The artist behind the art for “Hot Girl Summer,” Kedar Griffith, on drawing Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj, and more.

Hot girl summer, the movement, came first: Fans of hip-hop star Megan Thee Stallion created the phrase to embody the “hot girl” lifestyle she promotes—which is gender-neutral, by the way. Megan said of “hot girl summer” in the Root in June, “It’s about women and men being unapologetically them, just having a good-ass time, hyping up their friends, doing you.” The idea got so popular that eventually Megan tweeted, “I feel like it’s only right I drop a hot girl summer song before the summer is over.” Earlier this month, that song arrived, and with it came cover art featuring playful cartoons of Megan and Nicki Minaj, who is featured on the track, riding a liquor bottle before a fiery backdrop. Slate spoke to Kedar “FlashGrfx” Griffith, the 29-year-old artist who created the cover, about how he approached making a stand-in for a giant meme, Megan Thee Stallion’s tongue, Nicki Minaj’s hair, and more. It’s girls having fun, twerking.” Rayna, she helped out a lot on this project too as far as the facial expressions and stuff like that, of Nicki and Meg Thee Stallion.