Megan Thee Stallion brings her love for Japanese tradition to life in her newest music video.
On Friday, Aug. 9, the Grammy-winning rap star, 29, dropped the extremely anticipated visible for her viral hit “Mamushi” that includes Yuki Chiba — although it arrived a tad late because of some technical points. “Hotties we had technical difficulties however we dwell now!!!” Megan introduced on social media. “MAMUSHI VIDEO OUT EVERYWHERE🐍🐍🐍 HOTTIES RUN IT UP.”
The Kevin “Onda “Leyva-directed visible was filmed in Tokyo, with the rapper’s collaborator, Chiba, and Japanese actor Shô Kasamatsu (Tokyo Vice and Gannibal), who helped unravel a horny but sinister story that begins in a spa and ends elsewhere with Megan creating her personal blue-faced military of gangsters who invade mentioned spa.
The NSFW video opens with Kasamatsu taking part in a spa patron who’s launched to a room full of gorgeous Japanese girls and a fascinating Megan, who whisks him off solely to swallow him entire when she transforms right into a mamushi — the venomous Japanese viper, a nod to the rapper’s ongoing snake motif.
It goes on to indicate how Megan, because the viper, preys on the gangsters at her spa, sneaking up on them within the nude in a steamy pit earlier than they meet their demise. She then groups up with Chiba, who carries the deceased victims off to get them prepared to hitch the rapper’s military — a scene that additionally pays homage to Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s 1990 movie Goals.
The “Mamushi” video additionally highlights Megan’s viral choreography that she introduced in late June, which has since turn into its personal craze on TikTok. She carried out it over the past stretch of her Scorching Woman Summer season tour, which kicked off in Minneapolis on Might 14. She additionally carried out the tune with Chibafor the primary time throughout her closing tour cease in London.
“We about to do one thing actual cute for the final Scorching Woman Summer season area tour present. We ain’t did this s— the entire tour,” Megan instructed the gang, per a video shared by NME, earlier than bringing her rap collaborator out.
The rap star had been teasing the observe’s music video for days after that, dropping a snippet of it on social media on the prime of August captioned, “Its virtually timeee⭐️⭐️⭐️🐍🐍🐍 #MAMUSHI.”
Megan’s been on fairly a run since dropping her self-titled third album again in June. After concluding her summer season tour, the rapper made headlining appearances at Broccoli Metropolis Competition on July 27 and Lollapalooza on Aug. 1.
Days later, she celebrated her street run with an Instagram recap video captioned, “Thee #HotGirlSummerTour was EVERYTHINGGG ☀️🔥👙 I LOVE YOU HOTTIES 🥹🥹🥹 I’m undoubtedly gonna should run this tour again once more !!!”