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• Why hasn't Kanye West been 'cancelled'?

  01-06-2018 21:59
  With the release of his new album Ye, West’s support for Trump and comments about slavery have faded from some fans’ memoryJust one month after he re-affirmed his support for Trump and said slavery “was a choice”, Kanye West has released a new album. While many are discussing the quality of the record’s seven tracks, few are debating whether West should be releasing new music in the first place.West first made his support for Donald Trump known in November 2016, 10
  
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• Kanye West: ye review – a candid tour of a troubled mind

  01-06-2018 17:37
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  The world’s most talked-about rapper is bracingly honest about his mental health struggles – though his attitude towards women still needs workIt seems a strange thing to say about an album premiered at a globally live-streamed exclusive playback that involved flying journalists and “influencers” to the mountain ranges of Wyoming – an event with its own merchandise range, including a long-sleeved T-shirt that retails for $145 – but there
  
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• New Music Round-Up: Kanye West, Gorillaz, The 1975, Drake...

  01-06-2018 15:05
  Maroon 5, Charli XCX, Rex Orange County, J HUS and more also released new music
  
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• Yoko Ono is back in Liverpool, a city she never forgot

  01-06-2018 14:31
  She was labelled a witch and a band wrecker. Now, 38 years after the murder of her husband John Lennon, Yoko Ono has returned to his home town to tell their story“Your life is being conducted in front of the world, like a play,” Yoko Ono tweeted recently. “Know that it is, therefore, a play to people who watch it.” That Ono is on Twitter makes utter sense: her aphorisms were almost like tweets before the thing was invented. She has always been ahead of her time. People se
  
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• Westworld Star Joins Sonic The Hedgehog Movie

  01-06-2018 14:07
  Here's everything we know about the upcoming Sonic The Hedgehog movie.
  
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• 10 Acts We Loved At All Points East Festival

  01-06-2018 13:12
  The inaugural All Points East festival kicked off our festival season here in London last weekend so we thought we'd round up our fave acts for you...
  
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• Marnie Simpson Absolutely Rinses Casey Johnson As He Endures Epic Cactus Fail

  01-06-2018 12:49
  The Geordie Shore lass dealt a bit of a blow to her man.
  
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• Bella Hadid Insists She’s Never Had Plastic Surgery: “I Wouldn’t Want To Mess Up My Face”

  01-06-2018 12:28
  The model revealed that she's never gone under the knife.
  
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• Kanye West cites Trump, #MeToo and his bipolar disorder on new album ye

  01-06-2018 12:10
  West premiered his eighth studio album via live stream from his property in WyomingKanye West has released his eighth studio album, ye, which references controversial remarks made by West in recent months, including a recent interview with TMZ in which he said that 400 years of slavery in America “sounds like a choice”. He premiered it via a live-streamed playback from his creative retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and it is now available on streaming and download platforms.On a trac
  
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• Chloe Ferry Had THE BEST Response To Sam Gowland Saying She's Only With Him For His Money

  01-06-2018 12:09
  The Geordie Shore lass made a very valid point.
  
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• Geordie Shore Spoiler: Sam Gowland Majorly Kicks Off At Newbie Nick Murdoch Over The Sh*g Pad: ‘That Little Pr*ck Is Doing My Head In’

  01-06-2018 12:04
  Geordie Shore continues Tuesdays at 10pm only on MTV!
  
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• Tracks of the week reviewed: Bjork, Zayn Malik, Pale Waves

  01-06-2018 12:00
  Featuring another majestic sci-fi curio from Björk, Zayn’s numb-tongued soul and the Bastilleification of UK guitar music continues apace with Pale Waves Continue reading...
  
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• Tristan Thompson Is Apparently ‘Exhausted’ By The Khloe Kardashian Cheating Drama

  01-06-2018 11:41
  Same.
  
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• Lump: Lump review – Laura Marling's melodic side-project lingers in the mind

  01-06-2018 11:30
  (Dead Oceans)On paper, Lump sounds like a particularly eye-roll-inducing side project. Conceived by Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay of folk group Tunng, the venture was christened by Marling’s five-year-old goddaughter and is described by the pair as a fully autonomous being that takes the form of a dancing yeti (see video below). But however littered with in-jokes Lump may be, the songs that make up the duo’s debut album are never alienating. Instead, the record – which is unde
  
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• Imprisoned Alice Johnson Pens Emotional Letter Of Gratitude To Kim Kardashian

  01-06-2018 10:56
  The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star met with POTUS to discuss her case.
  
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• Hailee Steinfeld And Niall Horan Spotted 'Kissing'

  01-06-2018 10:49
  Eek!
  
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• Why Fans Are Convinced Cara Delevingne And Ashley Benson Are Dating

  01-06-2018 10:33
  People have already declared them the couple of 2018.
  
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• Neko Case: Hell-On review – a pitch-perfect roar of female defiance

  01-06-2018 10:30
  (Anti-)When Neko Case’s house burned down in 2017, her local newspaper invaded her privacy to a degree that made her fear the return of the stalker she had recently bankrupted herself to defeat. The journalist publicised her furious, private response, which told her something about how women’s life stories are stolen from them, how quickly their anger is spun as hysteria. Hell-On, Case’s seventh album, addresses this theft at the hands of selfish writers and cruel men – a
  
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• Father John Misty: God's Favorite Customer review – downsides to the confession profession

  01-06-2018 10:00
  (Bella Union)When is the car crash real, and when is it CGI? The issue of honesty has reared up again and again during the course of Josh Tillman’s career as Father John Misty, not least because of his own obfuscation. Last year, he told the Observer his lyrics “are the most true things I will ever say”, but in the same interview he also said the truth about him lay somewhere between believing his songs to be truthful reporting or seeing them as “beta-male, self-aware tri
  
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• 'You can't escape its inspiration': inside the true history of grime

  01-06-2018 07:00
  Grime historians Dan Hancox and DJ Target have both written books about the genre. They discuss its development, glory and legacy – from Wiley and Dizzee to Stormzy and Skepta
  Grime, Afro bashment, drill ... how black British music became more fertile than everSince emerging from London as a harsh, lyrically dextrous, hybrid rap music in the early 00s, grime has had the three-act narrative of a Hollywood movie: the plucky underdog who gets to the top, blows it, and is then redeemed. But fr
  
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• Grime, Afro bashment, drill ... how​ black British music became more fertile than ever​

  01-06-2018 07:00
  Black musicians were once boxed in by the mainstream. But the success of grime has helped diverse, diasporic tracks to hit the charts‘You can’t escape its inspiration’: inside the true history of grimeGrime’s overdue entrance into the UK mainstream, via Stormzy, Skepta and others in the past few years, has now opened doors for a host of other genres of black British music. On the one side, there is the tabloid-worrying, tonally dark road rap and UK drill scenes, with arti
  
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