Megan Thee Stallion

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🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Megan Thee Stallion is everywhere — including in court, testifying against the rapper Tory Lanez, who is charged with shooting her. Vox’s Fabiola Cineas explains. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh and Siona Peterous, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I was listening to Drake's new album.
0:07.9	He's actually rapping again, which is nice.
0:10.1	But then he says something that totally takes me out of the experience.
0:16.2	This B-word lie about getting shots, but she's still a stallion.
0:23.6	Clearly a reference to a traumatic night in 2020 when Megan the stallion says she was shot
0:28.8	by another Canadian rapper named Tori Lanes.
0:32.0	And I'm like, why is Drake calling Megan a liar?
0:35.3	Why would he put that in a song?
0:37.0	It feels cheap, it feels mean.
0:39.5	But it turns out their legion hip-hop fans out there who think Megan the stallion is lying,
0:45.0	who aren't interested in waiting to hear the results of the trial of Tori Lanes that
0:49.8	started this week.
0:51.3	Why that is coming up on today's point.
1:16.6	4, the UK's biggest free-sfreebing service, this is to day explain, Megan the stallion
1:44.6	is one of the biggest musicians in the world right now.
1:47.7	New album, posting SNL Forbes 30 under 30,
1:51.0	she's on the cover, a world tour coming up in the new year,
1:54.2	she's everywhere, including this week,
1:56.7	testifying in court about getting shot by another rapper.
2:00.3	We asked Fabiola Sineas at Vox,
2:03.1	how this person who's literally sitting on top of the world
2:07.1	is also really going through it right now.
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