Kanye West Confirms 2020 Presidential Run: "I've Got A Lot Of Growing Up To Do"

The rapper gets extremely candid about his political ambitions in a new interview with Vanity Fair.

To viewers' surprise, West announced his presidential plans at the 2015 MTV VMAs in August. While most of us thought it was just another instance of Kanye being Kanye, turns out the "Gold Digger" singer was far from kidding.

When Vanity Fair asked if West was serious about the statement the rapper confirmed, "Oh, definitely." The interviewer also noted that Kanye's announcement was actually met with some positive feedback, to which he agreed.

"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,'" Kanye said.

"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," he continued.

"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. It's fun. It's fun to be a rock star, and I'll never not be one I guess, but there'll be a point where I become my mother's child. With all the things I've done that people would consider to be accomplishments, what's the point where I become the person that Donda and Raymond West raised? My parents' child," he mused.

The "Stronger" singer also discussed his Yeezy Season 2 line -- which debuted at New York Fashion Week earlier this month -- and confessed his love of ... sweatshirts.

"I think sweatshirts are the way of the future," he explained. "And we worked so hard on our development of our actual sweatshirts to make them fall a certain way, the dyeing that we do, the type of washing where we take a thicker Japanese stretch French terry and wash it down to where it keeps its original qualities but then feels so thin. . . . Sweatshirts are f**king important. That might sound like the funniest quote ever. How can you say all this stuff about running for president in 2020 and then say sweatshirts are important? But they are. Just mark my words. Mark my words like Mark Twain."

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