Like Beyoncé and Drake before her, Megan Thee Stallion is getting in on the house music trend. On Friday, the rapper dropped her new album Traumazine, and it includes the bass-pumping house anthem “Her,” the LP’s latest single. Fans seem to approve of her foray into the genre—the song has since climbed into the Top 20 on the Genius Top Songs chart.
Traumazine features collaborations with the likes of Rico Nasty, Jhené Aiko, and Latto. It also features a guest verse from Future on the song “Pressurelicious,” which Megan says she paid $250,000 to secure. In an interview with Power 106 Los Angeles, the Texas MC recalled saying to her manager, “‘We need to get Future $250,000 before he leaves Miami ’cause I gotta get this verse’ … We got the $250,000, and I had my manager go drop it off to him in a backpack to get me my verse back.”
Produced by CashMoneyAP, YoungKio, Malibu Babie, and Vaughn Oliver, “Her” is about Megan Thee Stallion brushing off her haters and celebrating her greatness. On the first verse, she’s so high above her adversaries that she struggles to remember the criticism they threw at her.
Just the other day, I heard a ho say
Matter of fact, what could a ho say?
With a face like this and a bitch this paid
Shit, what could a ho say?
The chorus is all about one person, and that, of course, Megan Thee Stallion.
I’m her, her, her, her, her, her, her, her
She, she, she, she, she, she, she
Take a pic, it’s me, me, me, me, me, me, me
Tell your friends this her, her, her, her, her, her, her, her (Ah)
Megan calls out her haters for biting her style on the second verse.
Hoes must’ve just seen me and they playin’ catch-up
Bitches lookin’ like lil’ Megans playin’ dress-up
She’s not bothered by it on the third verse, though. In fact, Megan invites any kind of talk—good or bad—as long as it revolves around her. After all, the attention only puts more money in her pocket.
The more hoes hatin’, more money I’ma make
And the more niggas talk, more niggas want a taste
She closes out the verse by letting her haters know she’s not going anywhere.
To everybody hatin’, y’all can suck this clit
’Cause the hate campaign ain’t workin’ at all
I ain’t Jack or Jill, bitch, I ain’t gon’ fall
“Her” arrived alongside a Colin Tilley-directed music video, where Megan Thee Stallion lets loose in stark black-and-white setting. This way, you can focus on one thing and one thing only: her.
You can read all the lyrics to “Her” on Genius now.
