Megan Thee Stallion Opens 2024 BET Awards With Epic Efficiency

Megan Thee Stallion introduced her Hot Girl Summer Tour to the 2024 BET Awards on Sunday night time! The 29-year-old GRAMMY winner kicked off the night time’s festivities by opening the present with a efficiency that reminded everybody why she’s thee Sizzling Lady of hip-hop.

Rising from a large egg, Megan launched into her viral hit, “Hiss.” The rapper was then joined by a bunch of dancers as she carried out “BOA” and “The place Them Women At?” from her just lately launched album, Megan.  

Megan’s epic efficiency on the BET Awards stage comes days after she launched her third studio album, Megan. The album options 18 tracks, together with the beforehand launched singles, “Cobra,” “Hiss” and “BOA.” 

Megan is the rapper’s first album launch since testifying against former friend Tory Lanez throughout his felony assault trial in December. After a week-long trial, the Canadian musician was convicted on three counts at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Legal Justice Heart in Los Angeles. On Aug. 8, three years after Megan accused the Canadian of taking pictures her within the ft, Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Final September, Megan opened up to ET about what inspired her new album and stepping into the best mindset to launch new music.

“I really feel like I am in such a recent area, like the whole lot about me is new,” Megan stated. “My perspective, my vibe. I really feel like I am beginning a brand new chapter in my life. I feel I’ve simply gone by a lot and I am at some extent the place I do not care about a variety of stuff. I am simply so comfy with myself. I am like, ‘OK, at this level, lady, what is the worst factor that may occur?’ I am simply into taking dangers proper now.”

Explaining that she’s taken all social media apps off her cellphone, Megan stated doing so saved her from feeling pressured by the work of different musical artists.

“I haven’t got any inspiration from anyone out proper now [because] I really feel like as an artist, you see different artists doing issues and it is like, ‘Oh my god, I acquired to maintain up,'” she added. “I’ve no clue what anyone’s doing, so the music that I been making, it feels good to me.”

It was removed from a straightforward journey for the Houston-raised GRAMMY winner. 

“I all the time like to think about myself as a assured particular person, I all the time [act] that I did not care about a lot, I used to be nonchalant, nevertheless it took me to undergo issues the place so many individuals have been speaking about me continually, to the place I needed to notice, ‘OK, perhaps you are not as nonchalant and carefree as you thought you have been,'” she confessed. “So, I needed to take a step again [and] reevaluate myself. I needed to get in a cushty place with myself, and now I genuinely can say that I am in love with Megan. I am in love with Megan Thee Stallion.” 

Whereas Megan hasn’t garnered any nominations for Megan simply but, she earned four nods for this year’s BET Awards, together with Greatest Feminine Hip Hop Artist, BET Her Award for “Hiss,” and Greatest Collaboration and Greatest Video with Cardi B for their second provocative single, “Bongos.”

The 2024 BET Awards, hosted by Taraji P. Henson, airs live on the BET channel from the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 30, at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Try the complete winners list here.

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