Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion have quite the beef going on at the moment taking the internet by storm.
The once-friendly collaborators amped up the feud this year when Megan dropped the track “Hiss” which many claim to be a direct dig at Nicki Minaj and husband Kenneth Petty. Though Stallion never actually confirmed who it was about, Minaj took big aim at her former friend and channeled her hatred into the diss track “Big Foot.”
2019: ‘Hot Girl Summer’ with Nicki Minaj
Nicki Minaj and Megan began as friends and collaborated on the 2019 smash song “Hot Girl Summer.” The song and video helped align and cement Megan into mainstream rap. She even gave Minaj a shoutout during an Instagram Live.
“Stop playing with Nicki Minaj like she ain’t the motherf–king GOAT,” said Megan with Minaj by her side. “Don’t ever ask me s–t: don’t ever question me. You know the f–king vibes, quit playing with us.”
2020: Megan Collabs with Cardi B for ‘WAP’
Many believe that once this collab came out in 2020, Minaj and Stallion’s relationship went sour. The blockbuster hit featuring Megan helped launch the rapper even more into stardom.
Cardi and Megan later reunited on the single “Bongos.”
2022: Megan Allegedly Encourages Nicki Minaj to Have an Abortion
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In an episode, of “Queen Radio,” Minaj sheds light on a rumor going on.
“Imagine telling someone you didn’t want a drink because you were, at the time, possibly pregnant [or] because you were actively trying to have a baby,” Minaj said. “Imagine that person saying, ‘Oh, girl, you can go to the clinic.’”
Minaj didn’t mention Megan by name, but many Barbz assumed the person in question was her.
When one fan told Megan that Minaj accused her “of encouraging abortion [and] child endangerment with alcohol,” Megan responded, “LIE.”
In 2024, Minaj’s fans, known as the Barbz, resurfaced a video of Minaj and Megan on the 2019 “Hot Girl Summer” music video shoot. In the clip, Megan made a slight joke that could have been a remark about handling an unplanned and unwanted pregnancy, but the words “abortion” and “clinic” were not spoken.
One fan claimed the video was proof of Megan “trying to encourage [Minaj] to drink” while pregnant. Minaj then reposted the video via her X account and called Megan “a disgusting serpent.” During her Instagram Live sessions after “Hiss,” Minaj revisited the subject, claiming Megan kept hounding her about drinking.
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Minaj also claimed that this unnamed person was trying to use her for clout. “Imagine posting photos that you’re pregnant and the person doesn’t even ‘like’ it or say congratulations,” she said on the aforementioned “Queen Radio” episode. “But then, when you post that Beyoncé sent you flowers congratulating you, the person then tries to attempt to send you flowers thinking that, ‘Oh, I could use this opportunity as I use everyone else. She’ll post that I sent her flowers.’”
2023: Nicki Throws Shade at Megan in ‘Red Ruby Da Sleeze’
In 2023, Minaj dropped “Ruby Red da Sleeze,” which contained a line many listeners interpreted as being about Megan.
“Seven-hundred on ’em horses / When we fixin’ to leave / But I don’t f–k with horses / Since Christopher Reeves,” rapped Minaj. Many fans assumed the “horses” line was a reference to Megan’s stage name.
2024: Megan Drops “Hiss”
Megan and Nicki Minaj had their feud amplify more than ever when the feud turned explosive after the release of “Hiss.”
Megan’s single took shots at rivals from Drake to Tory Lanez and Nicki Minaj.
“These hoes don’t be mad at Megan / These hoes mad at Megan’s Law,” she rapped, referencing the 1994 federal law that makes information about registered sex offenders available to the public.
In 2019, Minaj married Petty, who was convicted of attempted rape in the first degree in 1995. He served four years in prison and is now a registered sex offender. In July 2022, Petty was sentenced to a year of home confinement for failing to register as a sex offender with the state of California after he and Minaj moved there in 2021.
Back in 2020, Nicki’s brother Jelani Maraj was also sentenced 25 years to life in prison after he was convicted of predatory sexual assault against a child and endangering the welfare of a child.
Though Megan didn’t mention Minaj or Petty by name in “Hiss,” Minaj took the “Megan’s Law” line as a personal insult.
2024: Nicki Takes Aim with “Big Foot”
Following the release of “Hiss,” Minaj went off via X, having what some onlookers described as a multi-day, spiraling “meltdown.”
Shortly after the song hits streaming services, Minaj appears on Instagram Live and trashes Megan. She claims the star ‘can’t rap on the beat’ and even teased the potential diss-track response to “Hiss.”
Seemingly in response to Minaj’s social media rants, Megan posted a photo of herself laughing via her Instagram Story.
Minaj continued slamming Megan days after the release of “Hiss,” calling Megan’s past albums “flops,” dismissing her as a “pathological [and] manipulative liar,” claiming Megan uses “ghostwriters” and saying Megan “[claims] she went to college but can’t read her [record] contract.”
Minaj also claimed that Megan hooked up with her late mother’s boyfriend. (Megan’s mom, Holly Thomas, died of brain cancer in 2019). “Y’all wanna bring up family members???!! And lying on your dead mother?!?!! Lied to Gayle [King]. Lied on & F–KED your best friend man?!!!!! Told me to drink & go to the clinic if I was pregnant. All b/c I wouldn’t let your funky butt pour liquor down my throat?” Minaj wrote. “B!ch think she a bully cuz she gets a Roc Nation brunch every year.”
When “Big Foot” dropped on January 29 just three days after “Hiss.” the song charted high on Apple Music.
On the track, Minaj accused Megan of sleeping around, lying about getting liposuction and lying about getting shot by Lanez.
However, Minaj denied that “Big Foot” was a “diss track.” After @PopBase reposted the single’s art via X, Minaj replied, “Who tf said ‘diss track’?????? don’t play tonight. Fix your tweet.”
