People thought it was the end of the world when hip-hop wasn’t in the top 40 of Billboard’s Hot 100. People were declaring a rock or jazz kind of death when the genre wasn’t at the forefront of the conversation for a couple weeks. In fairness, we’re a long way from the parading that was happening when Kendrick Lamar was parading Drake’s corpse around after beefing with him. But a lot of the conversation felt like hyperbole and a lack of faith in hip-hop. Now, Megan Thee Stallion made sure that the drought we had didn’t last long.
Recently, Meg’s latest single “Lover Girl” debuted at #38 on Billboard’s Hot 100. This is a far cry from what’s ahead of it. Obviously, Taylor Swift is occupying a ton of real estate after dropping her latest album The Life of a Showgirl— an album that hardly sou

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