![]() Aesthetically, Fever is heavily influenced by the film genre blaxploitation, with the album cover specifically drawing comparisons to American actress Pam Grier. Megan Thee Stallion has not only cited Three 6 Mafia as a major influence on the record, but also ultimately on her as a musician. Many of the works sampled were originally made by or are directly related to the hip hop group Three 6 Mafia, of which Juicy J is apart of. ![]() Production throughout the record also heavily incorporates the use of sampling. American record producer LilJuMadeThatBeat is credited as a producer on six of the fourteen tracks included on Fever, while American rapper and record producer Juicy J as credited as a producer on three and a featured artist on one. It consists primarily of "minimal bass-heavy production". "Cash Shit" would also go on to become Megan Thee Stallion's first-ever RIAA-certified platinum single, and her second-ever top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, after "Hot Girl Summer".įever is a hip hop record with trap influences. The song "Cash Shit" featuring DaBaby was released as the third single and reached a peak of number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100. This single was later accompanied by a music video on May 21, 2019. The second single, "Realer", was released a day before the mixtape. The lead single from Fever, "Sex Talk", had prior been released to all major streaming services and digital platforms on March 22, 2019. Despite the announcement being captioned "coming soon", the project was not released. In July 2019, Megan Thee Stallion teased the release of Fever: Thee Movie, a cinematic project directed by Hype Williams. ![]() The rapper officially revealed the album cover and tracklist on May 14, 2019. The trailer is a snippet of the music video for "Realer" (which was yet to be released), in which Hot Girl Meg drives in a red convertible with three other women. With this newly-cumulated audience, the rapper formally announced the release of Fever alongside a trailer posted to her social media accounts on which introduced "Hot Girl Meg", an alter ego for the mixtape. In April 2019, Megan Thee Stallion scored her first chart entry on the Billboard Hot 100 with the single "Big Ole Freak" from the EP Tina Snow (2018), signifying her mainstream popularization.
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