Kanye West takes politics seriously and will be exercising his right to vote in the upcoming 2020 presidential election. The 42-year-old rapper revealed in a new interview with GQ magazine for its May issue that he will "not be told who I’m gonna vote on because of my color." West explained that he will vote not because of his race or socio-economic status but rather because of how he feels about each candidates' policies — right now the race is between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, who is the presumptive Democratic candidate. “I’m definitely voting this time.
And we know who I’m voting on," West said. “Both my parents were freedom fighters, and they used to drink from fountains they were told they couldn’t.