GloRilla wasted no time making noise this summer. Yesterday, June 25, the Memphis rapper dropped her highly anticipated collaboration with Pooh Shiesty, “Mane,” a hard-hitting record produced by London Jae, Squat Beats, and B100 that brings together two of Memphis’ most recognizable voices. But while the track is officially a celebration of hometown pride and Memphis energy, the internet had other ideas about what Glo was really saying, and who she may have been saying it to.
Almost immediately after the release, fans began dissecting the lyrics, with many on social media speculating that certain bars could be directed at none other than Glo’s former bestie, Megan Thee Stallion.
The speculation spread fast across X and fan forums, with listeners pointing to lines they believe reference Megan’s public persona and the ongoing tension between the two. Fans are specifically pointing to bars reportedly referencing someone “trying to lil sis” Glo, playing victim, and going from supportive to a hater, language many are connecting to the deteriorating dynamic between the two rappers over the past year.
It’s worth noting that neither GloRilla nor her team has confirmed the lyrics are aimed at Megan Thee Stallion. Even within fan discussions, some listeners are pushing back on the theory, calling the interpretation a reach and noting that the lyrics are vague enough to apply to multiple situations. Others, however, are convinced the timing and the language are too specific to ignore, especially given everything that’s gone down between Glo and Meg since 2024.
Megan Thee Stallion’s camp has not responded to the speculation.
To understand why fans are ready to read between every line, you have to know the full story. This friendship had one of the most public glow-ups in recent rap history — and one of the quietest unravelings.
GloRilla recalled first meeting Megan at her Hottieween Halloween party in 2023, admitting she was “kinda shy” when she showed up. She even side-eyed Meg for not drinking, unsure what to make of her energy at first. But the walls came down quickly. Their friendship took off unexpectedly when Megan later FaceTimed Glo while she was boarding a plane, just being funny and joking around. From that random moment, something real developed.
Megan and GloRilla initially connected while collaborating on “Wanna Be,” and their association grew into a closer friendship from there. The record was a certified smash and opened the door to a second collaboration, “How I Look.” Two Southern rap powerhouses, building something together. The energy felt genuine on and off record.
This was the height of it all. Megan and GloRilla spent months together running through arenas as part of the Hot Girl Summer Tour, with their bond growing stronger on the road. The moments were hard to fake; Meg surprised Glo with flowers for her birthday mid-tour, and Glo returned the love in Houston by presenting Megan with a custom “M” plaque. Megan publicly posted, “I love the bond that me and @glorillapimp have built in these past few weeks! You are my sister 4L.”The Hot Girl Summer Tour grossed $40.2 million across 30 shows. By every measure, these two were locked in as one of rap’s most celebrated female friendships.
The duo appeared on Instagram’s Close Friends Only podcast in August 2024, gushing about the bond they’d built since spending the summer on tour together. They laughed about first impressions, bonded over their shared love of Beyoncé, and playfully called each other out for not being in each other’s Instagram Close Friends list. It was the kind of interview that made fans feel like the friendship was built to last.
Megan even opened up about why the dynamic worked, saying: “In the industry, you really don’t meet a lot of girls who want to see you be successful. Music is competition. Rap is a competition, but those two ladies, I feel like we all like to see each other do good things.”
Then came the moment that changed everything. The rift in their friendship was reportedly noticed by fans on May 21, 2025, when they learned that GloRilla and Stallion had allegedly unfollowed each other on social media after GloRilla posted an Instagram Story featuring Tory Lanez’s song “Y.D.L.R.” Lanez is currently serving 10 years in prison after being convicted of shooting Megan in 2020. For Megan’s supporters, the move, intentional or not, was impossible to overlook.
Glo responded on X the following day, writing: “Ion internet sh*t and I don’t do mess! It was an innocent repost yall bsn.” Some fans believed her. Others weren’t buying it. Reports noted that Stallion cleansed her social media of everything related to GloRilla, though the two reportedly began following each other again shortly after, suggesting a brief patch-up, or at least a public one.
The peace didn’t last. Celebrity stylist EJ King, who previously worked with Megan but parted ways with her in 2020 shortly after the Tory Lanez shooting, had since become GloRilla’s stylist, and the two were publicly spotted together at an NBA game supporting Glo’s boyfriend Brandon Ingram. Fans immediately clocked the optics.
Tension escalated further when GloRilla reportedly liked a post on X that read: “We all know she started being bitter after she was outsold by glorilla lmfaoooo.” Screenshots spread instantly. Then the stylists got involved, Megan’s stylist Kellon Deryck entered the chat with a jab at EJ King, using Cardi B’s now-infamous line “You ain’t no Kellon.” EJ fired back publicly. The camps were clearly divided.
By 2026 the drama had pulled in new players. GloRilla’s sister Victoria Woods, known as BroRilla, referenced Megan in a diss track called “Therapy Session,” rapping “Pressing play on me but pause on Megan Thee Stallion.” Neither Glo nor Megan officially addressed it, but the breadcrumbs kept stacking up.
Which brings us back to today. “Mane” is officially a flex record, a hard-hitting Memphis collaboration about grinding, setbacks, and arriving at the life you worked for. The release came alongside an official visualizer capturing Glo and Pooh Shiesty together in the recording studio. On the surface, it’s a street record between two CMG-affiliated Memphis artists celebrating their city.But the internet doesn’t do surface-level. Fans are convinced certain lyrics carry a second meaning, and given over a year of simmering tension, unfollow activity, liked shade posts, and stylist drama, it’s not hard to see why people are reading into it.
Whether Glo meant every bar for Megan, none of it, or somewhere in between, one thing is clear: the friendship that once grossed $40 million on tour and produced two genuine hits is a distant memory. And rap beef, even the slow-burning quiet kind, always finds its way into the music eventually.
