24 Game Changing Hip-Hop Songs by Women

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Megan Thee Stallion, “Thot Shit” (2021)

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Any number of Megan Thee Stallion songs could have made this list (“Hot Girl Summer,” “Savage” with Beyoncé, and “WAP” with Cardi B all spring to mind), but we chose “Thot Shit” to represent her contribution to the form for its unequivocal assertion regarding pleasure and setting her image on her terms. In the song’s brilliant Megan and her dancers torment a white patriarchal senator who demeans them, filling his life wherever he turns with their domineering sexuality.

Killer couplet: “Hoes said they wish a bitch would, and I’m a genie/Bitch so hot, gotta stay in bikinis”

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