Houston’s Hot Girls Having 2019’s Best Songs Is Both Trill & Important

Queen Bey and Megan Thee Stallion, Both Houston, Texas Natives, Have Recorded 2019’s Best Pop Music

Hot girls are running the summer. It might be Megan Thee Stallion’s fault. If not, blame Beyoncé. If you’re unaware, it’s fine. Houston always has, and always will be the silent force that likely best defines urban-to-pop crossover’s revolutionary spirit.

From Kamala Harris “not having shit to prove” to United States Women’s World Cup Team forward Megan Rapinoe scoring goals and then hitting b-boy stances in celebration (and so much more), 2019 has been a pop cultural year defined by women doing incredibly honest things that may have finally buried the notion that women, as a gender, are in literally any way, subservient and/or just a hair away from relevance as a cadre of most empowered first world leaders. Never a form to shy away from how culture best defines itself, two Black women from Houston, Texas — upstart emcee Megan Thee Stallion and Queen of Pop Beyoncé — have, in Stallion’s sexy, anthemic rap moment “Big Ole Freak” and Mrs. Knowles-Carter’s cover of Frankie Beverly and Maze’s cookout anthem “Before I Let Go,” successfully once again proven that Houston, as much as Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York’s five boroughs, or anywhere…