Megan Thee Stallion Quotes

With 'Hip-Hop Saved My Life,' I attempted to make 'Kick, Push,' but for rappers. To give a real basic play-by-play of the life of a rapper before he makes it - if he ever makes it, because you can get stuck in that and be trying to make it for the rest of your life.

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

It's very hard to juggle a science fair project as well as your schoolwork.

Don't be fooled. Looks can be deceptive. Like every working mother, I'm paddling away like a duck beneath the water.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

When I was 20, I was the hustler - rubbing my temples, stressed, trying to get out the streets, trying to take my life to another side of the game with something I really loved to do: rap music.

Being in school and doing the fighting stuff, it is very tough. I had school work all the way from Monday through Friday, and then on the weekends, you had homework, engineering projects and stuff. That makes it very tough.

My friends who have kids look like they haven't been to bed for a year.

Why isn't there any 50-year-old MCs killing it? I'm 46. Am I the only one? I can't wait to get to 50. I'm going to let everybody know it! I'm going to wear a shirt that says 'I'm 50.'

I spent two years making music in San Francisco for my first mixtape. Initially, I was not at all doing this to be a professional rapper, a touring rapper. I didn't think I had that talent level in me.

My dad emphasized athletics. My mom did as well, but my mom was really hard on the academic end of things and always stressed, 'Hey, you've got to have the grades, you've got to be prepared for life outside of sports.'

When I was a first year student at Julliard, I wasn't happy, not sure about this acting thing.

Being a mum can be utterly overwhelming.

I went to uni, and I studied commerce on a scholarship, and that was crazy and wild in and of itself.

I know I haven't been the greatest student, but I do intend to get my degree. Otherwise, my mother will kill me.

We try to live as normal a life as we can, but it can be overwhelming at times.

I'm half-and-half on school. I had fun in grade school, but when I went to college, it was the worst place I've ever been in my entire life.

When you're a college student interested in music, you hear all these rappers talking about dropping out. For me, when I heard someone like J. Cole rapping about school and staying in school...it inspired me to keep going.

My father very early on had both short and long-term strategies in his approach to raising his children, so my father was disturbed by the extent to which I was interested in both hip-hop and sports.

I never thought a career as a musician was possible.

My grandparents really wanted me to go to Harvard. They thought that was writing your ticket for the future. How could I turn that down? But my mom knew I needed a balance. She knew that I loved basketball.

Going back about 10 years ago, the only thing a black kid could do to get out of the ghetto was being a sports star. Now we can add music to that, which is a good achievement in itself.

Football and school don't go together. They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs.

I knew I was going to be a 2019 XXL Freshman.