West is an iconoclastic rapper who sits atop the entertainment industry that Carson derides. In 2011, he visited the Occupy Wall Street protests as a sign of solidarity
The 2016 election has been very strange. But perhaps the strangest development unfolded over the weekend — a burgeoning bromance between rapper Kanye West and Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson.
It started with a Vanity Fair interview of West, published September 24, about his second fashion collection. West repeated his intention, which he first announced at the MTV movie awards, to run for president in 2020. Then, unprompted, expressed his deep admiration for Carson. “As soon as I heard [Ben] Carson speak, I tried for three weeks to get on the phone with him. I was like this is the most brilliant guy,” West said.
It wouldn’t seem like West and Carson would have much in common. Carson is one of the most conservative candidates in a very conservative Republican field. He vehemently opposes gay rights, marijuana legalization, and Obamacare. He says the black community needs to “confront the entertainment industry” for glorifying violence and misogyny.
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