Webby Awards: Megan Thee Stallion Named Artist of the Year for Empowering Black Women Online
thewrap.comWebby Awards website.The IADAS gave its top honor to Megan Pete, aka Megan Thee Stallion, who may need to buy bigger trophy case.
She’s already won three Grammys, four American Music Awards, six BET awards, five BET hip-hop awards, and two MTV Video Music Awards.“Megan Thee Stallion doesn’t subscribe to limitations,” the org wrote in its announcement. “She uses the Internet to demonstrate this fact — from topping multiple streaming charts, to releasing her Internet-breaking single ‘WAP’ and its accompanying music video, to inspiring multiple TikTok challenges with each single she drops, to her Snap Original Series ‘Off Thee Leash,’ to ‘Enter Thee Hottieverse,’ her upcoming virtual reality concert tour.“Even more, as an entertainer, philanthropist and entrepreneur, Megan Thee Stallion uses the Internet and social media as her megaphone to empower and speak up for Black women.
From penning her New York Times Essay ‘Why I Speak Up for Black Women,’ to shedding light on Internet culture’s tendency to discredit and ridicule Black women who speak out on abuse they have suffered, while propping up abusers.
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