The Houston Hottie Megan Thee Stallion recently appeared on Dua Lipa: At Your Service and spoke about her role in protecting Black women and the challenges women face in the male-dominated music industry.
Megan details the obstacles women face in a male-dominated field, referring to seeing women competing and believing men play a huge role in it and the importance of eradicating misogyny in the music industry by supporting and allowing other women a voice.
“When you think about women doing anything in general, you think ‘catty’… That’s what we’ve been taught for so long,” Megan said. “When you watch TV, you see a woman in competition with another. I think boys play a big part of that in the industry, too. You have your people that want to cheer you on but to uplift, you don’t have to put down someone else.”
She pointed out that male and female musicians have different standards during live performances and that women, in her opinion, are superior.
“It is a crazy double standard. Sometimes I just have to take it as ‘everyone knows that we are superior, so they expect us to arrive as the superior beings that we are,” Thee Stallion said. “We get critiqued so heavily because everyone knows women are the s**t, so everyone is looking for us to be the s**t all the time.”
Megan spoke candidly at the peak of the episode about using her platform to promote Black women’s protection. According to the rapper, Black women face an underappreciation, and because people see her as a strong woman, they don’t treat her like they would other women, gently.
“Black women are so underappreciated and so written off as a group of women who are super strong. You see us go through adversity, you see us go through any trial and tribulation, you see us as people who can go through these problems and we come out shining like we always do,” She explained. “Rarely do people check on us to treat us like we’re soft… I realized that because people thought I was so strong, they didn’t treat me like I was a fragile being, like they would to other women…. Being a Black woman is so much responsibility and you always have to be poise about it.”
Her comments about the lack of protection for Black women were warranted. Last month, she addressed a claim about a court hearing involving Tory Lanez, blasting DJ Akademiks for “spreading false narratives” about the case.
The duo also discussed collaborating for the first time on their new song “The Sweetest Pie.” The song serves as the first collaboration between the two artists. Megan describes the writing process and how she rewrote the song after hearing Dua Lipa’s voice for the first time.
“I wrote so many versions of this song,” Megan said. “Finally, when I heard your voice on it, I was like, ‘No – I need to rewrite all of this. It’s not good enough [for you].”
In support of their new single, “The Sweetest Pie,” released on Friday, Megan’s 45-minute episode from Dua Lipa’s iHeartRadio original podcast, produced by Studio 2054 Productions, was dropped the same day.
