“I want to “Start saying Hotties for Harris!” Megan Thee Stallion declared as she took the stage at the Georgia State Convention Center in Atlanta.
The three-time Grammy winner was there to perform at Vice President Kamala Harris’s first campaign rally in the city as the presumptive Democratic nominee. Naturally, Meghan wore a bright blue suit fit for a sexy woman — a cropped blazer, button-down shirt, skinny jeans and a matching tie. She made sure to feel her bearings and keep the dance modest as she and a crew of dancers broke out into “Girls in the Hood,” a cover of Eazy-E’s 2020 classic.
As she performed her hit song “Mamushi”, the crowd sang along, but the real reason she was there soon became apparent when she switched to performing “Body”.
“Now I know the ladies in the crowd love their bodies,” she said after finishing a Mamushi dance break. “And you want to keep loving your bodies — you know who to vote for!” As she performed a remix of “Savage,” she told the crowd that “real savages” were voting.
“I am so excited to be here in Atlanta! We are about to make history with our first female president,” the artist said. “Our first black president! Let’s get this done!”
Meghan was no stranger to advocacy. In 2021, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, who died on July 19, presented Meghan with their district’s Humanitarian Award. When Roe v. Wade In 2022, she reversed her decision, announcing the decision during her performance at Glastonbury Festival in the UK, leading the crowd in a chant of “My body, my fucking choice”, echoing the lyrics of her 2022 song “Gift and Curse”.
The rapper continued to highlight the line on the road, giving it a standout moment at the Broccoli City Festival in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, just two days before the rally.
In 2020, when she made her first appearance on Saturday Night Live as a musical guest, Megan highlighted the killing of Breonna Taylor, a black emergency medical technician in Kentucky who was shot by police when plainclothes officers executed a search warrant at her home obtained with a false affidavit. Megan’s performance at the time featured the phrase “protect black women” and included audio clips of activist Tamika Mallory condemning Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s handling of the case. It also included a portion of a famous 1962 speech by Malcolm X, in which the civil rights leader said, “The most neglected and disrespected person in America is the black woman.”
Shortly after her performance on Saturday Night Live, she published an article in the newspaper The New York Times In a post on her Facebook page titled “Why I Stand Up for Black Women,” she linked the Tory Lanez shooting to other instances of misogyny in violence, as well as health care, pop culture, and politics. “I am not afraid of criticism,” she wrote. “We live in a country where people are free to criticize elected officials. It is ridiculous that some people think the simple phrase ‘protecting black women’ is controversial.”
