Vic Mensa's much-discussed XXXTentacion diss aired during tonight's broadcast of the 2018 BET Hip Hop Awards, but the slain artist's name was curiously absent. Mensa delivered lyrics criticizing rappers with histories of domestic violence during a cypher with Taylor Bennett, G Herbo, and Nick Grant. "Only time you bear arms is in a wife beater, loser/Your favorite rapper's a domestic abuser," Mensa rapped....

Tom Krell didn’t expect Los Angeles to feel like this. The 34-year-old songwriter known professionally as How To Dress Well is sitting cross-legged on his bed, struggling to describe the tension at the heart of a city he calls both “extremely beautiful” and “borderline psychotic.” “I have a little yard and a nice house that I like, and it’s just a little easier to live out here in some...

It’s getting harder to find Discmans these days, which is bad news for Kurt Vile. “I’d buy so many from Best Buy, and they’d be like, ‘You want the warranty?’ and I’d be like, ‘No.'" Vile appreciates the clear audio of CDs, but what he really likes is their clear operation: He wants to press a button marked “PLAY” and be done with it. Whenever his current Discman broke, he’d head...