1. I'm Not Done With Kanye--But It's Getting Hard to Justify This

From The Daily Beast: "I'm a fan from day one, and I know the circus. So it was tough for me to get mad at Yeezy. Until now."

2. Kanye West fell for the worst black Republican sales pitch there is. Here's why.

From Washington Post: "His drive to be regarded as an outside-the-box thinker led him to be taken in by the absurd argument that black voters are slaves on the Democratic Party plantation."

3. Chance the Rapper: 'Black people don't have to be Democrats'

From CNN: "Chance the Rapper, who has been critical of Trump in the past, tweeted, "Black people don't have to be democrats.""

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