The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2025 - Issue 37

bitemusicceleb I n some Southern US slang, ‘stallion’ is a col- loquialism for a tall, delicate, and voluptuous woman. This nickname was given to Megan Pete in her teenage years due to her 5 foot 10 height and curvy figure. “The first time I was ever called a stallion, I was at a football game, and this dude was like, damn lil mama you a stallion, and I was like, uhuh I’m 15, so I went home and asked my uncle, what is a stallion and why that dude call me that?” She embraced the term and eventually adopted it as her stage name. Her other alter-egos are Htown Hottie and Hot Girl Meg. “Htown Hottie is a nickname I gave myself—I thought it sounded cool, so I was like, yeah, I’ll be that,” she told Cosmopolitan in 2021. The other is like “the party girl, the college girl, she likes to turn up, she likes to have fun”, while the regular Meg goes to school and is respectful to her parents. Lastly, Tina Snow, referencing UGK member Pimp C’s alias Tony Snow, re- lates to her 2018 EP and her raw persona, who doesn’t give a damn. Born in San Antonio, Texas and raised in Hou- ston, Megan was exposed to music through her mother, Holly Thomas, known as rapper Hol- ly-Wood. “Holly-Wood is the first female rapper I’ve ever known, I’ve ever seen, so I’m thinking, ‘Ok, yeah, this is normal. Everybody’s doing this,” she told Vulture in 2019. “So when she took me to the studio with her, she thought I was in the next room doing little kid stuff, colouring, watch- ing TV, but I was like ear to the door, thinking, ‘Yeah, uh-huh, I’ma do that, too.’” Growing up, Megan listened to Biggie and Pimp C, which inspired her rapping style and would often steal her mother’s instrumentals to prac- tice writing on them. When she told her mother she could rap, Holly didn’t believe her until she demonstrated her skills. She quit her bill collector job to become her daughter’s manager and sup- ported her through her first record deal. Megan’s father, Joseph Pete Jr, who taught her self-worth, died when she was 15, and her mother died from brain cancer in 2019. Whenever