2020 Review: “Good News” by Megan Thee Stallion
The debut album from the Houston rapstress extraordinaire dispatches rivals and amplifies her swag to immense proportions.
The modern music industry has pushed artists of all stripes in a more generic direction lately.
Genres from pop to metal have had to resist market forces that value brevity, safeness, and surefire profitability, even if it means repeating something popular from the past instead of creating an original concept.
Hip-hop has been one of the worst offenders in this regard, with so many artists coming off as incapable of sounding like unique individuals or even incapable of using more than one flow. Men have dominated here from the beginning and still hold an outsized influence on what point of view is presented in rap music.
That’s why I really gravitate toward female rappers; they feel like the people bringing a creative shake-up to a genre undergoing a noticeable quality decline. And of the lady ballers working today, few could compete with Houston’s own Megan Thee Stallion for the title of “Queen.” Therefore, in anticipation of her upcoming third album Megan, let’s return to the album that made her a household name, 2020’s Good News.
Meg opens the album with “Shots Fired,” and she placed it first for a reason, because it addresses the…
