As of this writing, Nicki Minaj has officially been going off about Megan Thee Stallion’s new song “Hiss” for about 89 hours straight. On Thursday, she began posting a nonstop barrage of increasingly unhinged tweets and today, released her own diss track, “Big Foot,” on which she joins the chorus of detractors alleging Megan lied about being shot by Tory Lanez.
Whew.
While Nicki has almost singlehandedly kept the promotion for “Big Foot” afloat, goading her Barbz into attacking critics, and lashing out at everyone from Jay-Z to TMZ, one might expect Megan to have something to say about “Big Foot” herself. After all, it was an outsized response for the one line on “Hiss” dedicated to Nicki, and she has her own upcoming project to promote. So…
Did Megan Thee Stallion Respond To Nicki Minaj’s ‘Big Foot?’
Although Megan has yet to return to Twitter, let alone drop a response track, over on Instagram, she did make one subtle reference to the beef. A screenshot of the Twitter account @chartdata proclaiming her the first female rapper to have multiple solo songs reach No. 1 on Apple Music’s global singles chart appeared earlier today (about three hours before this writing), suggesting she’s both heard “Big Foot” and seen Nicki’s as-yet ongoing rant, which has referenced Apple Music charts multiple times.
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“Reject” a song that just broke a record for highest debut in APPLE MUSIC HISTORY.
With none of these paid shenanigans. told y’all about TMZ long time ago.
As to whether Meg will deign to letter another bar go in Nikci’s direction or just continue to let her spiral out remains to be seen. But for what it’s worth, this has resulted in a lot of free promotion for one of them with a lot less effort than the other has been putting in. Like another female rapper once embroiled in beef with Minaj pointed out, beef has proven to be bad for business; maybe everyone involved could just stick to promoting their respective albums for a while.
Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Over the past decade and a half, Nicki Minaj has been known for a couple of things. Yes, she’s garnered a ton of attention for her colorful outfits, her outsized multiple personalities, and her shapeshifting rhyme styles. But we’re here for the other thing she’s notable for: Rap beef.
Almost as soon as she appeared on the scene, Nicki was either being pit against other rappers by fans (remember when they tried to make Jean Grae vs. Nicki a thing?) or by cirucumstance. In more recent years, she’s been the one picking all of her fights, but in any case, rap beef has become as much a part of her brand as the color pink and associations with Barbie.
We’re going to skip over a bunch because we don’t want to be here all week and because some were about as one-sided as it gets (Azealia Banks, etc.). Here’s a list of (almost) everyone Nicki Minaj has had beef with in her career.
Nicki Minaj vs. Cardi B
This is probably the biggest one, and the first of Nicki’s modern beefs, in which she appears to punch down more than up. We’ve broken this one down before but here’s the gist.
After Cardi B blew up in 2017 with “Bodak Yellow,” fans pushed hard to get the two rappers to either collab or diss each other. They did the former first, teaming up on Migos’ “Motorsport” late that year, but some scheduling conflicts and friction led to Nicki getting miffed at the new kid on the block and spending the next year sniping at Cardi for her perceived disrespect (this is a common thread in Nicki’s feuds, as you’ll see further down the page).
Unlike most of Nicki’s rivalries, this is the only one that culminated in violence, and since then, they’ve mostly waged war via proxies, like the United States and Russia in the ’80s.
While one hasn’t exploded into outright hostilities, it’s been every bit as convoluted as the Queens rapper’s other vendettas. After JT tweeted that she “just don’t like Nicki” back in 2017, Nicki declared she would never work with City Girls. However, after a behind-the-scenes conversation (maybe they swapped Burn Books), she called a reset on their relationship, later employing JT on the “Super Freaky Girl” remix, leading to JT changing her tune and going after Cardi (Cold War tactics!).
Of course, helping Nicki to irritate Cardi only seemed to buy the Miami stars a few months of leniency, as she very quickly got into a heated back-and-forth with the other half of the duo, Yung Miami, on Twitter in May last year.
Notable Tracks: “Super Freaky Girl” Queen Mix.
Nicki Minaj vs. Latto
In 2022, Nicki Minaj recorded an incendiary episode of Queen Radio that led to two of her currently raging grudges with Latto and Megan Thee Stallion. Apparently taking offense to Latto’s assertion that women are currently thriving in rap, Nicki made it a point to throw the younger rapper under the bus.
However, Latto refused to take her insults lying down and has to date clapped back in a couple of songs, “Put It On Da Floor” and “Back Outside,” while Nicki supposedly issued her own diss on “Fallin 4 U.” Since then, it appears she’s assigned this beef to Ice Spice, who has made a few veiled references to “Put It On Da Floor” in her new music.
Notable Tracks: “Put It On Da Floor,” “Fallin 4 U,” “Back Outside.”
Nicki Minaj vs. Lil Kim
Before she was taking offense to every new girl getting love and not giving her credit, Nicki was being accused of doing the same by Lil Kim. It’s a little hard to hash out who actually started this one (thanks, Google, your new algorithm is great ), but basically, it was a reversal of Nicki’s reasoning with all the new women in rap.
Possibly the reason we’re all here today, Nicki has been going off on Megan on Twitter for about 72 hours as of this writing, dropping the song “Big Foot” and claiming all kinds of conspiracy theories (she also maybe has to let go of the “#1 on Apple” defense because if we break that one down, it’s not going to go well for her). We published a full timeline of their beef earlier today, but here’s a summary:
Megan and Nicki went from being collaborators to enemies after Nicki felt Meg’s joke about abortion was a step too far. Meg also worked with Cardi, a violation of Nicki’s apparent “choose a side” policy, and went on to continue doing her own thing without paying sufficient homage to Nicki. While it could be argued that Meg’s less influenced by Nicki than anyone else out these days, it was enough to prompt Megan to clap back with “Hiss,” prompting Nicki’s current aggressive spiral.
Notable tracks: “Ruby Da Sleeze,” “Hiss,” “Big Foot”
Nicki Minaj vs. Remy Ma
The last of Nicki’s “punching up” beefs, this one similarly revolved around an older rapper feeling disrespected by Nicki apparently stepping over her to find success. Remy Ma had had a strong run in the mid-2000s with “Conceited” and “Lean Back,” but was incarcerated during Nicki’s early rise to fame. Feeling slighted by Nicki’s quick ascent (rap really is wrestling), she began “sneak dissing” the newer rapper before the two began trading salvos throughout 2017 (“Shether,” “No Frauds“.
Most recently, they appeared to have settled their dispute in November of last year, but with as mercurial as Nicki has proven in the past, there’s no telling how long that’ll be the case.
Notable Tracks: “No Frauds,” “Shether.”
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Wireless Festival, one of the biggest rap and hip-hop-focused festivals in the world, announced the first wave of artists on its 2024 lineup, including headliners 21 Savage, Doja Cat, and Nicki Minaj. Other big names on the bill are Future, Ice Spice, J Hus, Asake, Rema, and Tyla, indicating a continued expansion into Afrobeats and other diaspora genres, while more local artists are likely to be included in the second round of announcements.
The festival is returning to Finsbury Park in London for its 18th iteration after moving there in 2023 and holding part of the festival there in 2022. The festival will run from July 12 to July 14, and tickets will go on sale beginning this Wednesday (January 31) at 10 am GMT. You can find more information here.
More acts will be announced in the near future and you can see the full lineup below.
Wireless Festival 2024 Lineup:
Friday, July 12
Nicki Minaj
Future
Ice Spice
Sean Paul
Vanessa Bling
Veeze
Ragz Originale
DJ Target
Remi Burgz
Saturday, July 13
21 Savage
J Hus
Asake
Gunna
Sexyy Red
Fridayy
Skillibeng
Byron Messia
Shallipopi
Strandz
Kenny Allstar
Seani B
Sunday, July 14
Doja Cat
Rema
Tyla
Digga D
Uncle Waffles
Ruger
Teezo Touchdown
Nadia Jae
Snoochie Shy
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The biggest pop culture story of the weekend seemingly isn’t losing steam any time soon. Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion sparked the most direct and high-profile rap beef in years. It began last month when Nicki Minaj dropped her new album Pink Friday 2. The album included lyrical references to Tory Lanez that many online interpreted as sneak disses aimed at Megan. The situation boiled over into full on public beef when Meg released her new single “HISS” last week.
While she doesn’t mention Nicki’s name directly in the new song, fans were able to read between the lines. In particular, a line referencing Megan’s Law caught fire online. Nicki has taken quite a maximal approach to her response. She’s posted dozens and dozens of tweets including one spanning hundreds and hundreds of words assembled nearly incoherently. She also eventually released a diss track of her own called “Big Foot.” Unfortunately, the track was maligned by many online for its choppy flows, borrowed lyrics directly from Nicki’s tweets, and many of her claims seeming to be flat-out lies. Despite that, fans are still paying a LOT of attention to both songs.
As it turns out, there are no songs fans are listening to more right now than “HISS” and “Big Foot.” The two tracks occupy the top two spots on Apple Music right now with Megan coming in on top and Nicki trailing just behind. As Chart Data points out, it’s the first time two female rappers have occupied the top two slots with solo singles.
It’s no surprise that the pair are making history as their beef is already one of the most widely-discussed stories of 2024 so far. What do you think of “HISS” and “Big Foot” occupying the top two spots on Apple Music? Who do you think got the best of the beef between the pair so far? Let us know in the comment section below.
Lately, “Rap Twitter” has been in shambles over the genre’s latest high-profile feud between Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj. Today, Minaj released “Big Foot,” in which she disses her “Hot Girl Summer” collaborator after Megan deftly referenced her marital woes on “Hiss” last Friday (January 26). While fans fuss and fight over which of the two is on top (so far), here’s a timeline of how we got here.
Megan And Nicki Release “Hot Girl Summer” — August 2019
As Megan enjoyed her breakout year, she coined the phrase “Hot Girl Summer” to lay claim to the warmer months when her lively music would reign supreme. Naturally, when it came time to release a song of the same name — and its music video a month later — she recruited the woman who has arguably been the biggest influence on the modern wave of rap it-girls that have exploded onto the scene since 2017.
Unfortunately, it looks like love fest was short-lived, as things apparently soured between them rather quickly (you might notice that this is a common occurence with Nicki’s collaborators). A livestream in which the two women met for the first time could be the reason, as Nicki later cited Meg plying her with alcohol as one of her reasons for changing course on Thee Stallion.
Megan And Cardi B Release “WAP” — August 2020
So, a couple of things here: When Megan decided to accept Cardi’s invitation to collaborate on “WAP,” she surely must have known about Cardi and Nicki’s longstanding beef — and Nicki’s policy about picking a side and staying on it.
While Meg choosing to ignore Nicki’s dictate to shun Cardi almost certainly got under the elder rapper’s skin, the success of “WAP” in comparison to that of “Hot Girl Summer” might have been the factor that sent her over the edge. While “Hot Girl Summer debuted and peaked at No. 11 on the Hot 100, “WAP” not only started at No. 1 but it also spent four non-consecutive weeks there and became the hottest topic of discussion in that span, for good or ill.
Nicki Minaj Airs Out Megan On Queen Radio — September 2022
During Nicki’s September 11 episode of Queen Radio, she took the opportunity to declare a few of her latest rap beefs via a series of “blind items,” lashing out at Latto for praising rap’s newfound parity for women and insinuating that Megan had encouraged her to get an abortion while plying her with liquor during her “drive the boat” era.
Although Megan herself was skeptical that Minaj accused her of anything (bless her; she always looks for context before believing the tweets, which is a good policy for all of us, honestly), she was eventually forced to accept that Nicki had pulled a Nicki and decided her friend was actually her enemy. She’s basically the Joseph Stalin of the rap world.
Nicki Releases “Red Ruby Da Sleeze” Taking Shots At Megan — March 2023
When Nicki returned to the spotlight in early 2023 to release her single “Red Ruby Da Sleeze,” sharp-eared fans quickly noted a line that appeared to be a shot at Megan Thee Stallion. “700 on them horses when we fixing to leave / But I’on f*ck with horses since Christopher Reeves,” she raps, seemingly alluding to Meg’s rap name, which is slang for for “tall, thick woman.”
She also seemingly cited Meg’s recent brand deal with a certain snack brand, sniping, “Dorito b*tches / Mad that they nachos (not chose).” The previous year, Meg had appeared in a Super Bowl ad for the flavored tortilla chips, making “Red Ruby” a pretty clear shot across her bow.
Megan Releases “Hiss” — January 2024
They say revenge is a dish best served cold and nearly a year passed before Megan got hers. In the meantime, she cleared her calendar, freeing herself of her label deal, and waiting for the outcome of the assault trial against Tory Lanez for shooting her in the foot. With favorable outcomes in both cases, she finally turned her attention back to rap beef, taking inspiration from a cold-blooded predactor on “Hiss.”
In addition to smacking down a bunch of her biggest detractors, she aimed a haymaker at Minaj, rapping, “These hoes don’t be mad at Megan, these hoes mad at Megan’s Law.” The line refers to a mandate requiring sex offenders to register with local governments and preventing them from living near schools — a law that applies to Nicki’s husband, Kenneth Petty. Nicki and Petty have been locked into a legal battle with his alleged victim over claims they’ve been harassing her to retract her 1995 testimony so he can get off the sex offenders registry.
Nicki Strikes Back With “Big Foot” — January 2024
All of which brings us to today. After Nicki spent the three days since the release of “Hiss” going off on Twitter — you can see a sampling of her tweets below — she responded with a diss track of her own, “Big Foot.” Lashing out with abandon, she repeats some of the most common complaints about Megan’s shooting ( “F*ck you get shot with no scar?”), the younger rapper’s label deal (“‘Fore I hit Carl and buy your catalogue”), and sales (“still ain’t topped ‘Red Ruby’”). This won’t be the end of the drama; all anyone can say for certain is, if you’re already tired of seeing Nicki and Meg on your timeline, it might be time to log out for a good long while.
The bitch ain’t get streamed in 84 years. Her team don’t want me to drop b/c they know those numbers gon embarrass her lying lypo ass. and SHE know I got proof of what SHE DID! And after how she allowed HER BEST GIRL FRIEND TO BE BULLIED, ATTACKED & RIPPED TO SHREDS WHILE KELSEY… https://t.co/1pwRVedHPz
What a disgusting serpant!!!!! Y’all post pardi song under this. They paid to make it disappear . LET’S GOOOOOO lying on your dead mother is insane too. But PARDI said it. #ItWasntMehttps://t.co/b8Wk9oqJAS
Doechii unfollowed Nicki Doechii recently went on tour with doja Doja declined Nicki feature request Jay Z recently praised doja & PAID blogs to post the praise Meg dissed Nicki Meg management is roc nation/ Jay z
Nicki Minaj just released “Big Foot,” a new diss track that goes after Megan Thee Stallion and doesn’t pull a single punch. Minaj really went all out, addressing a lot of personal and sensitive things about Meg.
What Did Nicki Minaj Say About Megan Thee Stallion On “Big Foot?”
Minaj said a lot about Megan on “Big Foot.” So, let’s break it down topic-by-topic (all lyrics via Genius).
Nicki Minaj On Megan Thee Stallion Getting Shot By Tory Lanez
“Bad b*tch, she like six foot (Ooh), I call her Big Foot (Brr)
The b*tch fell off, I said, ‘Get up on your good foot.’”
“Like a body builder, I keep raisin’ the bar
F*ck you get shot with no scar? (Brr).”
“Now listen up, Big Foot
You know I got a lotta tea
I went easy on you
Um (Glass fragment foot ass, b*tch).”
Nicki Minaj On Megan Thee Stallion’s Late Mother
“How you f*ck your mother man when she die?
How you go on Gayle King and can’t cry?
Chile, bye
Big foot, but you still a small fry
Swearin’ on your dead mother when you lie (Ay, yo).”
“‘Cause she was lyin’ on your dead mama (Ooh), on-on your dead mama (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
Lyin’ on your dead mama (Ooh-ooh), on-on your dead mama
Lyin’ on your dead mama (Ooh-ooh), on-on your dead mama
Lyin’ on your, lyin’, lyin’, lyin’ on your dead mama (Brr, ooh).”
Nicki Minaj On Megan Thee Stallion’s Dispute With Carl Crawford And 1501 Certified Entertainment
“B*tch, you better stop that dialogue (28 sh*t)
‘Fore I hit Carl and buy your catalogue
(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha) Sigh.”
Nicki Minaj On Megan Thee Stallion’s Rapping Abilities
“Your flow is such a bore
Drinkin’ a bottle of Henny through a straw.”
“Uh, still ain’t topped ‘Red Ruby’ (No, no, mm-mm)
Tryna steal the sauce, I said, ‘Get up out my cook book’ (Brr).”
“They got you all them Grammy’s, but your flow’s still a no.”
Nicki Minaj On Future Megan Thee Stallion Diss Tracks
“I don’t think you want the next installment of this song
I know it’s the most attention you’ve ever gotten.”
“Now, since you think it’s funny to speak about people’s families
We’ll all join in
We’ll all play the reindeer games
Soon as your new nose heals
And soon as your…
Well, let’s leave that for the second installment.”
Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Like most rap fans out there, Charlamagne The God was really looking forward to Nicki Miinaj’s new diss track against Megan Thee Stallion, “Big Foot.” However, taking to The Breakfast Club on Friday morning (January 29), he wasn’t really feeling it, lamenting a lack of fresh bars and unnecessary shots against the Houston MC. “This ain’t it, Nicki. Okay? I don’t know who Nicki got around her, but there is absolutely no reason that should’ve left the studio,” the entrepreneur began. “I’m glad Nicki decided to finally rap and not just tweet, but no. That ain’t it.
“‘Cause Megan put out [her] song Thursday night at midnight, right?” Charlamagne Tha God continued about Nicki Minaj. “For the next 72 hours, all weekend, Nicki just has been talking about her on social media. And a lot of the bars that may have made me been like, ‘Oh, shoot,’ she already tweeted about! You know, she tweeted the ‘Megan’s Law, Megan raw’ line on Twitter. Slick line, but once I heard it in the song, already saw it on social media. So it ain’t hit the same.
“The ‘Big foot’ line on IG Live didn’t hit the same, because I heard it on IG Live,” Charlamagne added of Nicki Minaj’s diss track. “And I know we say all is fair in love and rap battles, but man, hearing Nicki keep talking about Megan’s deceased mother, that ain’t it, man. I was born in 1978. If you had asked me this question 20 years ago, I would’ve probably said, ‘Nah! All is fair and love and hip-hop!’
“And I still kind of feel like that to a certain extent,” he concluded. “[Biggie and Tupac] are terrible examples. Hov apologized, said he went too far, and I’m sure Nas looks back on ‘Ether’ sometimes like, ‘Okay, I shouldn’t have said that.’ We’re approaching this from a grown level. I just don’t see the need to bring in somebody’s deceased mother. Like I said, I can’t say it’s not fair. I’m just speaking from a human perspective. From a human level, I don’t agree with that.” For more news and the latest updates on Nicki Minaj and Charlamagne Tha God, come back to HNHH.
The Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion beef are continuing to reach new heights. Everyone from fans to rappers, and social media pundits are weighing on “Big Foot.” It is seemingly trending everywhere, especially on Twitter (X). For the most part, the music community is not feeling the track because they feel it was “rushed” and career-ruining. Nicki felt the need to drop the diss as soon as possible after Megan Thee Stallion put out “HISS,” hence why some have this belief.
In addition, like Ebro, some have the opinion that is all for marketing and is just a way to get the fans engaged. Chicago MC Lupe Fiasco is certainly one of those people enjoying all of this unfolding from the sidelines. If you have heard Nicki’s lyrical attack, you would know that there were a few other rappers who received some not-so-subliminal namedrops. Lupe is one of the lucky few.
In the song, Nicki refers to Megan’s career as a total mess. One synonym for the word “mess” is “fiasco” and this is how she decided to use it. “They got you all them Grammy’s, but your flow’s still a no / What a Fiasco, Lupe.” Subsequently, others like Future, G-Eazy, Moneybagg Yo, and of course, Pardison Fontaine and Tory Lanez were included in the mix. Lupe reacted to this shout-out on Twitter by using the iconic Leonardo DiCaprio meme from his The Wolf of Wall Street film. More is still to come on this Nicki and Megan beef, so be sure to stick around.
What are your thoughts on Lupe Fiasco’s reaction to the name drop in Nicki Minaj’s new Megan Thee Stallion diss track “Big Foot?” Do you agree with the masses that the song is bad? Who is winning the beef right now in your opinion? Where do you rank “Big Foot” in terms of diss songs? We would like to hear what you have to say about all of this. With that in mind, be sure to leave all of your hottest takes in the comments section below. Additionally, always keep it locked in with HNHH for all of the latest news surrounding Lupe Fiasco, Nicki Minaj, and Megan Thee Stallion. Finally, stay with us for everything else going on around the music and pop culture world.
On just the song’s introduction, Minaj addresses Megan’s contract dispute with Carl Crawford and 1501 Certified Entertainment, the death of Megan’s mother, and Megan’s Gayle King interview in which she cried but didn’t appear to shed actual tears. According to Genius, those lyrics are:
“Your flow is such a bore
Drinkin’ a bottle of Henny through a straw
B*tch, you better stop that dialogue (28 sh*t)
‘Fore I hit Carl and buy your catalogue
(Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha) Sigh
How you f*ck your mother man when she die?
How you go on Gayle King and can’t cry?
Chile, bye
Big foot, but you still a small fry
Swearin’ on your dead mother when you lie (Ay, yo).”
Elsewhere, Minaj accuses Megan of lying about getting shot by Tory Lanez (“F*ck you get shot with no scar?), criticizes her rapping abilities (“They got you all them Grammys, but your flow’s still a no”), and claims Megan copies her (“Tryna steal the sauce, I said, ‘Get up out my cook book’”).
Listen to “Big Foot” above.
Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
“After the 1st one drop, if day pussy ass hoe so much as BREATHE wrong ima empty da clip,” Minaj tweeted. “If that pussy ass hoe deny 1THING I say, I’m posting every fkn receipt known to man. 5. Yes you heard me! Did 5 extra songs. we’ve been waiting on u HO.”
told y’all about TMZ long time ago.
lying on your dead mother is insane too. But PARDI said it. 
