I'm not sure what to make of a man who beseeches his listeners to "hold the selfies / put the 'GRAM away" on Sunday—the Lord's day, the day CHICK-FIL-A closes—but who's using his TWITTER account on this particular Sunday to promote his own internet livestream in all capital letters and who used his Twitter account the previous Sunday to promote his own new album in equally capitalistic letters. There's a specific word or two that comes to mind. There are a number of moments within the 27 minutes that constitute JESUS IS KING where you might find the same words dancing around your head. But I don't want to judge another man's relationship with his god, or with himself. I don't know where he is on his path. I do know he's still a hell of a producer, a master of sonics and aesthetics, and that there are a number of other moments where my nonbelieving soul is stirred. The choir urging us to "sing till the power of the Lord comes down" on the opening "EVERY HOUR." The sublime falsetto soul of "WATER," with guest singer ANT CLEMONS. The conscious hip-hop throwback of "FOLLOW GOD," with an agitated KANYE WEST (this is his record, after all) wrestling with competing fathers and taking a stand against social media "like" buttons. He got 434,000 likes on that tweet last Sunday, but only 39,000 on this Sunday's tweet. And there are moments where his rapping and singing will have you missing Clemons and assorted other guests and, especially, that choir. "I go hard," he raps. "That's on God." You may want God to go a little harder on him. On a purely musical level, that is. There are deeply complicated questions within all of this, and they don't all have satisfying answers, or any answers. Writing for BILLBOARD, NAIMA COCHRANE has important ones to ask about West's relationship with the black community. It's a question on a lot of people's minds right about now. The NEW YORK TIMES' JON CARAMANICA has a different question: Has he changed at all?... PRINCE narrates his life through age 19, and his co-writer DAN PIEPENBRING uses a variety of sources from Prince's vault to take the story forward another decade—till he disbanded the REVOLUTION—in the memoir THE BEAUTIFUL ONES, out Tuesday... You may find yourself thinking "Gee, ELTON JOHN is a lot like me" as you read his memoir, "ME," but (spoiler alert) Elton John is not in fact like any of us, friend-of-REDEF BILL FLANAGAN writes for AIR MAIL... DISCOGS looks back on the 2010s through the lens of the albums its users have bought or wanted to buy (a random way of accessing a decade's memories, as it were), while NPR reviews a decade in the life of BANDCAMP. Those and more in our continually expanding MusicSET: "Alright Alright Alright: The 2010s in Music"... RIP PAUL BARRERE, LEYNA GABRIELE and MARTA KURTAG.