Megan Thee Stallion Opens Up About Being Shot by Tory Lanez in 2020: ‘I Was So Scared’ (Video)

Megan Thee Stallion got emotional as she received a key to her hometown city of Houston, Texas, on Sunday.

Happy Megan Thee Stallion Day! Fans of the 27-year-old rapper have a lot to celebrate after this weekend.On Sunday, Megan was honored by her hometown of Houston, Texas, with a key to the city and a declaration that May 2 would be known as «Megan Thee Stallion Day.» Sylvester Turner, Mayor of Houston, marked the special occasion with a post on his Instagram page, praising the rapper for her philanthropic pursuits, which include the 2021 launch of the Pete and Thomas Foundation memorializing Megan's mother and father.«Today, I was proud to take a moment to celebrate the philanthropic contributions of Megan @theestallion along with her family and many of our Council Members. Her contributions to #Houston have helped a tremendous amount of people and uplifted our city when we needed it the most,» he captioned a gallery of photos showing Megan and her family at her key-receiving ceremony in Houston. «During the height of the #COVID19 pandemic in April of 2020, Megan donated supplies, money, and tablets to nursing home residents and staff who were isolated and could not have visitors.

Megan Thee Stallion Day in Houston, where the rapper grew up.Megan Pete was honoured at a ceremony on Sunday (May 1) in which Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner along with members of Houston City Council celebrated her philanthropic achievements, which include launching the Pete and Thomas Foundation in 2021.The non-profit, set up to honour Pete’s late mother and father, focuses on programs that address education, housing, health and wellness in Houston, Texas, and elsewhere.“Megan Thee Stallion has an extraordinary entertainment career, but we wanted to honor her for what she does offstage to lift people’s lives in underserved communities,” Turner said while presenting Megan with the key to the city.“She assisted people after the 2021 winter storm, during the pandemic, and helped those struggling with homelessness. I look forward to watching her grow as an artist and humanitarian.”May 2 is a significant date for Meg, whose mother and grandmother were both born on the date.

Megan Thee Stallion has shared more details of the night she was shot during a July 2020 incident involving Torey Lanez.In her first TV interview which aired today (April 25) on CBS Mornings,the rapper, whose real name is Megan Pete, told Gayle King what happened the night she says Lanez shot her in both feet at a party in Los Angeles.“I was ready to go, and everybody else wasn’t ready to go. But that’s, like, normal friend stuff,” she told King. “So I get out of the car and it’s like everything happens so fast.

Megan Thee Stallion is opening up about the alleged shooting that took place in July 2020 between her and Tory Lanez. In an interview with Gayle King on , the 27-year-old rapper gets emotional as she details the shooting that saw bullet fragments allegedly hit her feet, requiring emergency surgery.Gayle asks Megan what started the argument in the car before the alleged shooting and the rapper recalls how «everything happens so fast.»  «There was an argument because I was ready to go, and everybody else wasn’t ready to go,” Megan says as she begins to cry. »But that's like normal friend stuff. We fuss about silly stuff all the time.

Megan Thee Stallion is opening up during her first TV interview about the alleged shooting that took place in July 2020 between her and rapper, Tory Lanez.

Megan Thee Stallion has recalled the night she was shot in a preview of a new TV interview, saying she was “really scared” during the incident.The rapper, whose real name is Megan Pete, gave her first TV interview about the shooting to CBS’ Gayle King. The full conversation will air in full on the TV station tomorrow (April 25).The preview begins with the star explaining the context behind the incident, saying it started with “an argument because I was ready to go and everybody else wasn’t ready to go”. “But that’s normal friend stuff,” she added.

Megan Thee Stallion is speaking out about the alleged 2020 shooting with Tory Lanez in her first TV interview.

Megan Thee Stallion wanted to leave a party sooner than her friends. An argument escalated and then things turned violent, she told Gayle King during a CBS Mornings interview that airs tomorrow.

Megan Thee Stallion is opening up during her first TV interview about the alleged shooting that took place in July 2020 between her and rapper, Torey Lanez.In an interview with Gayle King, airing Monday on , the 27-year-old gets emotional as she details the shooting that saw bullet fragments allegedly hitting her feet, requiring emergency surgery.“There was an argument in the car," King asks the rapper. “There was an argument because I was ready to go, and everybody else wasn’t ready to go,” the «Plan B» rapper said as she began to cry.  “But that’s like normal friend stuff.

Megan Thee Stallion is opening up about the alleged 2020 shooting involving Tory Lanez.

Megan Thee Stallion‘s live performance of her hit Cardi B collaboration ‘WAP’ at Coachella last weekend was subject to censorship on the Chinese social media and messaging app WeChat.The Houston rapper’s set was broadcast live from the Indio, California festival on Saturday (April 16) as part of Coachella’s YouTube coverage.WeChat users who tuned into the livestream of Megan’s set over the weekend, which was not legally broadcast in China, were greeted with the sight of the platform’s censors attempting to block out aspects of the performance.As The Hollywood Reporter reports, Megan’s performance of ‘WAP’ in particular saw the censors frantically attempt to cover the rapper and her backing dancers with a black box while they performed a series of dance routines.Coachella is also being livestreamed via WeChat. Apparently, this performance not only made censors sweat, everyone was also joking that they're singing a song about Shanghai Puxi District.

heavily-censored nation were able to tune-in to the two-weekend festival in Indio, California via the app WeChat, including the 27-year-old rapper’s performance on Saturday evening.In a farcical attempt to adhere to community standards on the Chinese social networking app, moderators used a floating black box to cover Megan and her dancers’ butts, but failed to keep up with their gymnastic twerking. Footage pulled from WeChat shows the black box wildly bounced from side to side and confused viewers as to what exactly they were trying to censor. The restricted livestream took further liberties with the lyrics of “WAP,” Megan’s acronymic 2021 hit featuring Cardi B, remixing the X-rated phrase to “Wet Ass Puxi,” in reference to the district of Shanghai that is currently under lockdown amid a new surge of COVID-19.The Grammy-winning artist also performed fan favorites including “Savage,” “To Whom the F–k It May Concern” and “Sweetest Pie.”Fans mocked the suppression snafu on Twitter.

receive the Icon Award during the ceremony. The “Family Affair” songstress has received 10 Billboard awards in her lifetime, including nine statues for female R&B/hip-hop artist of the year and female Hot 100 artist.Past recipients of the Icon Award include superstars Pink, Garth Brooks, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Cher.The 51-year-old Blige gushed over the honor in a statement earlier this month.

Billboard Music Awards are bringing your favorites to the stage! The first set of performers for this year's award show were announced on April 19, including Megan Thee Stallion and The Red Hot Chili Peppers.Megan Thee Stallion is set to make her Billboard Music Award debut at the event, which takes place at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 15. In addition to her performance, the 27-year-old rapper is also a finalist for Top Rap Female Artist, the same category she won the Billboard Music Award for in 2021.The Red Hot Chili Peppers, meanwhile, are making their BBMAs comeback after 23 years.

Megan Thee Stallion made her Coachella debut on Saturday, and gave her «hotties» a first taste of a brand new track that's sure to be a summer banger.On April 7, the rapper took to Twitter to give her fans a hint of what was to come before she appeared at Coachella's first festival since the COVID-19 pandemic began. «I got this song that I recorded and every time I play it for a woman they start jumping and clapping,» she wrote. «I think I wanna perform it at Coachella for the first time before I actually drop it.»Cue her performance on Saturday, when she called the song «very motherf**king personal» and personally dedicated it «to whom it may the f**k concern.» The diss track -- reportedly called «You's a B*tch» according to samples Jodeci and Wu-Tang's «Freak'n You Remix» and takes aim at an ex, with lines like «popping Plan B's cuz I ain't plan to be stuck with 'cha» and «dick don’t run me, I run dick.» And the GRAMMY winner echoed the sentiments of iconic rappers before her like Queen Latifah and Lil' Kim as she rapped, «Ladies, love yourself cause’ this sh*t could get ugly, that’s why it's f**k n****s, get money.».@theestallion performs a new song at #Coachellapic.twitter.com/sFt5w9C414The Texas Southern University graduate also performed her hits «Body,» «Savage,» «Eat It,» and «WAP» during the first weekend of the music festival, as well as her and Dua Lipa's new collaboration, «Sweetest Pie,» which dropped last month. On Monday, the rapper took to Instagram to give fans a clearer listen to that already-classic first verse, writing, «If you was wondering YEAH BOY IM STILL THAT B****

Megan Thee Stallion is enjoying a night off the stage!