As part of what was described as a "rambling" four-hour interview with Forbes earlier this week in which Kanye West laid out his plans for a purported presidential run, the rapper also briefly dipped back into his day job as an MC, dropping three ragged freestyles for the financial magazine that touched on the COVID-19 pandemic, his struggle with addiction, the O.J.
Simpson verdict and the death penalty. In the absence of any concrete policy prescriptions and lacking any semblance of a traditional campaign staff, the three off-the-top raps are a stream-of-consciousness addendum to the interview, in which Ye bounced from dissing presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden to disavowing his MAGA mania and describing his dream of