Hey I'm Brian Hyatt and this is Rolling Stone Music Now. A lot going on in this episode. Rolling

Stone's new cover story features Megan The Stallion and it's a news breaking and sometimes heartbreaking

look at one of my favorite rappers out there right now.

To talk about that we have that stories writer Rolling Stones Monkapur-Kante and we'll be joining me in a minute and

afterwards we're going to talk about the strange and welcome phenomenon

where Kate Bush and her song running up that hill a deal with God has made it into the top 10 of the current pop charts

despite the fact that she recorded it in 1985 thanks to the show Stranger Things. And we will have Rob Sheffield on board for that one.

But here's Monkapur-Kante to talk about Meganestyan.

Hey Monkapur, and first of all, congrats on the story.

There's a lot to talk about but I wanted to start with

Megan's next album which you got a super exclusive look at and there's at least one song you heard

that you didn't get a chance to talk about in the story. So I thought you could touch on that now. The song I believe was called Flip Flop. Let's do a little

Rolling Stone Music Now exclusive here and tell me a little bit about that song. She recorded a lot of stuff. There's no guarantee that

anything that I heard will actually be on the album. But she definitely is really in

love with the five songs that she played for me and flip-flopping one of them. And so one of the things that stood out with me most

about that song is it has that kind of like

southern baseline.

It feels like riding in like a cool ass car, you know, going slow.

It just felt really cool.

And so she's kind of singing,

rapping in the chorus she's singing,

and she's contending with fame and struggle in the song.

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