#ANYONEBUTKANYE

At the VMA Awards last night, rapper Kanye West announced his intentions to run for Presidency in a 20 minute rambling speech, which went like this:

[… 2 minutes silence …]
Bruh!
Listen to the kids, bruh!
I think about when I’m in the grocery store with my daughter, and I have a really great conversation about fresh juice at the… you know.
And at the end they say, “Oh you’re not that bad after all.”
And when I go to a baseball game and 60 thousand people boo me, it crosses my mind a little bit.
And I think if I had to do it all again — what would I have done?
Would I have worn a leather shirt? Would I have drank a half a bottle of Hennessy and given the rest to the crowd? Y’all know, you drank that bottle, too.
The problem was the contradiction. I do fight for artists but in that fight, somehow, was disrespectful to artists. You know all this shit they run about beef and all that, sometimes I feel like I died for the artist’s opinion, for the artist to have an opinion after they got successful.
I’m not no politician, bruh. Listen to the kids, bruh.
I still don’t understand awards shows.
I don’t understand how they get five people … to come stand on a carpet, and have the opportunity to be considered a loser? I don’t understand it, bruh.
I’ve been conflicted, bruh. I just wanted people to like me more. But f*ck that, bruh, 2015. I will die for the art for what I believe in.
Y’all might be thinking right now, “I wonder did he smoke something before he came out here?”
And the answer is yes, I rolled up a little something to knock the edge off. I don’t know what’s gonna happen tonight, what’s gonna happen tomorrow, bruh.
I’m confident I believe in myself. We the millennials, bruh. This is a new mentality. We’re not gonna control our kids with brands.
I don’t know what I’m gonna lose after this it don’t matter though, because it’s not about me.
It’s about ideas, bruh. New ideas. People with ideas. People who believe in truth.
And yes, as you probably could’ve guessed in this moment, I’ve decided in 2020 to run for president!
[ Kanye walks off stage to applause ]