KANYE WEST
JUST when you thought that 2020 could not get any odder, rapper Kanye West has announced he is going to run for President of the USA later this year.
He had previously been a strong supporter of current White House incumbent, Donald Trump, but now Kanye, 43, reckons he could do a better job.
But apart from belting out that awful music that the young people seem to like so much these days, what do we know about Kanye – or Mr Kim Kardashian, as he’s better known...
HE was born on June 8, 1977, in Douglasville, Georgia, USA.
HIS middle name is Omari, and as well as being a rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer and composer he is also an entrepreneur and fashion designer.
his parents divorced when he was three years old, he moved with his mother to Chicago.
HIS father, Ray West, is a former Black Panther, a member of the Marxist movement founded in California which fought, among other things, injustices against AfricanAmericans by the police.
HIS mother, Dr Donda C. ( Williams) West, was a professor of
English at Clark Atlanta University, and the Chair of the English Department at Chicago State University.
the age of 10, West moved with his mother to Nanjing, China, where she was teaching at Nanjing University.
used to speak fluent Chinese but has now forgotten how.
IN Swahili, the major language of eastern Africam the name Kanye is translated to mean ‘ the only one’.
HE once claimed to have a “much bigger” dick than Alex Kapranos, frontman of the pop band Franz Ferdinand.
HE’S thought to be worth just over a billion pounds.