{"id":2455088,"date":"2020-02-27T06:48:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T13:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=958786"},"modified":"2020-02-27T06:48:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T13:48:04","slug":"the-first-time-megan-thee-stallion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/the-first-time-megan-thee-stallion\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time: Megan Thee Stallion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Meg.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-first-time\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-first-time\" data-tag=\"the-first-time\">The first time<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/megan-thee-stallion\">Megan Thee Stallion<\/a> was called a stallion, she wasn\u2019t exactly pleased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was 15 and I was leaving a football game, and this dude \u2014 he was way older \u2014 he was like, \u2018Dang, little mama, you a stallion!&#8217;\u201d she recalls to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cI was like, \u2018Uh-uh, go to jail, I\u2019m 15!\u2019 I had to go home and ask my uncle what being called a stallion meant. He was like, \u2018It means you tall and fine.\u2019 I was like, \u2018Oh yeah, I am that.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Houston rapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sza-megan-thee-stallion-normani-march-2020-cover-955203\/\">graces the cover<\/a> of&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Women\u2019s Issue this month alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sza\">SZA<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/normani\/\">Normani<\/a>, but in the latest installment of \u201cThe First Time,\u201d she describes feeling like the underdog in music for much of her life. \u201cI had to be like 13 or 14, and I didn\u2019t even tell nobody I could rap\u2026I\u2019d be watching the [music] awards and be like, \u2018Man, that need to be me. I should be up there, I should\u2019ve won that!\u2019 None of these people know me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Megan first got into rap after her mother played her music by the classic Houston hip-hop group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ugk\/\">UGK<\/a>; while listening to Pimp C\u2019s bars, even at a young age, she thought, \u201cThis would sound really cool if a girl was saying it. And from there I started thinking, \u2018I\u2019m gonna rap like this when I get older.\u2019 And\u2026I do!\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/megan-thee-stallion-first-time-video-958786\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time Megan Thee Stallion was called a stallion, she wasn\u2019t exactly pleased. \u201cI was 15 and I was leaving a football game, and this dude \u2014 he was way older \u2014 he was like, \u2018Dang, little mama, you a stallion!&#8217;\u201d she recalls to Rolling Stone. \u201cI was like, \u2018Uh-uh, go to jail, I\u2019m [&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-2455088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 17:11:07","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\/2455088","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=2455088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}