{"id":491724,"date":"2019-10-30T13:48:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T19:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=905807"},"modified":"2019-10-30T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T19:48:47","slug":"megan-thee-stallion-teases-2020-album-under-new-persona-suga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/megan-thee-stallion-teases-2020-album-under-new-persona-suga\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Thee Stallion Teases 2020 Album Under New Persona \u2018Suga\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/megan-thee-stallion.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Following her performance at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/npr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_npr\" data-tag=\"npr\">NPR<\/a>\u2019s inaugural Tiny Desk Fest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/megan-thee-stallion\/\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a> sat down for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/29\/774512342\/megan-thee-stallion-at-tiny-desk-fest-i-m-always-trying-to-one-up-myself\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an interview<\/a> with NPR\u2019s Sidney Madden, revealing that she has plans for a debut album in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt like my mixtapes were me flirting with my fans,\u201d the rising-star rapper from Houston said. \u201cI never wanted to do an album \u2019cause I was like, \u2018Oh, that feel like marriage. That\u2019s a commitment.\u2019 But now, I\u2019m ready to settle down with an album.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Referencing her past personas like Hot Girl Meg and Tina Snow, Megan teased a whole new character, called Suga, that she plans on introducing in her next project. \u201cShe\u2019s besties with Tina Snow\u2026it\u2019s a big problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"res774716715\" class=\"bucketwrap internallink insettwocolumn inset2col \" readability=\"17.014787430684\">\n<div class=\"bucket img\" readability=\"29.16820702403\">\n<p>Megan also discussed her Houston roots, growing up with a mother who rapped as a side hustle and being raised on the music of UGK, Three 6 Mafia and Slim Thug. When it comes to female empowerment, Megan said she looks toward the three women who raised her \u2014 her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother \u2014 as inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Currently a senior at Texas Southern University, Megan switched her major multiple times before settling on a degree in healthcare administration. After seeing her grandmother single-handedly take care of her great-grandmother before she passed, the rapper hopes to use the money raised from her career to open an assisted living facility in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Megan launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4PQ2Ln7c2Vg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the first episode<\/a> of <em>Hottieween<\/em>, a web trilogy directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/teyana-taylor\/\">Teyana Taylor<\/a> that will continue Wednesday (October 30th) and on Halloween. Co-starring Dave East and J. Cole alongside Megan, the series is inspired by campy horror B-movies and blaxploitation films. The rapper will also host two live \u201cHottieween\u201d parties this week, tonight in Los Angeles and Thursday in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/megan-thee-stallion-npr-tiny-desk-interview-905807\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following her performance at NPR\u2019s inaugural Tiny Desk Fest, Megan Thee Stallion sat down for an interview with NPR\u2019s Sidney Madden, revealing that she has plans for a debut album in 2020. \u201cI felt like my mixtapes were me flirting with my fans,\u201d the rising-star rapper from Houston said. \u201cI never wanted to do an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-22 05:03:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}