Kanye West says he had coronavirus, reaffirms plans to run for president in 2020

Speaking to Forbes, Kanye West revealed he contracted COVID-19 in February, and has spoken about his views on Trump, Joe Biden, and his own policies.

Kanye West said he experienced "Chills, shaking in the bed, taking hot showers, looking at videos telling me what I'm supposed to do to get over it" when he had coronavirus. He added, "I remember someone had told me Drake had the coronavirus and my response was Drake can’t be sicker than me!"

Discussing why he decided to run for US president this year, the rapper said, "God just gave me the clarity and said it’s time. 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 - you go on tour, you put out all these albums, and you look up and you don’t have any money in your account. 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."

He also expressed that he's cautious when it comes to a coronavirus vaccine, "It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralysed… So when they say the way we’re going to fix Covid is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious. That’s the mark of the beast. They want to put chips inside of us, they want to do all kinds of things, to make it where we can’t cross the gates of heaven. I'm sorry when I say they, the humans that have the Devil inside them. And the sad thing is that, the saddest thing is that we all won’t make it to heaven, that there’ll be some of us that do not make it."

Speaking about his politics, Kanye West revealed he's never voted in his life, and that he would "run as a Republican if Trump wasn’t there. I will run as an independent if Trump is there."

Despite going up against Trump in this year's election, Kanye West explained, "Trump is the closest president we’ve had in years to allowing God to still be part of the conversation."

Kanye also explained why he wore the Make America Great Again hat, "One of the main reasons I wore the red hat as a protest to the segregation of votes in the Black community. Also, other than the fact that I like Trump hotels and the saxophones in the lobby."

Elsewhere in the interview, Kanye West said "Joe Biden’s not special", discussed his desire to re-model the White House around Black Panther's fictional country Wakanda, and spoke about taxes, China, police killings, racial healing after the death of George Floyd, and more.