This Instagram throwaway filmed in a parking lot was packed with wit, bracing storytelling and savage insults, delivered with a shrugging casualness earned via decades of practice. Megan’s biggest role this year might have been as an inspiration, though: emanating a gravitational pull so intense that it got Beyoncé thisssssssss close to working blue. By comparison, Megan plays it straight on “WAP,” though she’s much looser on the remix of “Savage,” which extended the song’s life beyond its TikTok breakthrough. Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion, ‘WAP’ Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyoncé, ‘Savage (Remix)’Ĭardi is one of the great comedians in hip-hop, but while her public persona might tend toward the slapstick, as a lyricist, she’s much more sly, toying with social-comfort norms and straight-facedly committing to the most vivid, campy and raunchy of details.