Megan Thee Stallion introduced Friday (Oct. 27) that she is dropping a single titled “Cobra” subsequent Friday, Nov. 3.
Together with the date and title, the rapper shared a revealing picture of herself, her physique slick, with the phrases “Cobra – A Story by Megan Thee Stallion” in orange on the backside of the picture.
She teased “Cobra” earlier this week in a brief Instagram clip that had the digital camera zeroing in on Meg’s lips as they have been floating in a black void. “Simply as a snake sheds its pores and skin, we should shed our previous, over and over,” she mentioned over an ominous observe. Then the digital camera pulls again to disclose her face — full with vertical snake eyeballs — and the clip ended with a shot of a pair of dripping fangs.
“Cobra” can even mark her first launch as an impartial artist — the music will arrive on her personal Sizzling Lady Productions — since she revealed in an Instagram Stay earlier this month that she wasn’t signed to a label anymore. “This a part of my album may 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. However I’ve no label proper now,” she defined. “We’re doing the whole lot funded straight out of Megan Thee Stallion’s pockets. So, the funds is coming from me. Motherf—ing Sizzling Lady Productions! The subsequent s— y’all about to see is all straight from Megan Thee Stallion’s mind and Megan Thee Stallion’s pockets. We’re in my pockets, hotties, so let’s do our massive one.”
She lately settled a years-long authorized battle along with her former report label, 1501 Licensed Leisure. The label’s attorneys introduced final week that either side had “mutually reached a confidential settlement to resolve their authorized variations” and that Megan and 1501 will “amicably half methods.”
The rapper’s been regularly releasing new music after asserting that she can be taking a break to give attention to “therapeutic” in April. “Followers can count on new music after I’m in a greater place,” she mentioned in an interview with InStyle. Since then, she launched “Bongos” with Cardi B (a follow-up collaboration to their Billboard Sizzling 100 No. 1 smash “WAP”) and “Out Alpha the Alpha” from the Dicks: The Musical soundtrack. “Bongos” debuted at No. 5 on Billboard‘s Sizzling R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and reached No. 1 on R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Music Gross sales.
See Megan Thee Stallion’s announcement for “Cobra” beneath: