The teachers at my middle school mixer had no problem letting us dance to Ja Rule’s 2001’s “Always on Time,” in which he sings, "I got two or three hoes for every V and I keep 'em drugged up off that ecstasy." https://goingdowns.substack.com/p/the-salem-witch-trials-reboot-feat

Most importantly, the world of “WAP” is a world where sex is consensual, non-violent, and honestly kind of sweet. Claiming you’ll “Switch my wig, make him feel like he cheatin'” is extremely innocent in the context of a committed relationship.

For pearl-clutchers, the P.O.V. in “WAP” is from the perspective of a wife telling her husband these things. We’re not even talking premarital cunnilingus here! (I don't cook, I don't clean But let me tell you how I got this ring).

And, unlike most male-written rap songs about sex, “WAP” gives reciprocity. In Megan’s verse, she offers oral sex to the point of asking to have her man’s dick “Touch that lil' dangly thing that swing in the back of my throat.” Now that’s karma.

I think if it’s getting to them, it’s working. Good art is subversive. When you punch up at power structures, people in those power structures (men, politicians, women w/internalized misogyny, religion), get mad. The madder they get, the more normalized the song’s message becomes