Megan Thee Stallion Went Pudgy Freedom-Combating Road Warrior In Her BET Awards Medley
Emilio Coochie
Megan Thee Stallion‘s “quarantine lady summer time” is popping out to be the hottest season of all. The Houston rapper had her first No. 1 single, besides an EP attain the tip 10. It used to be all capped on Sunday (June 28), when she delivered a horny efficiency for the socially distant BET Awards.
Megan’s pre-recorded efficiency began with her newest single, “Girls in the Hood,” which released on Friday (June 26). She seemed out of a Enraged Max legend: Rolling up in a desolate tract scene on the help of a stripped-down bike, she wore knee-high lace-up boots and an S&M bralette decked out with silver O-rings; her shoulders had been covered with crimson and dusky feathers, while her long hair streamed in the help of. Because the lyrics to the song recommended: “I’m a hot lady / I gather hot shit / Employ his profits / On my outfit.”
While lonesome oil cans sat in the background and graffiti-kissed educate cars whizzed by, Megan and her crew of dancing, boulevard-warrior vixens carried out the song, then hopped onto cranium-embellished four-wheelers, resetting the scene. The rapper segued into her hit single, “Savage.”
Standing atop a structure of metal bars and flimsy netting, Megan twerked sooner than a Dim fist, while a signal at the structure’s low read, “Dim Lives Topic.” Though Beyoncé, whose addition made the “Savage” remix a breakout hit, didn’t join the efficiency itself, her disembodied notify sang its fraction. Megan carried out out the efficiency ghost-riding a deconstructed sports car, which seemed as a metal peacock pushed by a masked chauffeur. The total efficiency read as some afrofuturist apocalypse; the revolution used to be already right here, and on this landscape, freedom and tune reigned.
Sooner than taking the stage, Megan well-liked the award for finest female hip-hop artist. She might possibly be up for finest collaboration, video of the year, album of the year, and viewer’s choice award; she tied Roddy Rich for 2nd-most nominations, with five nods, trailing Drake, with six.