Megan Thee Stallion Seemingly Closes The Book On The Tory Lanez Saga On 'Shots Fired'

Megan Thee Stallion has proposed the last word.


Her debut album, Good News, is here, a week soon after she reported it with a gregarious message ("Through this rough ass year we've all been having I felt like we might all use a lil bit of good news."), And with it comes a slew of visitor features from folks like DaBaby, City Females, SZA, and more. Although the assignments opener, "Shots Fired," finds Meg alone, seemingly closing the book on the largest news story connected with her all year: her alleged shooting at the hands of Tory Lanez.


"Imagine n----s lying about shooting a real bitch / Just to save face for rapper n----s you chill with," she starts her first on the album opener, a blisteringly direct track that notably samples The Notorious B.I.G.'S seminal (and controversial) 1995 hit, "Who Shot Ya?" Though she never calls out Lanez by name, she makes references to the event that abandoned her hospitalized with wounds in her feet in July, and for which Lanez has since been charged with felony assault. (This week, he pleaded not guilty.)


In the time since the incident, Meg named Lanez because the shooter, wrote a New York Times op-ed urging for the protection of Black females — "Black ladies are still constantly disrespected and didn't think about in so several areas of life." — And this week, even claimed Lanez offered her hush money subsequently. Nevertheless the placement of "Shots Fired" at the front of Good News suggests these will be Meg's final words on the matter.


She raps about not telling the police immediately out of fear of escalating the scenario, in the middle of the time of mass protests against police brutality this summer ("And if it weren't for me, same week, you would have been indicted") and mentions the lack of justice for Breonna Taylor in the time since. And she takes a number of pokes at her assailant — again, not by name — as well as the people who called her a snitch in the aftermath.

You shot a 5'10" bitch with a .22

Talking 'bout bones and tendons like them bullets wasn't pellets

A pussy n---a with a pussy gun in his feelings

OK, he in the backseat and he keep callin' me a bitch (He a bitch)

We all know the shit I could've came back with (Lil'-ass n---a)

He talking 'bout his followers, dollars, and goofy shit

I instructed him, "You're not poppin', you just on the remix" (What's poppin'?)

Meg's already on to the next blockbuster. Her supersonic video for "Body" — featuring cameos from Taraji P. Henson, Blac Chyna, and more — dropped on the eve of Good News's release and has already racked up nearly 1.6 million views as of this writing. Check that out above, right after you spend some time with "Shots Fired."