Azealia Banks claims Megan Thee Stallion will be a “shit stain” on Jay-Z
Hip-hop’s resident troll and antagonist, Azealia Banks, is back at it again. Her attention is currently on Houston emcee Megan Thee Stallion. During a rant on X, the ‘Van Vogue’ rhymer revealed what she believes Megan’s legacy will be and what it might mean for her boss, Jay-Z.
Megan Thee Stallion recently released her new album, Megan: Act II, on Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label. The project was a reissue of her third studio album, Megan, but a few people in the culture aren’t impressed, and Banks is one of them.
After listening to the body of work, the ‘212’ rapper explained that the tracks just aren’t up to her standard, writing, “Megan makes terrible music. I think even she knows that, and she’s not really got that aspirational ‘I want to be like her’ thing Nicki has. She has to know that most of her success and marketing sh*t is 100000% done in spite of another artist (Nicki Minaj), which automatically makes it unsustainable.”
Nicki Minaj has had her own problems with Megan Thee Stallion, and there is definitely tension between them. Cardi B has also had issues with Minaj, and Banks sees this as the envy of Minaj’s music-making abilities.
Adding to her post, Banks explained, “Cardi and Meg are gonna feel the fallout of wedging everything against public anti-Nicki sentiment because they’re both not smart enough to understand that hatred is often rooted in love. People hate Nicki because they adore her. Attention is attention. Only a dumbass would hop on and try to ride that wave without a plan B.”
Banks then blamed Jay-Z for signing Megan Thee Stallion to Roc Nation and insisted that it was a bad move on his behalf. Explaining how bad she believes it looks for the Brooklyn legend, Banks posted, “Like I said before, Meg The Stallion is going to be a HUGE sh*t stain on Jay-Z’s damn near flawless reputation for creating huge female stars.”
The Harlem emcee then referenced Rita Ora, who Jay-Z signed in the early 2010s with little success, stating, “Rita Ora was the flop bird sh*t he avoided landing on his head, but this Meg shit is Def going to land on his report card. You don’t go from Beyonce & Rihanna to Rita Ora & Meg The Stallion.”
Banks isn’t the only person who has hit out at Megan Thee Stallion recently. During an episode of his podcast, Joe Budden reacted to Megan’s album and the numbers she was hitting on Spotify insisting that they were inflated.