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Megan Thee Stallion is fed up.
The 28-year-old rapper from Houston has had enough of all the gossip blogs, podcasters, fellow rappers and everyone in between having her name in their mouths.
So if you are wondering why Megan Thee Stallion, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Cardi B, Pardison Fontaine (or Pardi for short) have been trending on your various social media timelines since late last night, I can help you out.
Megan released her latest single “Hiss” at midnight, and in it, she lets the chopper spray.
On the track, Megan takes shots at her ex-boyfriend Pardi, Drake, Nicki Minaj, and anyone who had something negative to say about her before, during, and after Tory Lanez’s trial, conviction, and subsequent sentencing for shooting her in both feet.
No one was spared, and every line was razor-sharp, and while Megan did name specifically name names, as she told “The Breakfast Club” on Friday morning, “a hit dog gon’ holler” and “whoever feel it feel it.”
She was apparently right because one person, in particular, seemed to take Megan’s diss very personally, and she spent most of the night after the song dropped attempting to clap back at Megan. That person was Nicki Minaj.
Megan raps “These hoes don’t be mad at Megan; they be mad at Megan’s law,” which refers to the legal requirement that convicted sex offenders register with local law enforcement wherever they live so that the public can be made aware of their presence.
The line is an obvious barb (pun intended) directed at Nicki’s husband, Kenneth Petty, who was convicted of the attempted rape of a 16-year-old (he was also 16 at the time) in 1995. In 2022, Petty found himself in trouble after failing to register as a sex offender when he moved with…
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