One of the shittiest things about rap music lately has been the genre's willingness to embrace artists who have been accused or convicted of abusing women. Accused abusers like Kodak Black, and convicted ones like 6ix9ine, have had huge hits, and A-list artists have been happy to collaborate with them. And the late XXXTentacion presents…

The pop star also praised Tegan and Sara for their "damn catchy" tunes Pop singer Hayley Kiyoko has spoken about her experience of coming out – and how fan reaction helped her embrace her sexuality. Speaking to PAPER in their Pride issue, the ‘Girls Like Girls’ artist looked back on writing the 2015 single. Kiyoko s...

Confession time: Until this past weekend, I was still excited about new Kanye West music. Still. After everything. This was -- and is -- directly in the middle of one of the most confusing and dispiriting spectacles I've seen in the decade-plus that writing about music has been my job. Kanye West had embraced Donald…

Over the past weekend, Kanye West released two new songs. One of them, "Lift Yourself," is a dumb extended joke. But the other is "Ye Vs. The People," and it's the song where West and T.I. go back and forth, with West attempting to explain his recent embrace of Donald Trump and of various other…

The depressing, disorienting, soul-sucking story of Kanye West's continuing embrace of Kanye West just keeps going. Yesterday, Trump retweeted West and thanked him for his support. And in a TV interview this morning, Trump had more things to say about West.