Megan Thee Stallion is shedding her previous within the new music video for her first official solo single since 2022, “Cobra.” Released below her personal Hot Girl Productions, “Cobra” lyrically touches on Megan’s struggle to maintain her head above water after coping with back-to-back obstacles.
“Breakin’ down and I had the entire world watching,” Megan declares within the first verse earlier than questioning: “Every evening I cried, I virtually died / And no person shut tried to cease me / Long as everyone gettin’ paid, proper?”
The music’s scaley visuals portrayed basically the identical narrative, as Megan faces a venomous cobra and finds herself as the primary attraction when she begins to actually shed items off her pores and skin like a snake as witnesses file.
“This pussy depressed / I’m about to emphasize him,” she raps within the refrain. To say loads has been occurring in Megan’s sphere could be an understatement: she was the central sufferer in a extremely publicized and wildly unpredictable taking pictures trial that discovered fellow rapper Tory Lanez because the wrongdoer.
At the identical time, Megan was in disputes together with her former label, 1501 Certified Entertainment, who lastly put an finish to their disagreement final month after transferring in on a settlement that had each side “amicably half methods.” Specifics on the deal have been saved below wraps however per week earlier than the information of the settlement broke, Megan went on Instagram Live and instructed followers she was paying for her personal musical tasks transferring ahead.
“This a part of my album could be very a lot so funded by Megan Thee Stallion as a result of we’re attempting to get off… Y’all know what’s the tea. But I’ve no label proper now,” she stated, per a report by Billboard. “We’re doing all the things funded straight out of Megan Thee Stallion’s pockets. So, the price range is coming from me. Motherfucking Hot Girl Productions! The subsequent shit y’all about to see is all straight from Megan Thee Stallion’s mind and Megan Thee Stallion’s pockets. We are in my pockets, hotties, so let’s do our large one.”
The single is Megan’s first solo launch (not counting her latest singing stint for “Dicks: The Musical”) since her 2022 sophomore effort “Traumazine,” which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and gave technique to radio hits equivalent to “Sweetest Pie” with Dua Lipa, and “Pressurelicious” that includes Future.
Watch the video for “Cobra” under.
