Megan Thee Stallion Tells Apple Music About ‘Traumazine,’ Controlling Her Narrative, And Her Mother’s Influence

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Megan Thee Stallion has been extremely active these past few months as anticipation for her new album built. On August 15, she appeared on Apple Music 1 for a candid conversation with Nadeska and Ebro Darden in the wake of dropping Traumazine last week.“I feel like my happiest interviews have been with both of y’all,” the Texas Southern graduate stated. “And I feel like my first interviews have been with y’all, and I feel like my most comfortable interviews have been with y’all, and I feel like you asked me questions that other people wouldn’t ask me, and you definitely be talking to me how other people don’t talk to me.

So, I feel like I don’t want to do a lot of talking in this era of my life. And I feel like this was the only conversation I wanted to have for real.”Article continues after video.During the interview Megan also spoke about how she felt while recording her new body of work, and also highlighted a few of the tracks from the album, as well as some of Traumazine’s guest features, such as Rico Nasty and Jhené Aiko.

The Houston-bred rapper also touched upon taking control of her narrative, and why she made this album more for herself than previous projects.“I don’t write songs about how I feel, I write songs about how I want to feel,” Megan said on Apple Music 1. “So I feel like on this album, it’s probably the first time I figured out how to talk about what I want to say… express myself a little bit more.

So that’s just how I’ve been living life. And I feel like it’s been so easy for people to tell my story for me, speak on my behalf because I’m a nonchalant person, I feel like.”“People be talking about me and I be like, okay,” she continued. “But like I see now that it can get out of control so I feel like.