More than two years have passed since Tory Lanez was first arrested and accused of shooting Megan Thee Stallion following a private gathering at the home of Kylie Jenner. As the legal teams of both artists await trial in early 2023, the charges levied against Tory Lanez remain a topic of conversation among even the biggest musical acts in the world. Recently, Drake and 21 Savage teamed up to deliver a track called “Circo Loco” from their first joint album, Her Loss.
“This b*tch lie ’bout gettin’ shots, but she still a stallion/She don’t even get the joke, but she still smilin’,” Drake rapped early in the song’s opening verse.
“Shorty say she graduated, she ain’t learn ?nough/Play your album, track one, ‘kay, I heard enough,” he added later in the opening verse.
Shortly after the song was released, Drake’s friend and close collaborator, Lil’ Yachty, attempted to clarify the line’s meaning.
“I know he’s not going to address it, because I know Drake,” he said.
“It’s not about Megan, it’s about women lying about their butt shots, saying it’s real when it’s fake.”
While several of Drake’s peers and fans took no issue with the song’s lyrics, several others have characterized the song’s opening verse as unnecessary and harmful.
“[I] started listening to Drake’s album. [I] was [three] tracks in when I read about the Megan Thee Stallion reference on Twitter. I won’t be finishing the album and please don’t tell me it’s just wordplay or that it went over my head. I’m very smart. I got it. [That] doesn’t make it less gross,” Dr. Marc Lamont Hill tweeted.
Hill joined Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Angela Rye, Rep. Maxine Waters, Tarana Burke, Tamika D. Mallory and many others have signed a joint letter offering support Megan Thee Stallion.
“You don’t deserve any of this, Megan. You deserve to be heard, to be believed, and most importantly, to be safe,” the group of scholars, journalists and activists wrote.
“There is no amount of power or prestige that can prevent a woman from becoming a victim of violence and there is no level of achievement that exempts women from our society’s complacency with that violence.”
