Charlamagne Tha God on a future political bid: 'I'm not a person that will rule anything out'
He makes waves with his interviews with lawmakers and other high-profile Washington figures, and Charlamagne Tha God says he's not ruling out a future leap into the political waters himself.
"I am not a person that will rule anything out because I was born in 1978, and one thing I've learned about life is that you just never know," the media personality, one of the co-hosts of "The Breakfast Club," told ITK in an exclusive interview, when asked if he might one day run for elected office.
"There's positions that I'm in now that I cannot believe I'm in this position — so you just never know what God has planned," he continued, adding that whether he has political aspirations is a question that's been "coming up a lot lately" in conversation.
"I'm the type of person that I truly want to be of service, that's what I want to spend the rest of my life doing," said the author of the book "Get Honest or Die Lying."
"I'm a real big mental health advocate. I'm real big on just trying to put people in a position to be economically empowered. So any way that I can be of service, and genuinely help people keep food on their table, genuinely be healthy — physically, mentally and spiritually — and genuinely be safe, I'm down to do that," he said.
"And if if that leads me to something in politics, I'm not ruling that out," added the outspoken political and cultural commentator, who's backing Vice President Harris's White House bid.
But if he ran for office, would his campaign signs root on "Charlamagne Tha God for President" or refer to him by his birth name, Lenard McKelvey?
"It would definitely be under Lenard McKelvey, but you know it would be a bunch of people that call me Charlamagne just because that's what they know me as," he replied with a laugh.
"Arnold Schwarzenegger ran for governor of California and everybody still called him the Terminator," Charlamagne Tha God said.
"Donald Trump was the president, I still refer to him as the executive producer of 'Celebrity Apprentice," he said.
"You do know it will be your government name, but people are always gonna call you what they what they know you as," the 46-year-old former "Tha God's Honest Truth" host said.
Whichever name he might go with, the CEO of iHeartRadio's Black Effect Podcast Network clarified of any future political bid: "I'm not saying this is something that I want to do. I'm just simply saying I don't know, because I can tell you no right now, and God will be like, 'Ha. OK, I hear your good plan, but I got this plan for you.' So you just never know."