Oscars dos and don’ts, a Kendrick Lamar / Beyonce double standard, and why we’ve met Kanye a millennium ago.

Since the Oscars are right around the corner, I came up with some dos and don’ts that could make all future acceptance speeches less mind-numbingly dull:

http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2016/02/26/acceptance-speeches-101-how-winners-could-make-the-oscars-way-less-boring/

Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy performance got us wondering about the intersection between art and politics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muu860i2GmE

We batted around the idea that the world may have encountered Kanye West a millennium ago:

And we capped things off with this Alabama Shakes jam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faG8RiaANek

Until next week!

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