After their 2019 collaboration "
Hot Girl Summer", Nicki Minaj and
Megan Thee Stallion's relationship soured. Minaj said that Megan tried to persuade her to consume alcohol while she was trying to conceive a child and told her she can abort if she got pregnant. Megan has since denied such claims. On January 26, 2024, Megan released the single "
Hiss" in which she rapped the line, "These hoes don't be mad at Megan/These hoes mad at
Megan's Law", a reference to the legal requirement that sex offenders appear on a
public registry. The line was believed to be aimed at Minaj for her husband being registered as a sex offender. Minutes after the release of "Hiss", Minaj took to
Instagram Live to preview her response track, titled "Big Foot". Minaj said on January 28 that the track had been ready for two days and she waited for producer Lil Juju "to clear that beat that I've had for 6 years", adding that, without hearing her song, Megan and her team tried to prevent the producer, who had a close relationship with Megan, from approving the beat. On choosing to respond to Megan's song, Minaj tweeted, "Wasn't gon say anything. But remember how everyone kept my name in their mouth and how I said the next person mention my family gon regret it". Minaj said that the song was not a "diss track" but a "response track". Minaj also released an a cappella version so that producers can make their own beat to the track. In the song, Minaj referenced, among other things, Megan's
rap flow, the
2020 shooting of Megan by
Tory Lanez, Megan's contract dispute with her former record label, Megan's relationship with her ex-boyfriend and collaborator
Pardison Fontaine, Megan's alleged behavior, and called Megan a liar. Minaj posted that she had four other tracks she would release if Megan responded to what she said. She also addressed Desiree Perez, CEO of
Jay-Z's
Roc Nation, which manages Megan, writing: "so many ppl were blind sighted & hurt by her. Allegedly. She's willing to go broke to try to replace me…? [...] Spending soooooooo much money. But she's the lil broke independent artist. Desiree, you gotta let it go". She further commented about their major financial backing of Megan and a discrepancy in her success: "if your last 5-10 releases flopped… If the internet checks don't clear outside in real life. If all the paid blogs & paid tweets = flop after flop after FLOP album ... Another manipulation so she can kick ppl to the curb after they helped her. Paid media all the time. Fraudulent awards ... Pathological & manipulative liar." In a live discussion with
Joe Budden on
Twitter Spaces, Minaj said that Megan's producer "bragged" about not clearing the beat for her track, Roc Nation employs online
bots, and that the root of the rapper beef is from the companies in charge, stating: "this is a dialogue between me, the machine and a bunch of different machines having to come together constantly using different people. When one fails, let's go somewhere else and try. It never works but that's the point that I wanted the world to see and that it's going to be sympathy again and it's going to be nonsense again." Megan said on her Stationhead channel in reply to Minaj's comments: "Don't make me call Roc Nation", and added that if "Hiss" went number one she "might put the straw back in the fifth of Hennessy", referencing Minaj's alcohol line in "Big Foot". ==Reception==