Make America clickbait again. The better of the two KANYE songs released over the weekend, musically speaking, is the one where he raps about poopy di scoop, scoop diddy whoop and (my favorite) poop di scoopty scoopty whoop. The poopty verse is preceded by a verse that boasts, "This next verse, this next verse though, these bars," and is enunciated so crisply that internet lyric sites will never have to argue about how "scoopty" is spelled. For both of those reasons, the poop talk is genuinely funny, at least by the standards of a sixth grader with preternatural production skills and good comic timing. The other Kanye song, which the RINGER's LINDSAY ZOLADZ accurately crowns this year's "ACCIDENTAL RACIST" ("if the fact of his racism wasn’t an accident at all, but rather dangerously intentional"), recaps a week's worth of Kanye's own tweets while attempting to answer a week's worth of TWITTER comments. Last week, to be specific. It was released Friday night; the earliest it plausibly could been recorded was Thursday. Two thumbs up for that; I eagerly await the Monday afternoon and Tuesday night remixes. But the most notable thing about "YE VS. THE PEOPLE" is that it's framed as a debate between Ye and T.I. ("starring as the people," according the song's parenthesized subtitle), and by any reasonable debate metric, T.I. trounces him. The protagonist loses his own debate. He starts by saying, "Ever since TRUMP won, it proved that I could be president," which is adorably narcissistic and kind of like me saying, "Ever since BUFFALO WILD WINGS became popular, it proved that I could be a chef." He then offers various platitudes about brokering peace, spreading love and flipping political scripts. T.I., fulfilling the role of the people admirably, starts his rebuttal with "Where you tryna go with this?," continues with "You wore a dusty-a** hat to represent the same views as white supremacy, man, we expect better from you," and by the end Kanye isn't even trying to answer him anymore. Instead the star decides to "cut the beat off and let the people talk." As if the people haven't already spoken... P.S. I'm dying to know if T.I. wrote his part himself or if Kanye scripted it for him. I'm not sure which answer would be worse... The best political song released last week is WILLIE NELSON's nonpartisan "ME AND YOU," about friendship between the last two sane people standing in an insane world. It's followed, on Nelson's new album, LAST MAN STANDING, by "SOMETHING YOU GET THROUGH," a Great American Songbook-worthy ballad about surviving loss. An astonishing album from a singer-songwriter who turned 85 on Sunday... Does someone need to build a wall around Nashville to keep pop stars from New York and other immigrants out? With BEBE REXHA and FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE's "MEANT TO BE" becoming the latest in a string of pop/country collaborations to top the country airplay chart, the answer in some quarters is, um, yes. In what other genres are insiders so overtly hostile to contributions from perceived outsiders? (Wait, don't answer that. It might be all of them)... GEORGE CLINTON bows out... ABBA bows in... RIP TED "THE GODFATHER" DEVOUX of BOO-YAA T.R.I.B.E.