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Megan Thee Stallion made headlines earlier this year after she was shot in both feet in an incident police later charged Toronto rapper Tory Lanez with. She’s discussed the night in several recent interviews, but on her new album, Good News, the Houston rapper makes her true feelings clear. She opens the project with “Shots Fired,” a song that immediately delves into the night in question and finds her excoriating Tory for nearly three minutes over a sample of The Notorious B.I.G.’s famous 1995 track “Who Shot Ya?”
Without ever saying his name, Megan kicks off the song with immediate references at Tory, opening up about her decision to speak out about the shooting on Tory’s birthday:
Imagine n-ggas lyin' ‘bout shootin’ a real b-tch
Just to save face for rapper n-ggas you chill with
Imagine me givin' a f-ck it was your f-ckin' birthday
You in your feelings, I just thought it was another Thursday
In the following lines, Meg denies being interested in Tory sexually and reiterates her recent claim that he tried to buy her silence. She also pushes back against claims he made on his DAYSTAR album that she was lying about being shot due to the nature of her injuries:
You shot a 5'10" b-tch with a .22
Talkin' ‘bout bones and tendons like them bullets wasn’t pellets
A p-ssy n-gga with a p-ssy gun in his feelings
She finishes off the verse by referencing the Breonna Taylor case, drawing parallels between the shooting death of the Kentucky medical worker at the hands of Louisville police and her own shooting:
Now here we are, 2020, eight months later
And we still ain’t got no f-ckin' justice for Breonna Taylor
Any n-gga on that n-gga’s side is a clout chaser
A b-tch who he f-ckin' or a ho that he payin', uh
The song’s second verse finds her addressing detractors who sided with Tory and denying that she cooperated with police to get Tory charged:
Ooh sh-t, it’s a lotta weak n-ggas in this b-tch
They confused
They hate me, but watch my videos beatin' they d-ck
Who a snitch? I ain’t never went to the police with no names
The entire song is set over a sample of “Who Shot Ya?” the 1995 Notorious B.I.G. song widely interpreted to be about 2Pac’s November 1994 shooting at Quad Studios in Manhattan. The song fueled one of hip-hop’s most infamous beefs that only ended once both 2Pac was killed in 1996, and Biggie was killed the year after.
Listen to the song above and read all the lyrics to Megan Thee Stallion’s “Shots Fired” on Genius now.
