Let’s take it down a notch.
This past weekend was the Bay Area iteration of Rolling Loud. The festival hired influencer and author, Brittany Renner to conduct some of their backstage interviews with performing artists. While Renner spoke to many of hip hop’s current stars, the Internet is specifically talking about her awkward interview with Megan Thee Stallion.
Can we take a moment to appreciate not only how beautiful, intelligent, and talented Meg is but how much her inner beauty shines through???! I was so hype to meet @theestallion 🥰😩😂🐎💗 Day 1 was a success @rollingloud 🎤 pic.twitter.com/vfyXNmjiQm
— Brittany Renner (@brittanyrennerr) September 29, 2019
From the jump, Renner appears far too excited for someone who is supposed to be concerned with leading an interesting interview. She’s overtaken by a desire to fangirl and befriend Meg, causing the whole conversation to collapse into discomfort. Rather than asking the “Hot Girl Summer” artist a proper question, Renner starts with, “Bitch, you are really that bitch, though.” Meg doesn’t know how to respond, likely because they wasn’t really a question. For the rest of the interview, Renner is jumpy and Meg appears wary. At one point, Meg even walks off camera and Renner shouts for her to come back. When she returns, Renner continues with her compliments and bitch-calling. “You are really fucking beautiful in person, bitch,” she says. Meg gives the hilariously ambiguous response: “You gotta stop.”
.@brittanyrennerr x @theestallion 🔥
Rolling Loud Bay Area pic.twitter.com/px832ppV8a
— Rolling Loud (@RollingLoud) September 29, 2019
Twitter is calling out Renner for what they’re calling “code-switching,” adopting AAVE (African American Vernacular English) in attempt to hit it off with the highly-admired artist, but the attempt falls flat. Read some of the reactions below.
What kinda “journalist” calls their interview a “bitch” three diff times…like I get it’s colloquial but this clip is cringey AF.
Respeck & Protecc @theestallion pic.twitter.com/asOwUOfrXY
— Hot Girl Jagger ✨ (@BasicBlaecGirl) September 29, 2019
I like Brittany Renner but the Meg interview was cring-y.. why tho? I felt weird the whole time watching it 😣
— stuffed crust (@natashaelise_) September 30, 2019
1. It’s Brittany Renner so that should’ve been expected
2. She not a real journalist
3. She sounds drunk https://t.co/rbpHQo9hoM— Audemars (@THEAdrianPearce) September 29, 2019
is that brittany renner? ew…. she really didn’t have to touch meg 😐 you can clearly see she didn’t want to be touched. https://t.co/v9QsZwJ1du
— ً (@llerameilla) September 29, 2019
Don’t group journalists in with Brittany Renner please lol https://t.co/xHyT3H37TL
— Lo Esteen (@thelodownn) September 29, 2019