2024-07-31 17:25:01
Dressed in “hot girl” attire while bouncing and twerking to her hits, Megan Thee Stallion stumped for Vice President Kamala Harris‘ presidential campaign during a boisterous rally that featured fellow rapper Quavo as well as Stacey Abrams on Tuesday in Atlanta.
“We’re about to make history!” shouted Megan Thee Stallion while rapping her Grammy-winning hit “Savage,” wearing a Democrat blue suit and a tie with a cropped white shirt revealing her midriff. Visible from the stage was also a sign that read “Hotties For Harris.”
During the brief but energetic set, the Texas native and her dancers, who mirrored her dress with blue blazers, shorts and full white shirts but no ties, bounced through a handful of hits that also included “Girls in the Hood.” Just before performing “Body”, she made a strong campaign pitch for Harris. “I know my ladies in the crowd love their body. And if you want to keep loving your body, you know who to vote for,” she said.
Seconds into “Savage”, her last song, the Texas Southern University grad, a fellow HBCU alum to the VP, instructed the audience to “make some noise for Ms. Harris, our future president.”
Her performance came in the final stretch of a taut rally with a playlist very reflective of the city in which it was held, including “Welcome to Atlanta” from superproducer Jermaine Dupri, who was present to support Harris. At one point, the Dupri-produced “Never Scared” was played to emphasize that Harris was not afraid to debate former President Donald Trump. Various Democratic speakers, including former Georgia gubernatorial challenger Stacey Abrams and Senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, fired up the crowd.
As the program’s second speaker, Abrams reminded the crowd how Georgia saved the nation from Trump once before. In 2020, Abrams led the successful effort to turn Georgia blue for Biden-Harris while also helping to elect two Democratic U.S. Senators in Ossoff and Warnock to give the Democrats a slim advantage in the Senate. She also vowed that “we will not go back” to applause also peppered with chants to “lock him up” after describing the horrors Trump’s presidency entailed.
“We will do the work of making Kamala Harris not only someone who breaks ties in the Senate but breaks barriers in the Oval Office,” she ended to thunderous applause.
Not long after Megan left the stage, Migos rapper Quavo unexpectedly stepped out to speak in support of Harris, with whom he’s worked to resolve “the gun violence issue.” The issue hits very close to home for the Atlanta-area rapper who lost his fellow Migos member Takeoff, also his nephew, to gun violence in Houston almost two years ago. Speaking to his peers, the rapper said, “The one thing I learned about working with Vice President Harris is she always stands on business.”
Urging those who may have never voted to vote in this election, he promised them that “we’re changing the culture again” in reference to the Migos’ genre-changing, star-making 2017 album Culture. Donald Glover famously referenced one of its hit songs “Bad and Boujee” during his Golden Globes acceptance speech when his hit FX series Atlanta won best comedy, bringing the group mainstream attention.
Addressing the contentious border issue, a key Republican talking point for Trump, Harris evoked the rapper in summing up Trump’s questionable stance. “As my friend Quavo would say, he doesn’t walk it like he talks it,” she said, in reference to Migos’ Top 10 2018 hit “Walk It Talk It” with Drake from their Culture II album, as the crowd applauded.
Before closing out her speech on a high note that urged attendees to roll up their sleeves and work hard to secure victory on Nov. 5, a mere 98 days away, Harris noted her opponent’s unwillingness to debate her in September about his platform, which she stated includes an ongoing assault against women’s reproductive health and additional threats outlined in Project 2025.
“He won’t debate me, but he and his running mate sure have a lot to say about me,” she said. “As the saying goes, ‘If you got something to say, say it to my face.’”
