Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj are channelling their inner Jada Kingdom and Stefflon Don, with a lyrical feud of their own.

 Megan’s HISS and Nicki Minaj’s Bigfoot have the hip-hop community excited for the outcome of the vicious lyrical jabs being dealt to one another.

It all began as subliminal and cryptic messages in songs and tweets between the two, dating back to 2019 due to allegations made by Nicki Minaj. She claimed that Megan tried forcing her to drink alcohol while she was actively trying to conceive, amongst other allegations on Megan’s character.

The feud reached a crescendo when both artistes dropped new singles within days of each other in January 2024. Megan’s HISS is a diss track directed at Tory Lanez, Drake, and Nicki Minaj. In the track, Meg mentions Megan’s Law, a US law that mandates authorities to make information available to the public regarding registered sex offenders; a clear jab at Minaj who is married to a registered sex offender, and whose brother was sentenced to prison for child sex assault in 2020.

Minaj fired back with a four-minute and twenty-two-second track response to Megan, trolling the multiple Grammy Award winner’s rapping ability, questioning her character and mentioning her deceased mother Holly Thomas.

Still, the public’s response to the “Megan’s Law” line in HISS has been greeted more favourably in comparison to Nicki’s entire rebuttal track, since many find it to be a clever double-entendre. The two words that gave life to Nicki Minaj’s pen to join the lyrical feud, something that many claimed was a dying practice in modern hip-hop. These are the two words that sent the rap icon on a three-day X, formerly known as Twitter, spiral and gave life to the mediocre Bigfoot track has also elucidated a hard truth—that the Queen of Rap may have fallen off. 

Megan Thee Stallion, it seems, has won the first round of the rap feud. The Barbie will have to recover from the venom of HISS with a better response than what was produced.