(Megan’s father, Joseph Pete Jr., was incarcerated for the first eight years of her life after he got home, he and Megan were attached at the hip until he died when she was 15.) Along the way, in March 2019, she lost her mother - a Houston rapper known as Holly-Wood, who raised Megan on UGK and Biggie, and later became her manager - to brain cancer, then lost her great-grandmother just two weeks later. In just a few years, Megan Jovon Ruth Pete has gone from rapping at Houston kickbacks and strip clubs to becoming one of the biggest new superstars in music, assembling a legion of fans she’s dubbed Thee Hotties.
Megan has to look at her life the same way, or else the weight of the loss, violence, and vitriol she’s faced will pulverize her. Sure, breaking out of the ghost ship was hard, but it’s designed to be conquered. Next time we’ll be thinking three steps ahead.” “I’m starting to understand the rooms more, though.
“The first time we did it, it took way longer,” Megan says. Earrings and bracelets by Alexis Bittar.Įventually, we make it out with only a handful of hints from our game master. Styling by Eric Archibald and Hanna Isaksson. Production by SJ Ashby and Ryan Holt for Anderson Hopkins|Kindly Productions. Sam, of her Roc Nation management team, eventually knocks the key toward us with one of the poles. We prod at it with our hands and wooden poles we’ve been given. There’s a grid of rusty iron separating us from the other half of the room, where what looks like a birdcage hangs from the ceiling. First, we need to get the shackles off our feet. It seems we’ve been captured by wayward seamen cursed for all eternity for their sins, and we have 60 minutes to escape their ghost ship.
After we enter our room, Megan and I, along with three members of her team, each have a foot chained to the floor. “We did one before, and we were pretty bad at it,” she says of her last escape-room experience. Here, on this April evening, there are no festivals to rehearse for, no verses to perfect, no brand deals to broker, no rumors to right or trauma to relive or pretrial hearings to sit through - just Megan, a small crew, and a steely determination to conquer the game. For just an hour, Megan Thee Stallion’s world shrinks to the size of a Los Angeles escape room.
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