>Megan was in high school when she says grown men started calling her a “stallion” — Southern slang for a <a href="https://twitter.com/PageSix/status/1262386230291038208/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">voluptuous, tall woman.</a> The curvy 5-foot-10 rapper says she eventually figured why not embrace it — and Megan Thee Stallion was born.</p><p>She started rapping as a young teen, and by her freshman year at Houston’s Prairie View A&amp;M University in 2013, she was already grabbing plenty of attention locally — although it wasn’t always for what she wanted.</p><p>Megan got into trouble with the school administration for posting twerking videos.</p><p>“Believe it or not, I used to be a little shy,” Megan has said. “I never wanted anybody to know that I could even rap. Even when I got to college and I told my best friend I could rap, she’ll be like, ‘OK. Well, then rap.’</p><p>“I wouldn’t do it. 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The video features the duo dancing in various stages of undress.</p><p>Megan is now well known for her outrageousness — but the controversy that comes with it doesn’t always make her happy.</p><p><span class="embed-youtube" ><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hsm4poTWjMs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" width="600" height="315"></iframe></span></p><p>“A man can be as mediocre as he wants to be but still be praised,” <strong>Megan has said.</strong> “A man can talk about how he’s about to do all of these drugs and then come and shoot your house up. But as soon as I say something about my vagina, it’s the end of the world?”</p><h2>Legal trouble</h2><p>In March, not to be bowed by anyone, Megan filed suit against her old record label, alleging that the contract she signed when she was 20 was “not only entirely unconscionable, but ridiculously so.’’</p><p>While “FREETHEESTALLION” trended on Twitter, the rapper was in court fighting the label, 1501, and its CEO, former baseball star Carl Crawford, who called her a liar and a fraud in the press.</p><p>A Texas judge eventually ruled in her favor, and Megan celebrated the victory on Instagram, posting, “I will stand up for myself and won’t allow two men to bully me. I am NO ONES PROPERTY.”</p><h2>Megan, Tory Lanez and that shooting</h2><p>Then in July, Megan was caught up in a new controversy.</p><p>Los Angeles cops were called amid reports of gunfire from her rumored rapper boyfriend Tory Lanez’s chauffeur-driven SUV around 4:30 a.m. July 12 — and Megan was seen stumbling away and eventually treated at the hospital for <strong>bullet wounds in her feet.</strong></p><p>She refused to identify the shooter — until Friday.</p><p>That’s when Megan<strong> publicly fingered Lanez</strong> as the man who shot her last month.</p><p>&#8220;Yes, this n&#8212;a Tory shot me,” Megan said in an Instagram Live video.</p><p>“You shot me, and you got your publicist and your people going to these blogs lyin’ and s–t. Stop lyin’. Why lie?” she said.</p><p>Asked how Megan had been handling the shooting, Wright told Page Six, “She don’t like people to feel sorry for her.</p><p>“I just can’t believe this really happened to her.’’</p><p><video-js
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Megan also has been <strong>linked with G-Eazy</strong> and Moneybagg Yo.</p><p>But she hardly needs a man at the moment.</p><h2>The song that made Megan this summer</h2><p>“<strong>WAP’s’’ salacious video</strong> has already racked up more than 113 million views on YouTube alone.</p><p>Cardi B even bought her pal <strong>a custom-made Birkin bag</strong> with a painted stallion on it, in the same black-and-white costume that Megan wore in their video, to celebrate the pair’s success.</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CD_2WLkF7Wa/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12" ><p><script src="https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js" async="async"></script><br /> <strong></p><p><svg width="50px" height="50px" viewBox="0 0 60 60" version="1.1" xmlns="https://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><g stroke="none" stroke-width="1" fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd"><g transform="translate(-511.000000, -20.000000)" fill="#000000"><g><path d="M556.869,30.41 C554.814,30.41 553.148,32.076 553.148,34.131 C553.148,36.186 554.814,37.852 556.869,37.852 C558.924,37.852 560.59,36.186 560.59,34.131 C560.59,32.076 558.924,30.41 556.869,30.41 M541,60.657 C535.114,60.657 530.342,55.887 530.342,50 C530.342,44.114 535.114,39.342 541,39.342 C546.887,39.342 551.658,44.114 551.658,50 C551.658,55.887 546.887,60.657 541,60.657 M541,33.886 C532.1,33.886 524.886,41.1 524.886,50 C524.886,58.899 532.1,66.113 541,66.113 C549.9,66.113 557.115,58.899 557.115,50 C557.115,41.1 549.9,33.886 541,33.886 M565.378,62.101 C565.244,65.022 564.756,66.606 564.346,67.663 C563.803,69.06 563.154,70.057 562.106,71.106 C561.058,72.155 560.06,72.803 558.662,73.347 C557.607,73.757 556.021,74.244 553.102,74.378 C549.944,74.521 548.997,74.552 541,74.552 C533.003,74.552 532.056,74.521 528.898,74.378 C525.979,74.244 524.393,73.757 523.338,73.347 C521.94,72.803 520.942,72.155 519.894,71.106 C518.846,70.057 518.197,69.06 517.654,67.663 C517.244,66.606 516.755,65.022 516.623,62.101 C516.479,58.943 516.448,57.996 516.448,50 C516.448,42.003 516.479,41.056 516.623,37.899 C516.755,34.978 517.244,33.391 517.654,32.338 C518.197,30.938 518.846,29.942 519.894,28.894 C520.942,27.846 521.94,27.196 523.338,26.654 C524.393,26.244 525.979,25.756 528.898,25.623 C532.057,25.479 533.004,25.448 541,25.448 C548.997,25.448 549.943,25.479 553.102,25.623 C556.021,25.756 557.607,26.244 558.662,26.654 C560.06,27.196 561.058,27.846 562.106,28.894 C563.154,29.942 563.803,30.938 564.346,32.338 C564.756,33.391 565.244,34.978 565.378,37.899 C565.522,41.056 565.552,42.003 565.552,50 C565.552,57.996 565.522,58.943 565.378,62.101 M570.82,37.631 C570.674,34.438 570.167,32.258 569.425,30.349 C568.659,28.377 567.633,26.702 565.965,25.035 C564.297,23.368 562.623,22.342 560.652,21.575 C558.743,20.834 556.562,20.326 553.369,20.18 C550.169,20.033 549.148,20 541,20 C532.853,20 531.831,20.033 528.631,20.18 C525.438,20.326 523.257,20.834 521.349,21.575 C519.376,22.342 517.703,23.368 516.035,25.035 C514.368,26.702 513.342,28.377 512.574,30.349 C511.834,32.258 511.326,34.438 511.181,37.631 C511.035,40.831 511,41.851 511,50 C511,58.147 511.035,59.17 511.181,62.369 C511.326,65.562 511.834,67.743 512.574,69.651 C513.342,71.625 514.368,73.296 516.035,74.965 C517.703,76.634 519.376,77.658 521.349,78.425 C523.257,79.167 525.438,79.673 528.631,79.82 C531.831,79.965 532.853,80.001 541,80.001 C549.148,80.001 550.169,79.965 553.369,79.82 C556.562,79.673 558.743,79.167 560.652,78.425 C562.623,77.658 564.297,76.634 565.965,74.965 C567.633,73.296 568.659,71.625 569.425,69.651 C570.167,67.743 570.674,65.562 570.82,62.369 C570.966,59.17 571,58.147 571,50 C571,41.851 570.966,40.831 570.82,37.631"></path></g></g></g></svg></p><p> View this post on Instagram</p><p></strong></p><p > <strong>Me and cardi just got off the phone screaming 😭😭😭FIRST FEMALE RAP COLLABORATION IN HISTORY TO DEBUT AT NUMBER 1 😭😭😭 God is so great 🙏🏾 THANK YALL !!! @iamcardib thank you for all your words of encouragement, thank you for all the laughs, &amp; thank you for having me on the record 💕💕💕💕 #WAP</strong></p><p >A post shared by <strong> Hot Girl Meg</strong> (@theestallion) on <time  datetime="2020-08-17T16:46:42+00:00">Aug 17, 2020 at 9:46am PDT</time></p></blockquote><p>But while fans go crazy over it, the work has critics bashing it as bad for women and just too vulgar. Singer and rapper CeeLo Green called the work “desperate’’ and “salacious,’’ <strong>although he has since apologized.</strong></p><h2>Megan&#8217;s plans for the future</h2><p>Either way, Megan has plans for herself outside of the rap world.</p><p>She is currently enrolled at Texas Southern University studying health care, saying, “My grandmother would be very pissed off at me if I just stopped college right now.</p><p>“I got to get this degree. I already started it, and I’m interested in what I’m doing because I want to open up assisted-living facilities in the city.”</p>]]></content:encoded>
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