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In an incredible four-hour-long interview with Forbes, Kanye West said he fell sick from the coronavirus in February and spoke against a COVID-19 vaccine.
Following the rapper’s Independence Day announcement that he would be running for the US presidency in 2020, Ye revealed to Forbes he’d contracted COVID-19 in February and insisted his tweet was not a publicity stunt.
“Chills, shaking in the bed, taking hot showers, looking at videos telling me what I’m supposed to do to get over it,” West described his experiences with the illness.
“I remember someone had told me Drake had the coronavirus and my response was Drake can’t be sicker than me!”
He maintained that the illness had nothing to do with his considerations to run this year.
“God just gave me the clarity and said it’s time,” West said. “You know I was out there, ended up in the hospital, people were calling me crazy. I’m not crazy.
“Between all of the influences and the positions that we can be put in as musicians… It can drive you crazy, through all of that I was looking crazy because it wasn’t the time. Now it’s time. And we’re not going crazy, we’re going Yeezy, it’s a whole ‘notha level now. N-O-T-H-A.”
West also revealed his suspicions surrounding a COVID-19 vaccine to combat the disease, calling it “the mark of the beast”. “We pray,” West began, “We pray for the freedom. It’s all about God. We need to stop doing things that make God mad.”
West candidly touched upon his previous (and very public) support for Trump, saying, “Trump is the closest president we’ve had in years to allowing God to still be part of the conversation.”
Forbes reporter Randall Lane described the conversation with West as “four rambling hours of interviews”, through which the billionaire rapper also shared his thoughts on abortion, foreign policies, Joe Biden, racial healing after George Floyd, his position as a political novice, taxes, China, that he “envisions a White House organisational model based on the secret country of Wakanda in Black Panther” and that he no longer supports President Trump – “I am taking the red hat off, with this interview.”
West’s candidacy announcement was supported publicly by Elon Musk, who tweeted, “You have my full support.” The response to West’s announcement was swift, though it divided many of his followers.
Despite his intent to run, West had already missed several key deadlines in six US states. He is, though, still eligible to register in the states of South Carolina, Florida, Missouri, Colorado and Michigan, whose ballot deadlines fall this month.
On July 6, West reportedly filed papers to trademark his ‘West Day Ever’ slogan.
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