Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj: Conflict?
With two windy, acid-dipped tunes{Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj} meant to attack each other where it hurts, the two rappers escalated their feud.
What took up more social media oxygen this weekend was the very public drawing of battle lines between two titans of contemporary hip-hop, more so than Taylor Swift’s appearance in the Super Bowl.
Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion released disparaging songs within a day that were directed in different directions and at each other. You should know the following regarding “Hiss,” “Big Foot,” and the events that preceded the current hip-hop rivalry.
Context
Megan Thee Stallion dropped “Hiss,” a three-minute diss tune that starts off hot and gets hotter, at midnight on Friday. The rapper is shown in a belligerent mood in this song, which is the second single from her upcoming third studio album.
She rants about how the news media utilizes her name “for likes and views” and how she is generally unrivaled. She opens with a fierce, no-holds-barred statement, “Every time I get mentioned, my critics get 24 hours of attention.”
However, it was a sentence that appeared in the song slightly under a minute that set off hostilities that lasted for four days and counting. She refers to her opponents as “mad at Megan’s Law,” a 1996 law that mandates the registration and public identification of sex offenders guilty of crimes.
Many saw the allusion as a jab at Nicki Minaj’s spouse, Kenneth Petty, who was detained in 2020 for neglecting to register as a California sex offender. (Mr. Petty entered a guilty plea to trying to rape a teenage girl in Queens.)
Ms. Minaj appeared to take the lines personally even though she wasn’t specifically referenced. She responded with the release of her own song, “Big Foot,” on Monday. In it, she repeatedly alludes to Megan Thee Stallion, notably her assault in 2020 at the hands of rapper Tory Lanez, who shot her in the foot and is currently serving a 10-year jail sentence.
Megan Thee Stallion appeared to be unhappy in the photograph that Ms. Minaj used to tease the song on X prior to its release.
So who instigated ?
Although the rappers’ feud seems to have started because of a song by Megan Thee Stallion, it has been building for years. Megan Thee Stallion appeared on Cardi B’s “WAP” in 2020, which became an instant No. 1 smash on the Billboard Hot 100 songs list. Given Ms. Minaj’s well-known and ongoing problems with Cardi B—she became physical at a 2018 New York Fashion Week party—that may have marked the end of their amicable relationship with Megan Thee Stallion.
Public opinion?
It’s reasonable to assume that Ms. Minaj’s most devoted supporters, or “Barbz,” are still firmly in her corner. But after the passing of Megan Thee Stallion’s mother in 2019, even some ardent fans of Ms. Minaj would have been turned off by a protracted riff in “Big Foot” about a “dead momma.”
Since the song’s release, a lot of people have expressed their surprise—if not outright disappointment—in the rapper on social media. Ms. Minaj is well-known for her outspoken conflicts with Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, and Remy Ma.
Info. about Nicki Minaj:
Minaj is well-known for her lively and “unique” rapping style. Her rapping is unique in that it’s fast-paced and incorporates accents and alter egos, mostly British cockney. She frequently uses word play, punchlines, metaphors, and both singing and rapping in her songs. Her words are combined with the voices of her alter personas, either softly spoken (Harajuku Barbie) or with British accents (Roman Zolanski). Regarding Minaj’s rapping style, Ice-T stated, “[Minaj] does her thing.” She approaches things in a unique way. Her voice delivery is poor. Because of the way she directs her voice, she kind of reminds me of a female Busta Rhymes.”
Minaj was described as “a sparkling rapper with a gift for comic accents and unexpected turns of phrase” by Jon Caramanica of The New York Times. She exudes exaggeration in every way—her sound, demeanor, and appearance.
She also evolves quickly, giving up old habits as easily as embracing new ones.””What people don’t know is that before I was doing that craziness I was doing me, I was just doing regular sounding rap that anyone could hear and identify with,” claimed Minaj, despite the fact that many critics have referred to her style as bubblegum rap.
However, since it attracted everyone’s attention, after I started doing all that odd stuff, I’m not upset about it.” Minaj was listed among the “most unique flows from rappers over the last five years” by Robby Seabrook III of XXL.
claiming that she “has cemented her position as a front-runner for her lively flows, encouraging many other female hip-hop artists to experiment with their voices.” Often in the same song, she shifts from campy to aggressive, enthusiastic to strange.”
Info. about Megan Thee Stallion:
Megan Thee Stallion gained notoriety for showcasing her sexuality in her live performances, music videos, and lyrics. “It’s not just about being sexy, it’s about being confident and me being confident in my sexuality,” she said in a Pitchfork interview.
“I don’t feel like we ever really had a female rapper come from Houston or Texas and shut shit down,” she said to Rolling Stone of her Texas rap beginnings. That’s my perspective, then. She is considered a sex symbol by many people.
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