Megan Thee Stallion Actually Followed In Her Late Mother's Footsteps

Publish date: 2024-05-09

Megan Thee Stallion's rap career was a direct response to her mother's music. "My mom was a rapper. She didn't know I wanted to be a rapper, but I would literally watch her in the studio all day. I'm like, 'This lady is everything,'" Megan told Tyra Banks for Sports Illustrated in July 2021 (via BuzzFeed). "I didn't want to tell her that I could rap until I was 18. I wanted to be perfect to her." Megan said she didn't want her mother to disapprove. 

But when she was 20, Megan showed Holly what she could do. "[Holly] was like, 'No you can't... Let me hear,'" Megan said. "I was like, 'OK, mama. Don't whoop me, but I'm about to curse, OK?' So I started going off, and I'm cursing."Megan, as she told Vulture in an interview one day before her mother's death, she learned to rap by listening to her mother's recording sessions. She released music under the name Holly-Wood in the early 2000s. In September 2019, Megan Thee Stallion tweeted that Holly's memory kept her going. "After my mom passed I promised myself I was going to keep going hard bc not only is music my dream but it was her dream for me too," Megan wrote. "I have days where I want to go hide and cry bc she's not here but i kno that ain't what she would want me to do! I kno she's proud of me !"

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