Rapper, Kanye West
has implied he will be voting for US President Donald Trump in the 2020
election.
The 42-year-old
rapper made the declaration in the May issue of GQ magazine, saying: 'We know
who I'm voting on... I'm not going to be told by the people around me and the
people that have their agenda that my career is going to be over because of it!'
The father of four
who has always faced backlash for being an outspoken supporter of Trump told
the publication that 'better real estate' is the primary motivation for his
decision.
'I buy real estate.
It's better now than when Obama was in office. They don't teach you in school
about buying property. They teach you how to become somebody's property,' he
claimed.
Asked whether he was
worried about being an outcast in liberal Hollywood due to his political
preferences, West said: 'Celebrities are scared! Celebrities don't have the
real voice... What's the point of being a celebrity if you can't have an
opinion?'
The controversial
rapper also trashed Hillary Clinton's 2016 'I'm With Her' slogan, stating: “I
was told my career would end if I wasn’t with [Hillary Clinton]. What kind of
campaign is that, anyway?”
West continued.
“That’s like if Obama’s campaign was ‘I’m with black.’ What’s the point of
being a celebrity if you can’t have an opinion? Everybody make their own
opinion! You know?”
'Both my parents
were freedom fighters... they didn't fight for me to be told by white people
which white person I can vote on!'
West who got himself
into trouble for claiming that slavery was 'a choice' in 2018, made several
controversial comments on race in his wide-ranging chat with GQ.
'One in three
African Americans are enslaved, and we go more crazy if, you know, someone
scores a touchdown,' he stated.
'Modern-day mass
incarceration is right in front of us, and if I even use the word slavery, I'm
treated like I'm a white person talking about slavery.'
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