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Megan Thee Stallion has introduced her plans for a jam-packed summer time amid a raging feud with fellow rapper Nicki Minaj.
The “Savage” artist, 28, has been a significant matter throughout social media in current days, following the discharge of her newest single, “Hiss”, and Minaj’s response through posts on X/Twitter, in addition to the diss monitor, “Huge Foot”.
On Tuesday (30 January), Megan was featured on the breakfast programme Good Morning America.
Throughout the pre-recorded look, she revealed that she has no intentions to cease being a scorching matter, as she intends to drop her third studio album and embark on an accompanying tour this summer time.
“2024 to date could be very lit, I’m already working my butt off,” she defined, earlier than referring to her followers – nicknamed the Hotties – and their pleasure for brand new releases.
“I’m attempting to maintain the Hotties joyful, they fussing at me proper now, they’re like, ‘The place’s the music?!’”
Previous to “Hiss”, which some music commentators imagine accommodates a veiled reference to Minaj’s husband, Megan launched the music “Cobra” in November, and featured on Reneé Rapp’s single “Not My Fault” for the Imply Ladies soundtrack in December.
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Elsewhere within the chat, the Houston-born artist touched on how making music has helped her in recent times, following being shot by former buddy Tory Lanez in 2020 and his trial and eventual sentencing in August 2023.
“It was actually tough, as a result of for the previous couple of years, music simply appeared so unfavourable to me,” she famous.
“I wasn’t in a superb area, mentally, after every thing that had occurred to me, and all of it felt like, ‘I’m bored with this. I’m bored with combating.’
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“However I needed to inform myself, ‘I don’t wanna hand over.’ I really like loads of issues, however music is the one factor I do know I’ve at all times, actually, tremendous tried at, and the one factor my mama knew I actually wished to do, so I used to be like, ‘I can’t hand over this battle – I simply gotta put it within the music.’”
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Megan’s mom, Holly Thomas, died in March 2019 of a mind tumour.
In direction of the top of the section, Megan confirmed plans for a brand new album and tour.
“The Scorching Woman Summer season tour is gonna be 2024, summertime,” she stated. “I really feel like I’ve by no means been capable of be outdoors, doing my very own factor, in the course of the summer time, since like 2019. That is gonna be the primary time that I drop an album on time for the summer time.
“I do need to give the Hotties the Megan Thee Stallion expertise.”
In response, a few of Megan’s “Hotties” have shared their pleasure on-line. “WE WILL BE ATTENDING,” wrote one fan on X/Twitter, whereas one other famous that the announcement was “nice timing”.
Elsewhere, one other supporter merely referred to as the artist an “unbothered queen”.
“Hiss” is out there to stream now.
