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I want to answer your question.
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But the pepper's dancing on my tongue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the show. Okay.
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Hey, what's going on everybody?
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From First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.
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It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
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And today we're joined by Megan Thee Stallion.
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Megan Thee Stallion is a three-time Grammy Award winner, philanthropist, and soon-to-be restaurateur and franchise owner with her new partnership with Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen starting October 19th featuring the limited edition release of the Megan Thee Stallion Hottie Sauce.
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Keep an eye out for that.
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Megan Thee Stallion, welcome to the show. I'm here. I'm ready.
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And obviously I like hot stuff, so let's see if this is really a challenge.
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Yeah, what is going through your head as you prepare to chow down today?
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Okay, honestly, when I sat down, [ __ ] Can I curse? Yeah, yeah, let it fly. Let it fly.
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This is like a [ __ ] werewolf boogeyman. I don't know.
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This one is a volcano, so let's just see what it's giving.
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This one got like some radioactive [ __ ] on the front, so let's see.
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I feel like I can cage was hot as hell. Going back in. The nugget was good. There we go. Okay. That's fire. And pleasant, right? Mhm. I can do this.
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So with Halloween right around the corner, I think now's as good a time as any to talk about how your love of horror movies has permeated your art from appearing on the Addams Family 2 soundtrack to then conceptualizing your web series, your horror web series Hottie Ween.
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Do you an all-time favorite horror film reference in one of your music videos?
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That [ __ ] has a couple Easter eggs. Yeah.
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My favorite would have to be the Freddy Krueger one.
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The hand coming out of the Yeah, the hand coming out because we got the twisted and make it me and make it the long nails instead of like the claw the knives.
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Um but I just really like to be scared. Like I You know what?
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It's probably cuz I like to be surprised. I like to be thrilled.
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I like to feel like, "Oh my gosh, what's coming next?"
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And I feel like that's what I make my hotties feel like when they listen to my music.
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Like Or just me as a person.
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Like, "Oh my god, what is she going to do next?
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What is her hair going to be doing next?
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What is her nails going to be doing next?"
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You know, so I like to scare people.
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I like to surprise people.
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So, maybe that's why I like horror so much.
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What did you mean when you said we needed it for the culture in reference to Human Centipede? Human Centipede?
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When I was first watching it, I was like, "I don't know I know ain't no way in hell this movie about to be about people mouth tied to each other's ass."
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But I feel like that was something that like crack your skull open.
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Like that just That was something that really like blew my mind.
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And I'm like, "You know what?
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This is going to push the next person to come up with something even more creepier and even more creepier and even more out the box."
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So, you know, pat on the back maker if you said that cuz we did need that.
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That one didn't feel like a hot sauce.
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I don't know what this tastes like.
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But it don't taste like a hot sauce. Oh, wait. Hit me in the throat. But it has a little bit.
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I think it hurt it I think it hurt it talking about it. like, "What you say?" Heard you.
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But it doesn't taste like hot sauce. It just is hot.
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So, as far as hip-hop origin stories go, I think making your name off cyphers is one of the most unimpeachable ways to really earn your stripes.
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And in terms of the radio freestyle shows, you really made your mark on everything from Sway's Five Fingers of Death to Fire in the Booth.
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Is there one of those in particular that you've built up to be an especially important notch in the belt for real MC?
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I feel like every time you get in front of anybody and rap, it's the real deal and you got to go in every time.
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Uh when I first came out and I was doing cyphers in Houston and Dallas and all that, I was like, "If I get the opportunity to rap in front of anybody, I'mma give it my all because I don't know when it's going to be the last time."
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So, I always go in like and treat it like this going to be my first and last time doing it.
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So, all of it is a rite of passage when you rap. I really like to rap.
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So, if I get to rap, I'm going to rap, and I'mma go hard every time.
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But, uh you know, yeah, every time you got to go hard.
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So, it's all like a rite of passage to me. Hot sauce.
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He got a little hat on with a little feather.
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I feel like y'all tricking me.
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Like it's not um it's not up to your level yet. No.
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Like, what is this called? Hot Ones or COLD ONES? OOH.
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BUT, MAYBE maybe Megan, maybe we're lulling you into a false sense of security. Right.
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I'm like, okay, y'all got to be doing something to me that psychological, right?
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Yeah, like, you trick this IT MIGHT PIPE UP at this bright colored one right here.
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This is not giving me hot. Well, just wait. Just wait.
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I got something on my nose.
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So, you're coming off a massive year, multiple Grammy wins, one of the albums of the year in Good News, and then listening to it, something that really stands out is the layering.
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How obsessive are you about sound mixing in the studio?
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It takes me at least like 10 tries to get the song mixed perfectly.
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Um and even when I'm recording, I have to record it like five times so I can make sure I said it right and it felt good and you could hear everything correctly cuz I have a Apparently, I have a thick accent.
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I don't hear it, but that's what people tell me.
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So, I'm like, when I'm rapping, I'm like, okay, let me try to make sure I say this clear as possible with my same twang, but as so y'all can understand me.
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I'm in there with the engineer.
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Like, I'm like, okay, no, it has to sound like this.
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No, y'all change the beat. What y'all do to this? Turn this up. Do this.
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So, I'm very, you know, particular about how my thing sound when they're all said and done. What do you feel like? Is it hot?
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You know, we've done hundreds of these episodes.
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So, not everybody has that sort of like Texas chili baseline. what it is.
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You have like a good tolerance for it. mix. But, I'll also say this.
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I've I've sat across the table from many people who in the front half are like, "What's the deal? Crank it up."
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And then it's a much different story later on down the line. me Let's get to the end.
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You should have took me this way. We will see. We will see.
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So, from merch collabs with Crunchyroll to modeling as Todoroki on magazine covers to saying that you'll pop out on a hoe like Pikachu on your song Fantasy Pool Party, Yeah.
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your love of anime comes through in everything that you do.
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What is the best anime in your opinion to reach for when you need a laugh? Mhm, a laugh. Okay. I'm not going to lie.
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Let's just talk about the anime that I'm finishing right now. Let's go.
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I'm watching Black Clover and it's so good and my favorite character on the show is Asta because this [ __ ] is always screaming and hollering.
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Like, even if they're like in the middle of a fight, like he'll just bust out with like some goofy [ __ ] but in the show, everybody has magic.
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Everybody born with magic.
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But, for some reason, Asta was born with like zero magic.
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So, everybody's be like picking on him like, "Oh, you ain't got no magic.
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You ain't going to be shit."
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And then he was like, "Yes, I am."
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Like, he was just like really going hard, but he doesn't have magic, but that's what makes him unique in the in the whole world.
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Like, so anytime anybody try to fight him or like whoop on him, they can't because he has anti-magic.
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So, it like cancels out everybody else's magic.
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So, he really like the coldest character in the show.
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And I just feel like I can relate to him and any of the other like main characters in anime because a lot of people, you know, they try to count you out when they feel like, you know, you ain't [ __ ] or you ain't got something yet, but you know, you training, you training, you fighting, you fighting, you keep proving everybody wrong, you keep beating the odds, and I feel like that's the type of person I am. Reaper pepper.
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That sound like you about to kill my damn taste buds. No problem. Or maybe. No, it's funny.
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That's how I feel like you want me to be like No. You know what?
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I don't want you to be and you know I I know I can't tell you this anyway, but I just want you to be real.
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And I know Megan Thee Stallion is always going to be real anyway.
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So, that's all I would ask. Just keep it real. Just keep it real.
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No problem with that one though. This one? Yes. It starts kicking in. Yeah. Okay.
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I did talk [ __ ] I I talked [ __ ] Sometimes they hear you, I think.
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The peppers was like activate. She got us [ __ ] up. Okay. But you know what?
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While you work through that one, we have a recurring segment on our show Megan Thee Stallion called Explain That Gram where we do a deep dive on our guest's Instagram, pull interesting pictures that need more context.
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So, we'll pull up the picture over here on the monitor.
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You just tell us the bigger story. Is it in mine? Yeah. All from viewers.
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User as Mileena Thee Stallion. Yes.
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Do you have any hot girl tips for Mortal Kombat beginners and what draws you to the game? Okay, boom.
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Mortal Kombat beginners, whichever one I'm supposed to look at, get on Google, pull up the cheat code.
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Not the cheat code, but pull up the cheat codes and pick one, remember it, and I promise you it don't matter who you playing against, you'll be [ __ ] them up with that one move.
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So, that's really how I learned how to play.
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Mileena was the first person I ever like Google the code for.
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And I'll be killing everybody with her, and I don't care how long you've been playing.
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But this is really like a sexy picture to me because the makeup is just on point, the titties are on point, and then like it's like the mouth is just like mhm I'll eat you.
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But it's still But it's still fire.
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And the bob, come on by y'all. Like it's cute. Hell yeah.
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All right, up next What do you think was special about the Butter remix with BTS that helped launch it to a Billboard number one?
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I feel like what was special about it was the fact that we all really wanted to do it.
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And it was like a a little trouble getting there. Yeah.
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But we got through it, and I feel like everybody was so excited about it, and I was so excited to meet them. They came to New York.
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Came They wanted to meet me.
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I was like Y'all want to see me?
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So, uh we all went up to Roc Nation, and they came and they met Four, and they gave us gifts, and it was just so cute.
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So, they they met the dogs. Yes. Of course. Really? Yeah. He can't eat. No, no, no.
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Yeah, yeah, you got to keep distance from the table. Right.
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But he would eat it if he could.
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All right, up next What do you remember about working with snakes, including a 120-lb albino python on the WAP music video set? Okay, so boom.
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Cardi was like, "Megan, I really want to do a scene with snakes."
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And I was like, "Cardi, you want to do a scene with some snakes?
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Like some real-life snakes?"
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And I'm like, "Y'all don't want to just edit them in there?"
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Like she's like, "No, we got to do it with real snakes."
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So, I'm like "Okay, if Cardi B say she wanted me to lay down with some snakes, I guess I got to lay down with the snakes." So, what her ass. So, we get there.
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I'm like, "All right, I got to meet these snakes before I jump in this damn pit."
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When we lay down, I had made a little friend, a little bestie.
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It was a little green snake.
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I don't know if y'all know if y'all noticed that it was like one green snake.
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Like we was killing it the whole time, cuz that was my little friend.
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But I met these snakes before we laid down, and I feel like we was keeping the peace.
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And then like the whole time I was laying there Cardi's like, "Megan, Megan, Megan, Megan, Megan, Megan."
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And then the music will start, and we'll be like, "Yeah, beat it up, baby."
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Trying to be all sexy still, but we was scared as hell.
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Like these snakes was doing their own thing and I was like damn you got me out here in in the [ __ ] snake pit Cardi B.
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If we get bit the [ __ ] up like this song better go number one.
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But it did so it was great.
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All right Megan are you ready to move on here to the back half?
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I'm actually scared because this one snuck up on me so I don't know what the [ __ ] señor la cucaracha about to do.
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I ain't even going to talk to you yet.
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It's not hot but it's nasty. I don't like that.
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So you're a rapper and also a student as we enter the hot nerd fall semester. Mhm. I'm graduating. This semester right? Yes. December 11th. Congratulations.
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On the topic of school do you have a happiest memory from your time as a member of the Panther Doll Dancers right? Oh my god yes. How do you know that?
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Um my happiest memory as a Panther Doll I guess when I made the team because I had tried out for the team my first year and I didn't make it.
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And when I tried out again I did make it. So I was like hell yeah.
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But I really built like a really good bond with a lot of those girls and when I was first coming up some of them was dancing for me on the road.
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So like we got to take it you know off the basketball court to stages and all the first stages I first ever performed on.
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So I was that's a good memory for me.
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All right Megan Thee Stallion.
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Are you ready to move on here?
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Okay because the last one y'all tried to feed me lake water so let's see.
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See what See what we got on deck over here. And how you say this? Uh the lengua de fuego. Okay.
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This might be some [ __ ] Ooh this smell hot. My nose burn. Okay.
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I feel like I keep anticipating it being hot.
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Like maybe, you know, you're playing psychological games on yourself.
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In addition to your hard-hitting dense with word play rap style, there's also a clear R&B influence from even on the latest project, your song Freaky Girls has the Adina Howard's sample to it.
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And then even one of your first original songs, Like a Stallion, has a genuine sort of like a pony vibe to it.
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In the great R&B tradition of creating songs to make love to, what are the most essential ingredients to a freak anthem? Okay.
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I want to answer your question.
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But the pepper's dancing on my tongue. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the show. Okay.
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Because it Why is this kicking in 5 minutes later?
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Okay, you want to know what is the ingredients to making a good sex song?
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Is that That's what you said?
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Did you say love making or did I I I did You know, I I did I Yeah, yeah.
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Just that Okay, the good ingredients to a good love making song.
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First of all, you need to have that good bassline, that good drum pattern so you could be on rhythm.
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You got to match the strokes to the drums.
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If you cannot match the stroke to the beat, it ain't heat.
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But um and then like you just got to have somebody that can really sing like like not sing but sing because when somebody can sing, you know, you really feel it in your soul.
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So it's like you got Ooh, woah.
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You know, like the riffs like You know when somebody say that Ooh, woah.
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They really They're about to sing. They're about to sing.
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So yeah, you just got to have that good voice and you got to have that good bassline and drum pattern. Notes taken. Yes.
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On paper, part of the record.
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Are you ready to move on here to the next sauce?
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This is Da'Bomb Beyond Insanity. Beyond Insanity.
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You know this about to be hot because this label look homemade. Right.
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Like they made this in their basement.
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It's like a very uh mixtape sort of Right, give them this.
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They going to [ __ ] this. They fire.
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I GOT I'M cooking up some hot [ __ ] in my basement. You don't even know.
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Yeah, this look like some underground [ __ ] Are you taking a small bite?
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I'll go with wherever you go with it, you know? That's like a good bite. All right. All right.
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I'm following you breaking [ __ ] in half, throwing it IN THE TRASH. I DON'T LIKE THAT. You ready? I'm ready. Okay.
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That's why I was going with the the half. We got to do it big. Yeah. I know.
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This [ __ ] rattling my sinuses. Yeah. That's that. Yeah. That's that one. I know. I know.
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You You and me, same page on that one.
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I've done this for a long time.
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It never gets any easier.
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The peppers was like activated.
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But while you work through that one She got us [ __ ] up.
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As we've touched on a little bit today, you always proudly represent Houston, Texas.
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So what I want to do is play a little game called hot girl [ __ ] or not hot girl [ __ ] Where I'll give you a few things that are unique to Houston and you just tell me if it's hot girl [ __ ] or not hot girl [ __ ] Ah.
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I cannot stand me a bird.
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he poured in the storm, you know. Crush that water. The Turkey Leg Hut.
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Hot girl [ __ ] So, I moved out of Houston right when it opened.
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So, I literally when I pop in, I have to have somebody like just go sneak and grab it for me right quick.
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The turkey just be falling right off the bone.
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Why is this hot sauce going like playing tag with like my tongue, my lips? OG Ron C mixtapes.
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Hot girl [ __ ] Got to be chopping on slot.
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Being stuck in traffic on the 610.
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Annoying girl [ __ ] Hate that [ __ ] I used to be going to the Galleria all the time and just get stuck.
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Cute as [ __ ] in the car for hours.
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All right, Megan, how are you feeling?
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I feel like this should be illegal.
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I feel like it got a radioactive sign because this [ __ ] was made at Area 51 or some [ __ ] Mhm.
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This is some alien ass hot sauce.
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Whoever made this [ __ ] need to be in prison. This is my boy.
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It look like a boogeyman werewolf.
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This [ __ ] should say cranked. I'm scared. Yeah, you be quiet. Okay. Cuz you a deceiver.
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And I'll step on the gas.
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I'll step on the gas to bring us to the finish line here. Cuz going to go fast. We're going to go fast.
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So, despite your high energy dancing on stage, you stay committed to live vocals.
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Do you have a lesson about breath control that you can maybe pass on to the aspiring pop stars who may be watching right now?
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My mom taught me take the breath at the right time.
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Cuz when I used to rap, I'll be trying to spit it all out at one time.
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No, she's like, "Meg, you need to catch your breath at the perfect word that work for you."
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So, yeah, that's what I do.
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Well, that's great advice.
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All right, Megan Thee Stallion.
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You don't have to if you don't want to.
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Well, you doing it, so I feel like Respect.
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I'm just not going to [ __ ] out.
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[ __ ] Should I take the last dab? Yes. All right, girl.
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Why does [ __ ] all stuck up at the top like this? Oh, no.
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Little little wipe off, little wipe off on that. Going out with a bang.
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Going out with a bang, a bang. Cheers, Megan. WHAT A RIDE.
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LIKE it's about to hurt me. Mhm. Right. Right.
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Bringing it home, bringing it home.
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Megan Thee Stallion, mercifully, we've reached the conclusion of our meal together.
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And as your fans, the Hotties, know, there's many sides of Megan Thee Stallion, the stage names, the alter egos, the AKAs that you have on stage.
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I'm not going to make you jump through a bunch of hoops, just going to point to one simple hot sauce, Da'Bomb Beyond Insanity, and you tell me the first Megan Thee Stallion alter ego that comes to mind and why. Hottie Grandma.
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Spicy as [ __ ] hot as [ __ ] you can't take me. That's that. Light that [ __ ] up.
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Mic drop from Megan Thee Stallion and look at you taking on the wings of death, talking a little in the front half, having that return a little bit in the second half, but making it through like an absolute champion.
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Look at you, Megan Thee Stallion.
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And now there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you.
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This camera, this camera, this camera, let the people know what you have going on in your life. Oh my god.
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Let me gather my thoughts.
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Let me gather my taste buds, gather my composure.
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I told y'all we graduating December 11th, so that's the first thing I want to tell y'all.
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The second thing I want to tell y'all, my friend, it's only right that I gift you the Hottie Sauce that I have coming out with Popeyes.
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You are the first one with the official bottle.
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And um this is not like this goddamn meth hot sauce that you got cooking up in here.
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But this is some good [ __ ] I can't wait to try it. I can't wait to try it.
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you're a official hot boy. Oh, I'll take that.
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Thank you for killing my tongue.
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At least if you like cruelty, BUY THIS. OH GOD. I made it through. Mhm.
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And you wouldn't have took me out if you wouldn't have gave me this goddamn dagger in a bottle. You know what?
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You I didn't take you out.
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I I I tried as hard as I could to take you out. I couldn't take you out. Long as you knew. This was fun.
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Hot Ones Truth or Dab The Game.
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The kit comes complete with 250 question cards.
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And then here's how the game works.
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You just go around the table, you take turns being the host, being the players, and when you're a player and you get asked a question, you have a choice, just like in the show.
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Answer it honestly or suffer the wrath of the Last Dab and take a look at this.
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There's even a mini bottle of the Last Dab included.
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I suggest you have napkins on hand.
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You have to have some milk on hand.
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And of course, be careful.
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Be very careful around the eyes.
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