Megan Thee Stallion’s new single “Hiss” features scathing lyrics that have her fans excited. Murder victim Megan Kanka's father was not among them.
New Jersey resident Richard Kanka is reportedly “furious” about the rapper's latest song, which mentions Megan's Law, a 1996 federal law that requires public disclosure of convicted and registered sex offenders. The law is named after his 7-year-old daughter, who was raped and murdered in 1994 by a twice-convicted sex offender who had moved into her New Jersey neighborhood.
The “Hiss” lyrics in question: “These h… don't be mad at Megan, these h… mad at Megan's Law.”
TMZ reported Tuesday that Kanka was not a fan of the “Hot Girl Summer” rapper “dragging his late daughter’s name” into his explicit track. Kanka called Megan Thee Stallion's reference “highly offensive because of the pain her daughter and her family were feeling,” according to the website.
Kanka did not immediately respond to The Times' request for comment on Tuesday.
After “Hiss” was released last week, rap fans speculated that the 28-year-old Grammy winner's lyrics were directed at fellow rapper Nicki Minaj. The “Pink Friday” artist, 41, is married to Kenneth Petty, who in 1995 was convicted in New York for the attempted rape of a 16-year-old girl.
Petty served a four-year prison sentence for that conviction and must register as a sex offender wherever he lives. But in 2022 he failed to register in California as a sex offender and was sentenced to house arrest. His sentence was extended in September 2023 after he threatened rapper Offset on social media.
“Hiss” didn't directly name Minaj, Megan Thee Stallion's “Hot Girl Summer” collaborator, or the core of their alleged feud, but it appears the latter took the Megan's Law lyrics personally. Hours after the song dropped on Friday, Minaj tweeted a graphic line that describes what your rival would supposedly do for a “free pace.”
On Friday, Minaj released “Big Foot,” an expletive-laden response to “Hiss.” In responding to Megan Thee Stallion, Minaj turned to low-hanging fruit, including Megan's romantic relationships, the death of her mother in 2019, the shooting of Tory Lanez in 2020, and the media attention surrounding that very public trial. .
“How you go with Gayle King and you can't cry,” Minaj raps.
Megan Thee Stallion has yet to publicly comment on Minaj or “Big Foot” tweets. But on Tuesday, she announced that she is preparing a new album and will go on tour later this year. Before “Hiss,” her last single was “Cobra,” released in 2023.
“Oh, we're going to have the tour this year, the Hot Girl Summer Tour will be in the summer of 2024,” she said. announced on “Good Morning America”.” “I feel like I've never been able to be outside doing my thing during the summer since 2019. This will be the first time I've released an album in time for the summer.”
She added: “I want to give the Hotties the Megan Thee Stallion experience.”
Minaj will also tour this year and bring her latest album, “Pink Friday 2,” to her fans around the world starting in March. She'll be making a stop in Los Angeles as she headlines Rolling Loud California on March 15.
