Megan Thee Stallion has no time for on-line trolls who query her standing as some of the celebrated feminine rappers within the business. Throughout a candid dialog with actress Taraji P. Henson, the “HISS” rapper admitted she’s at a unique place in her profession. In accordance with the 30-year-old, after years of development, her function for creating music has modified.

When requested about charts and numbers at Taraji P. Henson’s “I Am the Desk Profit Brunch,” Megan addressed the brand new period of music and the way she’s advanced since rising to fame within the early 2020s.

“After all, I am aggressive. After all, rap is aggressive, and hell yeah, I wanna win. I wanna be primary, for positive, however that is not why I do it,” she stated. “I felt like, at some extent, to please my followers as a result of I really like that my followers are very aggressive, however I do not wanna be tongue-wrestling on Twitter with you motherf-ckers about charting. And y’all do not even like my music.”

As she went on, Megan defined that she received caught up within the immediate gratification when she first hit the scene, prompting her to place out an increasing number of.

“Y’all wanna bully different folks since you suppose that the subsequent lady will not be doing pretty much as good as me, otherwise you suppose that I am not doing pretty much as good as the subsequent lady, however did you hearken to any of my songs, for actual? Do you hear what I am saying? Do you want what I am saying? Otherwise you simply wanna brag?” she continued. “So I felt like, d-mn, I gotta make music as a result of I gotta be primary. I gotta chart, I gotta do that. “

“Now, I am like, you realize what? [No] I am gonna drop music after I really feel prefer it. In case you rock with me as Megan Thee Stallion, when you a hottie, thanks a lot,” she concluded.

Megan Thee Stallion is not the one feminine rapper getting candid in regards to the stress that comes from on-line critics always mentioning streaming numbers. In accordance with a earlier report from The Blast, Cardi B shared an identical assertion in a latest interview, fiercely slamming the trolls who labeled her final album a “flop.”

“It has been such drama with the numbers,” the previous “Love & Hip Hop” star stated. “To begin with, I am very pleased with my quantity. Very pleased with my quantity. We’re in a really totally different period in relation to music. So, not solely am I pleased with my numbers, however you bought b-tches from the sideline which are going to attempt to make you not really feel pleased with your numbers.”

Cardi B’s second album, “Am I The Drama?” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart after transferring 200,000 equal models.

“So folks will attempt to discourage you about your numbers, however clearly, they do not discourage me,” she stated. “That is what folks will attempt to do, nevertheless it fails. It fails when 1000s of movies are being made to your music. After which there’s 1000s of individuals doing memes to your songs. There’s so many individuals that was doubting my album, that’s like, ‘You already know what, her album is nice.'”

Past the business drama, Megan Thee Stallion was lately named The Trevor Undertaking’s 2025 Psychological Well being Champion of the Yr, an award celebrating the “Savage” rapper’s “outspoken advocacy” for psychological well being.

“I am honored to obtain this 12 months’s Psychological Well being Champion award from The Trevor Undertaking,” she stated, in keeping with a report from The Satisfaction LA. “My objective has at all times been to make use of my platform to assist break stigmas round psychological well being and supply sources for these in search of protected areas to have trustworthy and heartfelt conversations. Psychological well being impacts all of us, so it is vital to guide with love and empathy. I am grateful for organizations like The Trevor Undertaking which are dedicated to spreading consciousness and supporting our LGBTQ+ youth in highly effective methods.”