Megan Thee Stallion and Nicki Minaj once heralded “Hot Girl Summer,” but things have cooled between them.

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The latest escalation in their feud happened on Friday, January 26, shortly after Megan, 28, dropped “Hiss,” her latest snake-themed single. In the first verse, she raps, “These hoes don’t be mad at Megan / These hoes mad at Megan’s Law.”

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Megan’s Law was enacted by the United States government in the ‘90s and requires law enforcement authorities to make information regarding registered sex offenders available to the public. The lyric was quickly interpreted as a not-so-subtle dig at Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, who is a registered sex offender. (Petty, 45, was convicted of first-degree attempted rape in 1995, and in 2021, he pleaded guilty for failing to register as a sex offender with the state of California after moving there from New York.)

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Shortly after “Hiss” dropped, Minaj, 41, went on Instagram Live to “have a little fun.” She played a snippet of an unreleased song, in which she raps, “Bad bitch she like 6 foot / I call her big foot / The bitch fell off / I said get up on your good foot.”