Megan Thee Stallion has no downside along with her hip-hop friends making diss tracks about her — in reality, she believes it means she’s doing one thing proper.
In a brand new cowl story for Billboard, the “Savage” rapper, 29, opened up about being the topic of lyrics in songs by artists like Nicki Minaj, Drake and Eminem.
“I’m going to maintain doing what I’m doing. If individuals really feel like I’m any individual to purpose at, then I have to be fairly excessive up in the event you’re reaching up at me. I have to be some sort of competitors,” she mentioned. “That makes me really feel good. That makes me really feel like I might rap as a result of if I wasn’t the s—, y’all wouldn’t be apprehensive about me.”
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Megan was first focused by Drake in 2022 on the tune “Circo Loco,” which appeared to make mild of a 2020 incident through which rapper Tory Lanez shot Megan within the foot and injured her (Lanez was sentenced final yr to 10 years in jail.)
Eminem’s latest monitor “Houdini” additionally referenced Megan and the taking pictures, as did Minaj’s tune “FTCU,” which got here out final yr (“Keep in your Tory Lanez, bitch, I’m not Iggy,” Minaj raps).
In response to Minaj, Megan (née Megan Pete) responded with a tune of her personal referred to as “Hiss,” through which she rapped, “These hoes don’t be mad at Megan / These hoes mad at Megan’s Legislation.” (Megan’s Legislation is a federal regulation that gives the general public with info on registered intercourse offenders; Minaj’s husband Kenneth Petty is a registered intercourse offender who was convicted of first-degree tried rape of a 16-year-old in 1995.) Days later, Minaj launched one other monitor referred to as “Large Foot,” which appeared to reply on to Megan’s “Megan’s Legislation” dig.
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When requested by Billboard if she and Minaj, 41, would possibly sometime reconcile, Megan mentioned she wasn’t even positive why that they had beef within the first place.
“I nonetheless to at the present time don’t know what the issue is,” she mentioned. “I don’t even know what may very well be reconciled as a result of I, to at the present time, don’t know what the issue is.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Megan mentioned that she used to “actually care how I made lots of people really feel, earlier than how they made me really feel” — however that she’s now engaged on setting boundaries.
“Every thing was about making different individuals smile and different individuals joyful. Now I’m in an area the place I wish to be joyful,” the Grammy-winning star mentioned. “I’m not going to remove [from] being joyful so I can put different individuals’s life and happiness as a precedence over mine.”
