To be completely honest, I had more fun working on this story than anything up to this point. Here’s the lede:
When you cement plans to wrap up your undergraduate degree in a worldwide hit song, the pressure is on to meet your self-imposed deadline.
Rap superstar Megan Thee Stallion—known as Megan Pete at her HBCU alma mater Texas Southern University—fulfilled the promise she made in summer chart topper “Thot Shit”: that in “2021, finna graduate college.” As fans celebrated her walk across the stage in December with the hashtag #MeganTheeGraduate, there are signs that the Houston native could be inspiring others to do the same.
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