Even Hollywood hadn't thought of it yet.
Kanye West, 43-year-old billionaire rapper, world famous and bipolar is a candidate for the US presidential election which is taking place at the moment.
A political journey made of love and deception with his best enemy Donald Trump, of incoherent speeches and open passion for God.
In a long interview with
Forbes
in July 2020, the rapper reveals that his ambition is not limited to this mandate.
“Let's see if the appointment is for 2020 or for 2024, because it's God who appoints the president.
If it's 2020, then I would have been appointed by God, ”he
explains bluntly.
Today, his name appears on the ballots of 12 out of 52 states, but anyone can vote for him by entering it in the “write-in” box provided for this purpose.
Some states felt that it did not have the required number of signatures, others found it too late or called it a Republican and therefore unfit to run as an independent party.
Aware that it is Donald Trump or Joe Biden who will take place in the Oval office in January, the rapper does not let go.
Let's see if the appointment is for 2020 or for 2024, because it's God who appoints the president.
If it's 2020, then I would have been appointed by God.
Kanye West at Forbes.
Donald Trump rubs his hands.
This former ally turned adversary can allow him to keep his post by stealing votes from his opponent, Democrat Joe Biden.
According to a study by the Canadian "Léger" institute, carried out between October 29 and November 1, Kanye West would obtain one percent of the voting intentions.
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History of his candidacy
The relationship between Kanye West and politics begins in 2009, when the rapper, for once, is the author of an inappropriate gesture during the evening of the MTV Video Music Awards.
While singer Taylor Swift has barely won the award for best music video, Kanye takes the stage and interrupts her to imply that Beyoncé deserves this award more.
His behavior made a certain Barack Obama react who did not hesitate to treat him as a "fool".
West, who had so far backed the Democratic president decides to make them an enemy, despite both hailing from southern Chicago.
This turnaround pushed him years later into the arms of a man almost as extravagant as him, Donald Trump, newly elected.
If he reveals that he did not vote in the previous presidential elections, Kanye declares his love for the new president.
“If I had been there, I would have voted for him.
There are things that I like about the Trump campaign
, ”he said during a concert at the end of 2016, receiving the boos of his incredulous fans.
A few days later, the hashtag "Kanye2020" swarms on the Web.
If it is at this moment a joke aimed at questioning the lucidity of the American electorate, it is perhaps the beginnings of its political history.
Kanye flips his "West"
Between Trump and West, love grows.
In 2018 the president invites the rapper to the White House.
"I love this guy.
Let me give him a hug, ”
says the artist, a fan of his new“ Make America Great Again ”cap, who has just given a speech of unparalleled inconsistency, of which only he has the secret.
"He's a genius,"
retorts the head of state later.
"I know Obama was an envoy from God, but since Trump won he has proven that I can be president"
Kanye west
At that point, Kanye had already briefly mentioned his desires for the presidency.
He thinks of 2020 but projects more for 2024, claiming to have
"100% chance of success".
He then takes his new friend as a model.
"I know that Obama was an envoy of God, but since Trump won, he has proven that I can be president," he
sings at the very beginning of the song
Ye Vs The People
.
Donald Trump invites Kanye West to the White House on October 11, 2018. Oliver Contreras / UPI / ABACA.
At the end of 2018, Kanye West's bipolar disorder began to appear for all to see.
He has already been interned in psychiatry and is himself aware of his illness.
“It's not a handicap, it's a superpower,”
he said the same year, when his album
Ye was released
, the cover of which clearly features the words:
“I hate being bipolar, it's awesome ”
.
Perhaps this is the reason that suddenly pushes him to distance himself from Donald Trump.
“My eyes are wide open today and I realize that I have been used to spread messages that I don't believe in.
I'm going to distance myself from politics in order to devote myself fully to being creative, ”
he said on Twitter without citing the main person concerned.
Candidate of god
Time passes, Kanye keeps the objective in a corner of his mind but devotes himself to a new "creative" activity.
Turned to God, he now takes himself for a prophet and preaches the good word during his “Sunday Services”, a sort of Sunday Masses.
This resulted in two albums in 2019:
Jesus is King
solo and
Jesus is Born
in which he has a gospel choir sing.
His faith even takes them to the Bouffes du Nord theater in Paris where they offer a performance against the biggest names in fashion, gathered for the occasion of fashion week last March.
In early June, the artist mobilized for the George Floyd affair by demonstrating and then offering $ 2 million to cover the entire education of Gianna Floyd, the daughter of the deceased.
We must now fulfill America's promise by trusting God, unifying our visions, and building our future.
Kanye West on Twitter.
The election is approaching.
Kanye West takes a decisive step by officially declaring himself a candidate on July 4, 2020, National Independence Day.
"
We must now fulfill America's promise by trusting God, unifying our visions and building our future,
" he explains.
His party will be the "Birthday Party", because if he wins,
"it will be a birthday party for everyone"
.
West will be the “candidate of God”, advised by his wife, the sultry Kim Kardashian and by Elon Musk, the ambitious megalomaniac boss of Space X.
In the process, "Yé" (one of his many names) launches his campaign for which he collects nearly $ 6.8 million, including $ 6,760,000 coming from his pocket, and $ 11,472.66 from contributions. individual.
On his campaign site, he sets out his program in ten points, all accompanied by a passage from the Bible: restore faith, reduce household debts and student loans, maintain a strong national defense or even offer fair justice.
He then held his first and only high profile meeting in Charleston, South Carolina.
Dressed in a bulletproof vest, Kanye West delivers a scrappy speech before bursting into tears when discussing the subject of abortion.
"I almost killed my daughter," he
yells repeatedly, after recounting the time he wanted to have Kim Kardashian abort their first child, North.
On the Democratic side, the thing does not seem to worry more than reason.
During a fundraiser in 2015 after hearing that Kanye West could appear one day, Barack Obama had allowed himself to give some advice to him.
"You have to spend time with strange characters who act as if they are on a reality TV show,"
then warned the former president, who then advised the rapper not to share in politics his beautiful, dark and twisted fantasy, named after an album -
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- released in 2010. Finally, Obama wondered about his real chances of victory:
“Do you really think that this country is going to elect a black, from the south of Chicago, with a funny name, to be President of the United States? "
.
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A few days before the verdict, Kanye West made a point of delivering a last message in which he directly addresses “the future”, to whom he promises mountains and wonders.
“I still believe in you.
I know the world will get better, but you need us as a people to heal.
You need us so that everyone is responsible for love.
God is love, ”
he wrote.
This time, unfortunately for him, it will take a little more than the help of a divine entity to win.