Megan Thee Stallion & Justin Timberlake Responded To Rumored ‘Beef’ At VMAs
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It wouldn’t be the VMAs without a little bit of controversy, but it turns out it wasn’t what it seemed. Megan Thee Stallion responded to the Justin Timberlake “fight” and we must confess, we’re relieved.
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Megan, whose full name is Megan Jovon Ruth Pete, was raised in San Antonio, Teas, and started writing raps at the age of 16. When she told her mom, Holly Aleece Thomas, that she wanted to be a rapper, her mother told her that she had to wait until she was 21 to pursue a music career. While she was a student at Prairie View A&M University, Megan started uploading videos of herself freestyle rapping on her social media.
After a video of her in a rap “cypher” against other male rappers went viral, Megan’s social media following started to explode. Around this time, she also chose the stage name Megan Thee Stallion, which was a reference to how she was called a “stallion” as a kid because of her height. (She’s 5’10”.)
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Timberlake, meanwhile, began his career in showbusiness in The Mickey Mouse Club, which earned him a contract with *NSYNC, which would become one of the biggest boy bands of the 90s. Stallion and Timberlake were both in attendance at the VMAs in September 2023, where *NSYNC reunited to present Taylor Swift with her award for Best Pop Video. Footage (watch it here) caught Megan and Timberlake in a supposedly tense verbal exchange backstage. Here’s what we know.
Megan Thee Stallion responds to Justin Timberlake Fight
Megan Thee Stallion responded to claims she was fighting with Justin Timberlake backstage with a TikTok to show there’s no bad blood between them. “I just talk with my hands🤷🏽♀️ lol @justintimberlake love ya,” Megan shared on TikTok, showing her and Timberlake sitting next to each other, smiling and laughing.
“He said, ‘It’s so nice to meet you,’ and she said ‘No, no this don’t count, this don’t count. We gotta meet proper,’” a source told Variety. “It was very cute.” A second eyewitness source added, “Meg loves Justin. She was saying ‘No, no, no, we’ve never met before’. It was their first time meeting and she was excited.”
Fans speculated that perhaps some strong words had been exchanged. “Did Justin Timberlake say something to piss off Megan Thee Stallion? We still haven’t forgiven you for what you did to Janet Jackson.. Do we have a problem?” one fan tweeted. Another observed, “Wtf did he say to her??? Justin Timberlake & Megan Thee Stallion.”
Meghan was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020, the same year she published her groundbreaking piece “Why I Speak Up For Black Women” in The New York Times; all of this after losing her mom, Holly Thomas, in March 2019 and being shot by rapper Tory Lanez in Hollywood in 2020.
When Lanez was sentenced, Megan was not in attendance but instead submitted a written statement on her behalf. “He not only shot me, he made a mockery of my trauma. He tried to position himself as a victim and set out to destroy my character and my soul,” Megan’s message read. “He lied to anyone that would listen and paid bloggers to disseminate false information about the case on social media.”
“He released music videos and songs to damage my character and continue his crusade. At first, he tried to deny the shooting ever happened. Then, he attempted to place the blame on my former best friend. In his tantrum of lies, he’s blamed the system, blamed the press and, as of late, he’s using his childhood trauma to shield himself and avoid culpability.”
Megan publicly spoke out against all the backlash and talked about the trial in multiple instances. “I want him to go to jail,” Megan told Rolling Stone in a cover story in 2022. “I want him to go under the jail. I think it’s so crazy that people are able to get online or publish anything that is not a 100 percent fact,”.”That really is messing with my life. How are you able to do it and get away with it?”
History of the VMAs
The first MTV Video Music Awards were held on September 14, 1984, with Madonna, Tina Turner, David Bowie, Rod Stewart and more as performers. Since then, the VMAs, which were originally created as an alternative to the Grammys but for music videos, have been a cultural phenomenon with millions of viewers and votes each year.
Unlike the Grammys, which are voted on by members of the Recording Academy, the VMAs are voted on by fans who come together to snag their favorite artists a Moon Person award. The award, which features a silver astronaut with an MTV flag, was changed from Moon Man to Moon Person in 2017 to be inclusive of all genders. “Why should it be a man?” Chris McCarthy, president of MTV, told the New York Times in 2017. “It could be a man, it could be a woman, it could be transgender, it could be nonconformist.”
As fans know, the VMAs have also been the home to countless water cooler moments, from the 2009 show where Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift to the 2015 show where Nicki Minaj called out Miley Cyrus. The VMAs are never short of viral moments and performances.
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