Megan Thee Stallion - Big Ole Freak

What this video is

Released February 28, 2019, the 'Big Ole Freak' official video arrived as Megan Thee Stallion was transitioning from Houston's local rap underground to national prominence. The song had been included on her 2018 EP Tina Snow and was issued as a radio single in January 2019, becoming her first Billboard Hot 100 charting track. The video's surrealist candy-world aesthetic, directed by debut collaborator Munachi…

Why it matters

A pivotal document in the late-2010s rise of Southern female rap, 'Big Ole Freak' marks the moment Houston's H-Town trap feminism entered the mainstream chart conversation. The video's candy-surrealism template — bold color, theatrical sets, unapologetic sexuality — established a visual vocabulary…

The director

Munachi Osegbu is a Nigerian-American director and photographer, based between Los Angeles, London, and NYC, who studied photography at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Known for a striking visual style traversing Afro-futurism, folklore, fantasy, and the…