A.D. Amorosi For better and worse, the career of Houston rapper Megan Thee Stallion — who is rapidly becoming the breakout star of this problematic year — can be divided into two roughly concurrent eras: pre-“WAP” and post-“WAP,” pre-Lanez and post-Lanez.
The former addresses her NSFW summer smash single with Cardi B; the latter the July incident in which rapper Tory Lanez allegedly shot Megan in the feet after an argument.
Megan addresses the incident (without mentioning Lanez by name) in the scathing diss track that opens the album, “Shots Fired,” which samples Notorious B.I.G.’s “Who Shot Ya?” and degrades the object of her disdain in an impressive variety of ways.
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