During a performance in Atlanta as part of her Hot Girl Summer Tour, Megan Thee Stallion announced that her self-titled third studio album will be released later this month. According to Variety Megan will be the first under the Houston native’s Hot Girl Productions.
The album announcement was not without complications, as the “WAP” MC was forced to reschedule her shows in Atlanta due to burst water pipes and outages. Fans who bought tickets for the May 31 show learned of the news just an hour before the doors were set to open, Fox 5 Atlanta reported. Initially scheduled for June 1, the second stop in Atlanta was postponed to Monday about 30 minutes before doors opened, while Friday was moved to Sunday.
During Sunday’s performance at State Farm Arena, the rapper shared the news about her album and its artwork, which features the Texan hanging upside down in a butterfly cocoon.
During the show, she also brought along fellow rapper Latto, and they performed their song “Budget,” taken from Megan’s second album, traumazine, For the first time. Megan also sang a verse on Latto’s recent track, “Sunday Service,” revealing that she will be on the remix.
Come on Megan‘s release, the rapper has released three singles expected to appear on the album: “Cobra,” “Boa” and “Hiss,” a diss track that addressed a line from Megan that Nicki Minaj interpreted as shade for her. “Hiss” quickly became the rapper’s first No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist – it is unknown if another single will be released. Megan‘s June 28 arc.
“I don’t even know how to describe it [the new album], honestly,” the 29-year-old told L’Officiel in a recent interview. “’Hiss’ was me just getting the things I had to say off my chest. I’m really not focused on the negativity on my album. I have a lot of different songs on the album because my emotion doesn’t stop at anger. My emotion does not stop at sadness because I have grown and started to feel more things. I started to feel really happy. So there are songs on the album that are about the positive times that I’m starting to experience. You get a little bit of everything. It gives you all the emotions.”
Meg’s Hot Girl Summer Tour continues across the United States before hitting Europe in July and returning to Washington, DC, for the Broccoli City Festival on September 27.
