Megan Thee Stallion Is Clapping Back At Her Critics In The Perfect Way

Megan Thee Stallion arrives at the premiere of "Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words" on Wednesday, Oct.30, 2024, at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles.

via Associated PressThis article includes material from HuffPost’s weekly culture and entertainment newsletter, The Culture Catchall.Click here to subscribe.“A lot of people were trying to take control of my narrative and tell my story, so that’s why I even agreed to do the documentary in the first place.”Advertisement Speaking in front of a packed crowd at Los Angeles’ TCL Chinese Theatre on Wednesday, Megan Thee Stallion made her biographical vision clear.

At her film’s premiere, she explained why she had dared to put her life story on the big screen at just 29 years old.“Let me just tell my truth and lay it out on the table, because y’all don’t respect shit else but raw and honesty,” she said.“I was trying to be a cookie-cutter celebrity for y’all, but it didn’t work out… so y’all are about to experience Megan Pete for the first time.”In the documentary, Megan Thee Stallion peels back the curtain of her glamorous rapper persona to tell a candid story of ambition, sorrow and triumph.

It is raw, intimate and heartfelt.“Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words,” a memoir-style documentary directed by Nneka Onuorah, offers what its Amazon MGM Studios description calls “unprecedented access” to the multifaceted Houston native, who hustled to reach hip-hop success in just a few years after her rapper momager, the late Holly “Holly-Wood” Thomas, planted the seed during her childhood.

The film, which premiered on Prime Video on Oct.31, follows Megan “on the road to stardom as she tenaciously navigates fame, grief, pressure, and success,” according to the blurb, and uses creative animation to illustrate what cameras didn’t catch.

Advertisement For the past few years, we’ve witnessed in real time what Megan has achieved and endured.But between the Grammy wins, No.

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