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How Did Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Hiss’ Become the Rare Rap Beef Song to Debut at No. 1?

Megan Thee Stallion's "Hiss" debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week -- what impact will that have on the rap world?

Still, Megan Thee Stallion’s “Hiss” — whose venomous (though unspecified) disses set off a social media frenzy, including responses from some of the presumed targets — certainly is in rare air as a beef cut with its debut atop the Hot 100 this week, making for the rapper’s third No. Jason Lipshutz: “Hiss” may have picked up buzz due to its place in an A-list rap beef, but the track is brimming with quotable lyrics that got shared around social media and extracted for various TikTok clips. Part of the reason why Megan Thee Stallion can excel in a rap feud is because she has always understood how to deliver a scorching one-liner — so while some of the best lines of “Hiss” are aimed at one particular adversity, others are just top-notch bars meant to be repurposed against any and all haters.

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