He announced his unlikely bid to run for President of the United States at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night.

And despite the doubts surrounding Kanye West’s chances of sitting in the White House’s Oval Office in five years’ time, he’s got one firm supporter in fellow rapper and former N.W.A. star, Ice Cube.

The 46-year-old told Daily Mail Australia on Friday as he promoted new movie Straight Outta Compton in Sydney that he is backing the Gold Digger singer as president and his wife Kim Kardashian West as the First Lady, but would not consider running alongside him as his Vice President.

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Yes he Kanye! Despite doubts surrounding Kanye West’s chances of sitting in the White House’s Oval Office in five years’ time, he’s got one firm supporter in fellow rapper and former NWA star, Ice Cube

‘I’m voting for Kanye,’ Ice Cube told Daily Mail Australia. ‘Who is better than Kanye that would run?’

While Keeping Up With The Kardashians star Kim as First Lady is something that Ice Cube thinks would be ‘cool’.

‘If that’s what it is, that’s what it is,’ he added. ‘No matter who is the president, you got to all get up and go to work in the morning.’

‘I’m voting for Kanye West’: Ice Cube told Daily Mail Australia on Friday as he promoted Straight Outta Compton in Sydney that he supports Kanye for US President and Kim Kardashian as the First Lady

Sitting alongside his 24-year-old lookalike son, O’Shea Jackson Jr, who pays him in the Box Office host movie, Ice Cube said that a role as Kanye’s right-hand man would not suit him.

I’m not into politics like that,’ he laughed.

While O’Shea said: ‘No!’

‘You know, I’m into helping my people get over the hump. I don’t have time to help everybody,’ Ice Cube added. ‘We got a lot of work to do.’

 

Star power: The 46-year-old is Down Under promoting the Box Office hit movie with his 24-year-old lookalike son, O’Shea Jackson Jr

‘No chance’: Ice Cube said he would not consider running alongside Kanye as his Vice President

Kanye announced he would run at the end of an 11-minute speech on stage at the MTV VMAs on Sunday in Los Angeles.

Taylor Swift honoured the star with a gushing introduction that was a nod to their first encounter, in which the 38-year-old famously rushed the stage when Taylor Swift accepted an award back in 2009, claiming that his friend Beyonce was a more worthy recipient.

To wrap up his speech on Sunday, Kanye simply said: ‘As you probably could’ve guessed by this moment, I have decided, in 2020, to run for president.’

He had, however, announced earlier in the epic speech that he had smoked a joint before heading up on stage.

‘Y’all might be thinking right now, ‘I wonder did he smoke something before he came out here?’ And the answer is yes, I rolled up a little something, I knocked the edge off,’ he said.

Straight Outta Compton is in cinemas now.

‘And you probably could’ve guess it…’ Kanye announced he would run at the end of an 11-minute speech on stage at the MTV VMAs on Sunday in Los Angeles