Kanye West says he wants to model the White House after Wakanda from Marvel's 'Black Panther'
- In a new interview with Forbes, Kanye West said that his organizational structure for the White House would be modeled after the fictional country of Wakanda, from Marvel's "Black Panther."
- West, who intends to run for president in 2020, said that he's "gonna use the framework of Wakanda right now because it's the best explanation of what our design group is going to feel like in the White House."
- The rapper pointed to Wakanda's technological advancements and the "amount of innovation that can happen."
- "The amount of innovation in medicine — like big pharma — we are going to work, innovate, together," West said.
Kanye West says that he's running for president in 2020 and compared his organizational model for the White House to that of the fictional nation of Wakanda from Marvel's "Black Panther."
"A lot of Africans do not like the movie and representation of themselves in…Wakanda," the 43-year-old musician said in a new interview with Forbes.
"But I'm gonna use the framework of Wakanda right now because it's the best explanation of what our design group is going to feel like in the White House…That is a positive idea: you got Kanye West, one of the most powerful humans — I'm not saying the most because you got a lot of alien level superpowers and it's only collectively that we can set it free."
The rapper continued: "Let's get back to Wakanda… like in the movie in Wakanda when the king went to visit that lead scientist to have the shoes wrap around her shoes. Just the amount of innovation that can happen, the amount of innovation in medicine — like big pharma — we are going to work, innovate, together."
"Black Panther" was released in February 2018 as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, starring Chadwick Boseman as leader T'Challa/Black Panther.
The film was set in a fictional, isolated country called Wakanda, located in Africa. Known for being technologically advanced, Wakanda housed revolutionary equipment, like a magnet-powered transportation system, kimoyo beads, and the Black Panther suit that absorbs kinetic energy. The tech was designed by Shuri (Letitia Wright), T'Challa's younger and wiser sister.
When West spoke to Forbes about the moment "when the king went to visit that lead scientist to have the shoes wrap around her shoes," he was likely referring to a scene in the movie in which T'Challa visited Shuri in her lab.
After exclaiming over her brother's sandals, she showed him newly-developed sneakers, which appeared to be flat soles, but transformed and molded to the shape of his feet. They were also fully automated and sound absorbent, to assist in his stealthy missions.
West went on to say that his organizational structure would include a "big mix of pharma and holistic."
"This is not going to be some Nipsey Hussle being murdered, they're doing a documentary, we have so many soldiers that die for our freedom, our freedom of information, that there is a cure for AIDS out there, there is going to be a mix of big pharma and holistic."
Elsewhere in his interview with Forbes, the rapper revealed that he recovered from the coronavirus, said that he's OK with taking Black voters away from Joe Biden, and one of his goals is to end police brutality in America.