JULIANNE ESCOBEDO SHEPHERD's deep dive into TYLER, THE CREATOR's actual banishment from the U.K. and sort of banishment from AUSTRALIA is the best piece I've read in a long time on hip-hop lyrics, feminism, free speech and other issues swirling around that sphere. SHEPHERD is sympathetic to both sides, and lets them both have their say. She's also a TYLER fan, and her piece serves as a great back-door profile of the talented and hyper-self-aware rapper in the middle of all this, a rapper who's found himself in trouble because he's "unapologetic for the music people think he is supposed to be apologetic for." A crucial read... Meanwhile, "STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON" continues to raise other questions about hip-hop lyrics and women... KANYE's VMA speech reimagined as a "SEINFELD" cold open... No one at MTV knew whether KANYE was going to talk or do a song until a few minutes before he went onstage... TAYLOR SWIFT: a SOCRATIC dialogue... TECHNICS is back in the turntable business... The sounds of WES CRAVEN.