Houston, TX – Rising Hip Hop star Megan Thee Stallion is mourning the loss her mother and manager, Holly Thomas, who recently lost her battle with brain cancer.
The 24-year-old Houston native broke the heartbreaking news to fans on Instagram Friday (March 22) with a throwback picture a young Megan and her mom.
“The best mom in the whole world,” she captioned in her post. “The strongest woman on the planet. I can’t even put complete sentences together rn RIP mama.”
She later confirmed on Instagram it was due to “a brain tumor that had been cancerous for a while.”
Megan was extremely close to her mother who was always right by her side from the beginning. Her mom and grandma are two the biggest reasons the buzzing star chose to finish her Healthcare Administration degree at Texas Southern University and references this motivation on her Tina Snow EP cut “Tina Montana.”
“My momma told me to get em I got em / My granny told me you goin’ to school / Getting that degree and making it cool,” she spits on the track.
Holly also happened to be a former MC herself and went by the moniker Holly-Wood, introducing the burgeoning rhymer to the art lyricism at a very early age.
Once Megan’s career noticeably began to take f, that is when her mother Holly stepped in to become her manager.
“She quit her job, like her regular job, and now she’s my full-time manager,” she said in an interview HipHopDX last year, adding “Oh yes. She’s, she’s happy.”
On top having to go through the loss her mother, Megan’s great-grandmother “Bigmamma” passed away earlier this month on March 7.
“I just lost Bigmamma yesterday but she lived such a full beautiful life and taught so many lessons and touched so many people that we are going to celebrate her home going instead dwelling in the pain loosing her ? thank you to all these women for making me who I am today,” Meg wrote under a picture herself as a child while surrounded by her mom, grandma, and great-grandmother.”
HipHopDX sends our heartfelt condolences to Megan Thee Stallion and her family.