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		</div><p>Kanye West has confirmed he intends to vote in the upcoming US presidential election – and indicated he will be supporting Donald Trump.</p>
<p>The musician and fashion designer is one of the few high-profile celebrities to publicly back Mr Trump and has been criticised for wearing a Make America Great Again (MAGA) hat.</p>
<p>In a wide-ranging interview with GQ magazine, West said the influence of his parents – who were both involved in the civil rights movement – means his race will not influence which box he will tick on the ballot paper.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Presenting GQ’s May cover star: <a href="https://twitter.com/kanyewest?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Kanyewest</a>.<br />Read the story by <a href="https://twitter.com/willwelch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WillWelch</a> and see all the photos by <a href="https://twitter.com/Tyler_Mitchell_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Tyler_Mitchell_</a> here: <a href="https://t.co/gCzJzWIwuQ">https://t.co/gCzJzWIwuQ</a> <a href="https://t.co/Q90UXhzx08">pic.twitter.com/Q90UXhzx08</a></p>
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<p><em>“They didn’t fight for me to be told by white people which white person I can vote on,”</em> he said, a reference to Mr Trump and Joe Biden, who has all but secured the Democratic Party nomination.</p>
<p>West, 42, said he is <em>“definitely”</em> voting, adding “<em>and we know who I’m voting on”</em>. He mocked Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign slogan of <em>“I’m with her”</em> and said the success of his most recent album was proof his music career will survive the fallout from any controversy surrounding his support for Mr Trump.</p>
<p>He said: <em>“And I’m not going to be told by the people around me and the people that have their agenda that my career is going to be over.</em></p>
<p><em>“Because guess what: I’m still here! Jesus Is King was No 1! I was told my career would end if I wasn’t with her. What kind of campaign is that, anyway?</em></p>
<p><em>“That’s like if Obama’s campaign was ‘I’m with black.’ What’s the point of being a celebrity if you can’t have an opinion? Everybody make their own opinion!”</em></p>
<p>West also said buying property was “better now” than when Barack Obama was in the White House.</p>
<p>He said: <em>“I buy real estate. It’s better now than when Obama was in office. They don’t teach you in school about buying property. They teach you how to become somebody’s property.”</em></p>
<p>Asked about his intentions when wearing the MAGA hat, West said: “<em>I didn’t intend for anything except to speak my mind and express how I felt. I have no intention other than to be free, and I don’t intend to be free – I just simply am.”</em></p>
<p>West is no stranger to making controversial comments on race and attracted strong criticism in 2018 when saying slavery was a <em>“choice”</em>.</p>
<p>He returned to the theme of slavery in the GQ interview while discussing his infamous 2005 claim that President George Bush <em>“doesn’t care about black people”.</em></p>
<p>West said it was a <em>“victim statement”.</em> He added:<em> “This white person didn’t do something for us. That is stemmed in victim mentality. Every day I have to look in the mirror like I’m Robert De Niro and tell myself, ‘You are not a slave.’ As outspoken as I am, and the position that I am in, I need to tell myself.”</em></p>
<p>West, who is married to reality TV star Kim Kardashian West, also said he was a <em>“functioning alcoholic”</em> and used to drink vodka in the morning.</p>
<p>He said: <em>“One day I was in my office working on the couture collection, and there was some Grey Goose in the fridge and I was just going to get a daytime drink, and I looked and thought, ‘Devil, you’re not going to beat me today.’</em></p>
<p><em>“That one statement is like a tattoo. I haven’t had a drink since I realised I needed to take it day by day, but I never owned up, or was even told, ‘Hey, you’re a functioning alcoholic.’</em></p>
<p><em>“People have called me a crazy person, people have called me everything – but not a functioning alcoholic. And I would be drinking orange juice and Grey Goose in the morning.”</em></p>
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