The rapper reportedly stopped the
concert and delivered a 40-minute political rant, shocking the crowd
with his endorsement of the Republican president-elect.
Kanye
West attracted boos after telling the audience that, while he didn’t
vote in the 2016 presidential election, he “would’ve voted for Trump.”
He
said: “I would have voted on Trump”, adding that “This is my platform
and I’m going to talk about the paradigm shift that’s happening right
now.”“[Voting
for Trump] don’t mean that I don’t think that black lives matter; that
don’t mean I don’t believe in women’s rights; that don’t mean that I
don’t believe in gay marriage,” he continued, adding, “This world is
racist, OK? Let’s stop being distracted to focus on that as much. It’s
just a fucking fact: We are a racist fucking country, period.”
Kanye also reiterated his desire
to run for president in 2020, saying his focus would be on education and
that his campaign would use a different political model.“Stop
focusing on racism,” he added, declaring sombrely: “We are in a racist
country – period.” His stance stands in stark contrast to 2005 Kanye,
who famously declared that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”
in the wake of the devestating Hurricane Katrina.
The concert received an understandably mixed response.
“I loved it and hated it at the same time,” said a concertgoer.“It
was lit. I love Kanye. I love Kanye but he talks a lot. He talks too
much. But we all know that. We still love him, though,” said a Kanye
West fan.
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