After their 2019 collaboration "Hot Girl Summer", Nicki Minaj and Megan Thee Stallion's relationship soured.

Minutes after the release of "Hiss", Minaj took to Instagram Live to preview her response track, titled "Big Foot".

She also addressed Desiree Perez, CEO of Jay-Z's Roc Nation, which manages Megan, writing: "so many ppl were blind sighted & hurt by her.

[12] She further commented about their major financial backing of Megan and a discrepancy in her success: "if your last 5-10 releases flopped… If the internet checks don't clear outside in real life.

"[13] In a live discussion with Joe Budden on Twitter Spaces, Minaj said that Megan's producer "bragged" about not clearing the beat for her track, Roc Nation employs online bots, and that the root of the rapper beef is from the companies in charge, stating: "this is a dialogue between me, the machine and a bunch of different machines having to come together constantly using different people.

[17][18] Robin Murray of Clash deemed the song a miss and bore, writing that it "revels in the obvious, doesn't reveal anything new, and rejoices in cheap shots", and said that its beat is "colorful yet felt oddly dated".

[19] HuffPost's Taiyler Mitchell declared the song a miss and criticized Minaj "slut-shaming" Megan on it and her lyrics about the Lanez case.

[8] Billboard called it a "combative" single and stated that it "touches on plenty of things [Minaj] referenced on social media previously".

[23] In a list of worst songs of the year, Variety writer Thania Garcia included "Big Foot", remarking that Minaj was "embarrassingly outlandish in her deliveries and threats" and the song has "so many perplexing verses", with the "most unsettling portion" being the ASMR delivery at the end.

[29] It also debuted at number 36 on the Billboard Global 200, which is based on digital sales and online streaming from over 200 territories worldwide.