Yeezy will most definitely [try to] save in 2020, as Kanye West has confirmed the final zing of his VMAs acceptance speech from last month.
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In an extensive interview on Yeezy Season 2 with Vanity Fair, Kanye West said he would “definitely”/Bound 2 be running for President of the United States in 2020. Cutting quotes from the chunk that follows would be sacrilege, so here goes:
“Especially from the six years of this misconception or the six years I went through of “We don’t like Kanye.” And then as soon as I said that, it was like, “Wait a second, we would really be into that, because actually if you think about it, he’s extremely thoughtful.
Every time he’s ever gotten in trouble, he was really jumping in front of a bullet for someone else. He’s probably the most honest celebrity that we have.” I didn’t approach that because I thought it would be fun. It wasn’t like, Oh, let’s go rent some jet skis in Hawaii. No, the exact opposite.
I sit in clubs and I’m like, Wow, I’ve got five years before I go and run for office and I’ve got a lot of research to do, I’ve got a lot of growing up to do. My dad has two masters degrees. My mom has a PhD, she used to work at Operation PUSH. Somehow the more and more creative I get, the closer and closer I get to who I was as a child. When I was a child, I was holding my mom’s hand at Operation PUSH. I think it’s time. Rap is great.”
West also went on to admit, “I hate politics. I’m not a politician at all. I care about the truth and I just care about human beings.”
Of his in-office strategy and work/life/creativity balance, Kanye says:
“The whole point is to have someone [in office] that’s creative, that’s around amazing creatives. This is my theory: I think the world can be helped through design, so it’s very important that I stay around creative, forward thinkers. It’s very important that I continue to design, to be in practice of trying to make the best decisions possible.”
In other words:
Please: Do everything you possibly can in one lifetime.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) September 23, 2015
Read Vanity Fair’s full interview with Kanye West here; never forget the first time ‘Ye publicly dipped his toe into politics here.
Via Vanity Fair.
