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.

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