Megan Thee Stallion is going beyond the music in her first-ever documentary In Her Words. The film will premiere on Prime Video on Oct. 31, just in time for her annual Hottieween celebration. “I’m nervous and excited for yall to see it butttt it’s finally here,” the rapper wrote on Instagram.
In Her Words was directed by Nneka Onuorah, known for her work directing the eight-episode Lizzo series Watch Out for the Big Grrrls and the documentary The Legend of the Underground. With a runtime of nearly two hours, the documentary follows Megan through her whirlwind rise to stardom in hip-hop and beyond.
“Megan Thee Stallion: In Her Words offers unprecedented access to the multi-faceted woman behind the persona,” a synopsis for the film reads. “Follow the Houston native’s journey on the road to stardom as she tenaciously navigates fame, grief, pressure, and success. The documentary unpacks Megan’s most vulnerable moments in a powerful way that allows fans to meet the real Megan Pete.”
Megan had an explosive rise in the late 2010s, but it was 2019 that changed everything for her. “Big Ole Freak” from her Tina Snow EP was her breakthrough single and set the stage for her follow-up mixtape Fever, a blockbuster event for her signature Hot Girl Summer trend. But early that same year, Megan lost her mother — a Houston rapper known as Holly-Wood who later became her manager — to brain cancer. Two weeks later, her great-grandmother died, too.
Megan kept pushing forward, building an empire of a career while earning her bachelor’s degree in health administration from Texas Southern University. In March 2020, just as the world was shutting down, she proved to have an unstoppable hit on her hands with “Savage,” which received a Grammy Award-winning remix from Beyoncé just one month later. That year saw the released of two more career-defining records, the solo cut “Girls in the Hood” and her feature on Cardi B’s raunchy viral single “WAP.”
And in the midst of all of this, Megan grappled with the aftermath of being shot by Tory Lanez, a recording artist and former friend. In August 2023, Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison nearly eight months after he was found guilty of shooting the rapper in her feet following an argument in July 2020. The years-long ordeal saw Megan being constantly antagonized by the public and industry figures, alike. “I was very scared that I was not able to be Megan Thee Stallion no more,” she told Rolling Stone in 2022.
She added: “I’m trying every day to get through it and be good. I feel so bad because I don’t feel like anybody’s taking me seriously, but I don’t want them to see me cry. I don’t want them to know that I feel like this, because I don’t want them to feel like, ‘Oh, I got you. I’m breaking you.’” With In Her Words, Megan gets to control her own narrative.
