Why Black Men Hate Megan Thee Stallion

This spring, Megan Thee Stallion announced she ended her relationship with NBA shooting guard Klay Thompson. It was the bookend to an intensely public love affair. Meg was outside, openly in love, showering her new boo with home-cooked meals, attending red carpets and sitting courtside with his mother.

The relationship was met with suspicion from the start. Women everywhere were pleased to see Meg finally receiving the love she deserved. And men never believed Meg deserved Thompson.

Despite what anyone thought, in October 2025, Meg released “Lover Girl,” a public declaration she might be retiring her hottie card. "Your n*gga fantasy, my man reality. I had to lock in when I found out he could handle me," she wrote in the catchy banger, using a sample of Total’s “Kissin’ You”. But by April, the romance was a wrap.

The Internet swelled with open misogyny targeting the performer. Across the discourse were familiar judgments about whether Meg was good enough for Thompson's supposedly clean-cut image, whether a woman so sexually expressive could ever be wife material. It was a referendum on if hip hop’s women on the frontlines of global popular culture deserved enormous wealth, fame, and love, too. 

Six months after her breakup with Thompson, Meg made her first public appearance on the Victoria Secret Fashion Show stage. The youngest woman emcee to command the runway, Meg symbolized triumph, discipline and the body of water warriors.

Women everywhere cheered in jubilance from Threads to TikTok. But it was nearly throttled by open, visceral hate from Black men. The comments weren't the machination of commissioned bots. These were comments by real thumbs, in all of their ashy glory, overwhelmed by utter hate for a free Black woman.

But what would make men so viciously non-empathetic toward a Black woman who was ruthlessly shot and lost her mother and great-grandmother in the same month?

In the history of hip-hop, there's never been a bigger target of misogynoir than Megan Thee Stallion. The Houston emcee is paying a high cost for being too autonomous, too sovereign and free.

The official bat signal of anti-Meg comments: Free Tory.