Nicki Minaj & Megan Thee Stallion's feud explained

Megan’s Law is a federal law in the U.S. that requires information about registered sex offenders to be made public, initially created in response to the murder of a young girl, Megan Kanka, by a neighbor who had previously been convicted of sexually assaulting children.

Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, is a registered sex offender, and her brother, Jelani Maraj, is currently serving 25 years to life for raping his stepdaughter.

It's possible the lyric is about Minaj. It’s also possible it’s about someone or something else entirely. But Minaj and her Barbs seemed to jump to the conclusion that this was a diss aimed at her and her family, and responded by lashing out at Megan.

Not long after “Hiss,” Minaj dropped her own track clearly aimed at Megan, called “Big Foot.”

The rap reference’s Megan’s mother, who died in 2019, insinuates she uses ghostwriters, and seems to be accusing her of lying about getting shot in the foot (a crime for which Tory Lanez is currently serving ten years in jail), among other things.

Barbs ate it up, and Minaj is busy retweeting all the love, but the overall sentiment on Twitter, at least, doesn't seem to be in her favor.

For her part, Megan hasn’t responded directly, although she did have this much to say on The Breakfast Club:

“Every time one of these motherfuckers uses Megan Thee Stallion name, they get 24 hours of attention. I’m saying, a hit dog gon’ holler. That’s it. Whoever feel it, feel it.”