{"id":2447347,"date":"2019-08-08T22:20:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T04:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=868041"},"modified":"2019-08-08T22:20:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T04:20:33","slug":"megan-thee-stallion-recruits-nicki-minaj-ty-dolla-ign-for-hot-girl-summer-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/megan-thee-stallion-recruits-nicki-minaj-ty-dolla-ign-for-hot-girl-summer-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Thee Stallion Recruits Nicki Minaj, Ty Dolla $ign for \u2018Hot Girl Summer\u2019 Anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/nikimeg.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Hot Girl Summer is almost over, but it\u2019s still not too late for the mother of the movement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/megan-thee-stallion\/\" id=\"auto-tag_megan-thee-stallion\" data-tag=\"megan-thee-stallion\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a>, to drop its official anthem. For \u201cHot Girl Summer,\u201d the Houston rapper is joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nicki-minaj\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nicki-minaj\" data-tag=\"nicki-minaj\">Nicki Minaj<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ty-dolla-ign\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ty-dolla-ign\" data-tag=\"ty-dolla-ign\">Ty Dolla $ign<\/a> while Juicy J serves as producer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHot Girl Summer\u201d begins with the opening lines of City Girls\u2019 \u201cAct Up,\u201d and the opening lines are further interpolated throughout the track. Ty Dolla $ign sings the chorus in between fun, cocky energetic verses from the pair of MCs. \u201cI can read your mind\/Gotta say that shit\/Should I take your love,\u201d Megan Thee Stallion raps. \u201cGotta whole lot of options\/\u2019cause you know a bitch poppin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd who gonna tell him that my bitch is getting her degree\/And when we say it\u2019s hot girl summer we ain\u2019t talking \u2019bout degrees,\u201d Nicki Minaj raps.<\/p>\n<p>Both Megan Thee Stallion and Minaj announced the collaboration earlier this week, revealing the artwork after DJ Envy confirmed the lineup. This is their first collaboration, though the pair appeared on Instagram Live together (but from separate places) last month. During the livestream, the rappers exchanged compliments. \u201cI really appreciate you, and even though we\u2019ve been joking a lot, I wanted to tell you that it means a lot to me all of the nice and all of the sweet things that you ever said,\u201d Megan said to Minaj. \u201cLike, it means the world to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"teads-inread sm-screen\">\n<div readability=\"12.319506726457\">\n<div class=\"teads-ui-components-adchoices\" readability=\"20.076233183857\">Megan Thee Stallion made her debut in 2017 with the EP&nbsp;<em>Make It Hot<\/em>. Earlier this year, she released her debut mixtape&nbsp;<em>Fever<\/em>. She has been working on her debut album. Minaj released her fourth LP,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-nicki-minaj-protects-her-crown-on-queen-710819\/\"><em>Queen<\/em><\/a>, last year. Most recently she dropped the single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/nicki-minaj-megatron-video-watch-850339\/\">Megatron<\/a>.\u201d Ty Dolla $ign has appeared on several new songs this year, including Little Mix\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/little-mix-think-about-us-ty-dolla-sign-784506\/\">Think About Us<\/a>,\u201d Kehlani\u2019s \u201cNights Like This\u201d and J. Cole\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ty-dolla-sign-j-cole-purple-emoji-video-841323\/\">Purple Emoji<\/a>.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/megan-thee-stallion-nicki-minaj-ty-dolla-sign-hot-girl-summer-868041\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Girl Summer is almost over, but it\u2019s still not too late for the mother of the movement, Megan Thee Stallion, to drop its official anthem. For \u201cHot Girl Summer,\u201d the Houston rapper is joined by Nicki Minaj and Ty Dolla $ign while Juicy J serves as producer. \u201cHot Girl Summer\u201d begins with the opening [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 23:53:26","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}