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Megan Thee Stallion on Why She's Cardi B's Go-To Collab Partner (Exclusive)
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00:00 - Why are you Cardi's go-to gal, Meg?
00:03 - I feel like we hype each other up so well.
00:05 Like anytime she might be feeling a way,
00:07 I'm definitely her sunshine.
00:09 - Your performance at the BMAs,
00:10 you and Cardi B are just gold.
00:14 You're everything.
00:15 So how much fun did the two of you have together performing?
00:18 - I mean, when you're the girls, that's what you just do.
00:21 You just come in and you just own the room.
00:22 - Don't you?
00:23 - We had a good time.
00:25 Before we were like, oh my God,
00:26 we gotta go to the BMAs and we gotta kill it.
00:27 And then on the day of, I was like,
00:29 actually, we just gotta go up here and have a good time.
00:31 So when we got up there and we had a good time,
00:33 it was just a blast and everybody loved it
00:34 and I was so excited.
00:35 - It was so good, so high energy.
00:37 Okay, so I would think another one of your favorite moments
00:40 from the BMAs would be meeting Justin Timberlake.
00:43 And I feel like you and Taylor Swift
00:45 were our emotions for the rest of us.
00:47 - First of all, Taylor Swift, her real name is Tay-Tay.
00:50 Because when I look back and I saw the clips
00:53 of how she was turning up, I said,
00:54 Taylor Swift, friend, you better be having a blast
00:58 while we up here shaking it.
00:59 She was having a time.
01:00 I was like, Taylor Swift, you wanna get up here
01:01 with us so bad.
01:03 She's a hottie, I love it.
01:05 - Oh my gosh, I love it.
01:06 But how much did you enjoy meeting Justin Timberlake?
01:09 And you know, especially, you guys had the cutest moment
01:12 and we got to see it on TikTok
01:13 after the fans were speculating about your interaction.
01:15 But what happened in that proper meeting?
01:17 - Okay, so in the proper meeting,
01:19 we were really crying, laughing,
01:21 because it was like, in what world
01:22 is Megan Thee Stallion beefed out on Justin Timberlake?
01:25 I'm in the back tussling with NSYNC?
01:26 That sounds crazy.
01:27 - Right, right.
01:28 - So I just, I thought it was so funny
01:30 because I talk with my hands.
01:31 Like right now I'm like, yeah.
01:32 - Yeah girl, you do.
01:33 - But I talk with my hands and my nails are so long
01:35 so I know this right here looks crazy.
01:37 Like you almost thought I was coming for you
01:38 and I was coming for him.
01:39 But yeah, this is just how I felt.
01:40 - But you got to have your moment with JT.
01:43 - I had my in-ears in and I couldn't hear him.
01:45 Then Justin Timberlake walks by,
01:46 he's like, it's nice to meet you.
01:47 I was like, no.
01:48 No, first of all, I can't hear you, so no.
01:51 This is not how I'm gonna meet--
01:51 - Take it back.
01:52 - Take it back.
01:53 This is not how I'm gonna meet Justin Timberlake back here.
01:55 Okay, and JC was back there looking cute.
01:57 - Right, all those in-teethers.
01:58 - I was like, hold on, y'all need to relax.
02:00 (laughing)
02:01 Wait 'til I get on stage and then I'm gonna be ready
02:03 for y'all.
02:04 - Oh my gosh, I love it.
02:05 You had your moment, you had your TikTok.
02:07 And you know what?
02:08 JT is actually putting together a new album.
02:10 So what I'm thinking, what we all need right now
02:12 is a little Megan Thee Stallion and a little JT.
02:15 - Right.
02:16 I told him, I was like, Justin,
02:16 we gotta bring sexy back back.
02:18 - I mean, 'cause here she is.
02:20 - Right, so that's what, you know,
02:21 fingers crossed we're gonna do.
02:22 - I think it could totally, totally happen.
02:24 - And we're both Aquarius.
02:25 I was like, we are meant to be besties.
02:26 - It is meant to happen.
02:28 - It was meant to be.
02:28 - JT, if you hear your girls, make it happen.
02:31 And then of course, let us in on the exclusive.
02:33 - Right.
02:34 - You know what I mean?
02:35 - Then I obviously have to give you the exclusive interview
02:36 because we manifested it here together.
02:37 - Without a doubt, without a doubt.
02:39 I love it that, speaking of collaborations, of course,
02:42 Cardi B recently said in an interview
02:44 that Vongas felt incomplete
02:46 and she felt like she could hear you in it.
02:49 Why are you Cardi's go-to gal, Meg?
02:52 - I feel like we hype each other up so well.
02:54 Like, anytime she might be feeling a way,
02:56 I'm definitely her sunshine cloud.
02:57 - What does that hype look like?
02:59 How do you hype her up?
02:59 - Cardi, you is the girl.
03:01 Don't, X out the outside noise.
03:04 You are it, I'm it, we're gonna be it together.
03:07 We are the it girls.
03:08 What you need me to do?
03:09 Tag me in.
03:10 - And how does Cardi hype you up?
03:11 - Oh my God.
03:12 (laughing)
03:13 Cardi come in the room hype like,
03:14 "Nigga, they say it!"
03:17 I'm like, yes, my girl.
03:19 But she's so sweet and she's so kind.
03:21 And that's why I really like her, 'cause she's real.
03:23 You don't really run across a lot of raw people.
03:26 Whatever comes to her mind first,
03:28 that's what she's saying, that's how she feels.
03:29 So I never walk away like, "Did she mean that?"
03:32 No, 'cause if she thought it, she said it,
03:34 and she meant it.
03:35 - For sure.
03:36 - So I absolutely love that about her.
03:37 - Authenticity is so there with her.
03:39 What is a favorite moment or memory?
03:42 I mean, the choreography alone for the Vongas video,
03:45 I'm thinking, I can't imagine the time
03:47 that it would take to do that.
03:48 So you guys have clearly taken a lot of time
03:49 to be with each other, work with each other.
03:51 What are things like behind the scenes?
03:53 What's a favorite memory or moment with Cardi?
03:55 - Recently, 'cause we got a lot of cute moments,
03:58 but recently, I just met Wave, her son.
04:01 - Wasn't that on set?
04:02 - Yes, it was on the photo shoot set.
04:05 So she brought him in and I was like, "A baby!"
04:09 Like, he's so cute!
04:10 And everybody was like, "Megan, don't get any ideas."
04:13 - I know, I was here ready to say,
04:14 how does that make you feel, man?
04:16 - I feel like a good auntie.
04:17 (laughing)
04:18 I feel like the lit auntie.
04:20 - Oh my God.
04:21 - But he is like the most adorable baby on the planet,
04:23 and we just immediately was like, "Yes, I'm your aunt."
04:26 'Cause he gave me, like, pick me up.
04:28 - That photo was so cute.
04:30 - I picked him up and we was just out of there from there.
04:32 That's my friend.
04:33 - I love it.
04:34 Well, we cannot wait for more new music from you,
04:36 and I think we're gonna be getting it kinda soon.
04:39 How soon, Meg?
04:40 How soon are we getting it?
04:41 - I like to surprise the hotties,
04:42 so I'm not gonna say how soon,
04:44 but just be expecting it.
04:45 Everybody knows spooky season is my favorite season,
04:48 so just be on point.
04:50 - Well, what can we expect in this new era of music for you?
04:53 - I feel like I'm in such a fresh space.
04:55 Like, everything about me is new.
04:56 My attitude, my vibe.
04:58 I feel like I'm starting a new chapter in my life.
05:00 - Well, what's inspiring that new chapter?
05:02 What do you think?
05:04 - I think I've just gone through so much,
05:06 and I'm so at a point where I don't care
05:08 about a lot of stuff.
05:09 I'm just so comfortable with myself.
05:13 I'm like, "Okay, at this point, girl,
05:14 "what's the worst thing that can happen?"
05:16 I just, I'm into taking risks right now.
05:19 I don't have any apps on my phone.
05:20 I don't have any social media on my phone.
05:22 - What?
05:23 - Yeah, so I have no idea what's happening half the time.
05:24 Like, the whole JT thing,
05:25 I didn't even know that had happened.
05:27 - Well, that's good, 'cause nothing did happen.
05:29 - Nothing happened, so my homegirl called me.
05:30 She's like, "Did you ever fight with Justin Timberlake?"
05:33 I said, "What?"
05:34 But no, so I don't have any inspiration
05:36 from anybody out right now.
05:37 Like, I feel like as an artist,
05:38 you know, you see other artists doing things,
05:40 and it's like, "Oh my God, I gotta keep up."
05:43 I have no clue what anybody's doing.
05:44 So the music that I've been making, it feels good to me.
05:47 - That's such a great place to be.
05:49 Did it take you a long time to get to that space?
05:51 - It did, it took me a while to...
05:53 I always like to think of myself as a confident person.
05:56 I always like to thought that I didn't care about much.
05:58 I thought I was nonchalant.
05:59 But it took me to go through things
06:01 where so many people were talking about me constantly,
06:03 to where I had to realize,
06:05 "Okay, maybe you're not as nonchalant
06:06 and carefree as you thought you was."
06:08 So I had to take a step back, reevaluate myself.
06:12 I had to get in a comfortable position with myself,
06:14 and now I genuinely can say, "I'm in love with Megan."
06:18 - Wow.
06:19 - I'm in love with Megan Thee Stallion.
06:19 - You just look like you're in the ultimate place
06:21 in life right now.
06:22 - I'm in such a good space.
06:23 - Well, I think you're in a good space too,
06:25 but can we talk about Dix the musical?
06:27 - Oh my God, let's talk about it.
06:28 - Let's talk about it, girl.
06:29 We're so excited for your feature film debut.
06:31 What was it about this musical that spoke to you?
06:34 - I love that campy, funny,
06:37 inappropriate, funny kind of vibe.
06:41 - No, really?
06:41 - Yeah, like that's me.
06:43 And Josh and Erin, they sold it for me.
06:48 They're such a crazy team.
06:49 Being on that set, it felt like I was working
06:51 with all my friends.
06:52 The dancers were so good, the production was so nice.
06:56 Everybody was too good.
06:57 - Really?
06:58 - Yeah.
06:59 - I'm hearing so good that they want to put the film up
07:02 for Oscar consideration.
07:03 - Oh, please, God.
07:04 - Your song, your dance really made an impact with the team.
07:08 - Okay.
07:09 - What does that sound like?
07:11 - It sounds like she manifesting being an EGOT.
07:13 That's really what I want.
07:15 - Yeah.
07:15 - You heard me, guys.
07:16 - Megan Thee Stallion, the Oscar nominee.
07:18 - Yeah.
07:19 - Or Megan Thee Stallion, the Oscar winner.
07:22 - Yeah, say that.
07:23 I like that.
07:24 - We're not speaking in text.
07:25 - Megan Thee Stallion, the Oscar winner.
07:26 - Okay, so your latest collab, it is so on brand for you.
07:30 It is so hot.
07:31 - Yes, and I am the hot girl coach.
07:33 - I know, right?
07:34 So talk to me, how are you partnering up with Frito-Lay
07:37 and Flamin' Hot to encourage students, Megan?
07:40 - Everybody knows that I love hot chips.
07:43 That's my favorite thing.
07:44 Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
07:45 Everybody knows I would be eating hot chips
07:47 all day, every day, all day long anyways.
07:49 And everybody knows that I love education.
07:50 Like, I got my degree.
07:51 I feel like you're never too old to learn.
07:54 And any way that I can show the girls
07:55 you can still turn up, have a good time, be a hot girl,
07:57 and you can still wake up and go to class.
07:59 We gotta do that.
08:00 So that's how we have Flamin' Hot University.
08:03 - That is so cool.
08:04 What do you hope that you will stick with?
08:05 - You will learn how to be a hottie.
08:07 You will learn how to authentically be yourself.
08:10 And you will learn all the bomb hot Cheeto recipes
08:12 that you'll probably be making in your dorm room at 2 a.m.
08:15 (laughing)
08:16 - Check.
08:17 Now, your alma mater is also getting in part,
08:19 or you're making it a part of this campaign,
08:22 and they're getting a little something in return as well.
08:24 So what is TSU getting?
08:25 - Texas Southern University is getting scholarships
08:29 for the girls and the guys.
08:30 I feel like I know what it's like
08:32 to be a struggling college student.
08:34 And I know one of the main struggles
08:35 that make people wanna just give up and quit
08:37 is being able to pay for school.
08:39 Fortunately enough for me, I became Megan Thee Stallion,
08:41 so my first money I ever got and I spent,
08:44 I spent it on college.
08:45 I paid off my school.
08:46 - What a blessing.
08:48 - Right?
08:48 I was like, thank you Lord.
08:49 - I know, and to have your degree too,
08:51 I mean, that's something that you should just be
08:53 so proud of, you know?
08:55 But how did you manage to do it all?
08:58 - I just always knew that I wanted to be a rapper
09:01 and I wanted to get my degree, so it was two plan A's.
09:03 It wasn't a plan B.
09:04 It wasn't like, oh, if this doesn't work, I'm gonna do that.
09:05 It was always like, no girl, both of this is gonna work,
09:08 so stick with it.
09:08 - So good.
09:09 - We got something to prove.
09:10 - Yes you do, and you are proving it.
09:12 - And we did it.
09:13 - And I wanna know, I'm curious,
09:14 what kind of student were you, Megan?
09:16 - Ooh.
09:17 - Real talk.
09:19 - No, to be real, when I first got to my first HBCU,
09:22 'cause I went to Prairie View first,
09:24 the most chaotic, that was when all the real
09:27 high girl stuff was happening.
09:28 I was like the most chaotic student on the planet.
09:30 And I was like, I would schedule myself 8 a.m. classes
09:33 knowing good and well.
09:35 - You were not gonna be going.
09:36 - Actually, I didn't know that yet.
09:37 Like, when I would make my schedule,
09:38 I'd be like, ooh, I'm gonna make it so early,
09:39 I'm gonna be done early in the day,
09:40 I can go do whatever I wanna do at night.
09:42 I didn't realize how long my nights were gonna be.
09:45 So then, as I kept going, I was like, you know what,
09:47 okay, start my day at 1 p.m.
09:49 That's that.
09:50 - Well, you know what, that's the beauty of college too,
09:52 like, to learn, to have our youth, all that jazz.
09:55 - Yeah, I feel like in college you definitely find yourself.
09:58 - Da-da-da-da.
09:59 - I definitely had to figure out who I was.
10:01 - You found who you were.
10:02 - Yeah.
10:03 - You are Megan Thee Styles.
10:04 - Megan Thee Styles.
10:05 - I love it, I love it, I love it.
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