Megan Thee Stallion Graciously Accepts Trailblazer Award at iHeartRadio Music Awards, Vows to Persist
“I will keep on fighting for all the injustices that me, my Black women, my Black men are facing,” the rapper said while accepting the Trailblazer Award at the iHeartRadio Music Awards.
Megan Thee Stallion is getting major props for her impact on the music industry and beyond.
At the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Tuesday, the rapper, 27, was presented this year’s Trailblazer Award by Kelly Rowland.
“First of all, girl, thank you Kelly for presenting me with this award because miss ma’am you know you’re a Houston legend, and we love you,” Megan began as she started to accept her award, calling attention to both of their Texas roots.
“Second, I want to say thank you iHeart for presenting me with this award,” she continued. “My people over there … Shoutout to Houston! OK, I’m about to wrap it up, I swear.”
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Before concluding her speech, Megan made sure to thank all “the women who blazed the trail before me.”
“Without them, there would be no me,” she said. “Without the H๏τties there would be no H๏τ Girl Coach.”
“I want to say with my platform, I will keep on continuing to be a voice for the voiceless, I will keep on fighting for all the injustices that me, my Black women, my Black men are facing, and I will keep showing up and showing out even in the face of adversity,” she added. “I go by the name of Megan Thee Stallion, aka the H๏τ Girl Coach and if you ain’t know about me, ask your boo about me.”
Jennifer Lopez, LL Cool J, Megan Thee Stallion, Jason Aldean to Perform at 2022 iHeartRadio Music Awards
Megan Thee Stallion. Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
During the show, Megan also gave a performance — complete with some twerking on a piano — of “Megan’s Piano” and “Sweetest Pie,” her new duet with Dua Lipa which dropped earlier this month.
While chatting with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Megan opened up about the track and how it came to be. “I be seeing everybody making mashups of me and Dua songs and I’m like, ‘No, this sounds too good. We have to make a song,’” she said.
Noting that she got in contact with Lipa to collaborate, Megan explained, “I was like, ‘Dua, I really want us to do a song, but I got to find that right beat. It has to be perfect.’ ”
“So I didn’t just send her no any track,” she added. “I waited till I had the perfect one and I feel like we both came to a mutual agreement that it was greatness — and now we got ‘Sweetest Pie.’”
