Megan Thee Stallion announced her mother and manager Holly “Holly-Wood” Thomas passed away in an Instagram post on Friday.
Uploading a throwback post of her smiling in front of her mother, she wrote, “The best mom in the whole world. The strongest woman on the planet. I can’t even put complete sentences together rn RIP mama.”
The rising rapper was bitten by the music bug after watching her mother perform under the stage name Holly-Wood as a child. So inspired by her mother’s skills, she began writing her own verses secretly before sharing them with her mother.
Reflecting on her experience with having a “mom-ager” who previously pursued a career in rap, she told VIBE, “Sometimes when we’re in the studio, I get her so hyped that she’s like, ‘Megan, I’m about to get in the booth and come out with another mixtape.’ I don’t think that will happen because we bump heads, and we would definitely bump heads trying to write together.”
The cause of Thomas’ death has not officially been confirmed, but the rapper has been asking fans to send prayers out for her mother for several months now.
This is the second devastating loss Megan Thee Stallion has encountered this month. On March 8, she revealed that her great-grandmother passed away.
