Coachella Weekend is around the corner in Indio, California, but I want to talk to you about Wireless in the UK.
It's another three-day music festival, but lately they've been doing the same headliner on each of the three nights.
Last year, it was Drake on night one, Drake on night two, and Drake on night three.
Embarrassing!
This year, Wireless decided to take the same approach, but instead of Drake headlining all three nights,
they booked the most controversial musician on the planet, a guy who used to go by the name of Kanye West.
And everyone got mad.
From sponsors like Pepsi and PayPal to eventually the UK's own Prime Minister, Keir Starmer.
On Tuesday, Ye was banned from entering the UK and Wireless had to pull the plug on the entire festival.
But the rapper has recently come out and apologized for all the terrible things he's said and done.
So, yay or nay on Today Explained.
Explained.
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has for a very long time believed he's God's gift to earth.
And that might even be an understatement.
Either found him insufferable or felt like you could excuse his outsized personality
because his music made you feel like you could fly.
But then, Ye spent years doing everything in his power to alienate his audience.
We asked Chris Murphy from Vanity Fair to come help us understand that era in light
of the rapper's recent efforts to apologize for all of it.
He was always provocative, and some would say that he was provocative for good at the beginning.