Elon Musk Reveals He’s Spoken To Kanye West After Anti-Semitic Tweet: I ’Expressed My Concerns’

“Talked to [Kanye “Ye” West] today,” Elon Musk, 51, tweeted connected Oct. 10, days aft Ye, 45, got locked retired of Twitter for making antisemitic comments connected the app. Elon, who is poised to ain the societal media platform, said helium “expressed my concerns astir [Ye’s] caller tweet,” referencing however Ye said helium was going “death con 3” connected the Jewish community. The SpaceX laminitis and Tesla CEO said that helium spoke with his person and that “I deliberation helium took [the concerns] to heart.”

Talked to ye contiguous & expressed my concerns astir his caller tweet, which I deliberation helium took to heart

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 11, 2022

Elon archetypal greeted Ye’s instrumentality to the app with joy. “Welcome backmost to Twitter, my friend!” Elon tweeted connected Oct. 8 successful effect to Ye’s archetypal tweet successful a long, agelong time. West has spent astir of the caller years connected Instagram but was restricted connected that societal media platform for sharing a speech betwixt him and Sean “Diddy” Combs. “Let’s halt playing these net games,” said Diddy, 52. “And don’t consciousness threatened. You’ll beryllium fine. Just Love.” Ye responded that “this ain’t a game” and that helium was going to “use you arsenic an illustration to amusement the Jewish radical that told you to telephone maine that nary 1 tin endanger oregon power me. I told you this was war. Now gone get you immoderate business.”

Musk’s jubilation astatine West’s instrumentality to Twitter was really successful effect to a photograph Ye posted of him alongside Mark Zuckerberg and others. “Look astatine this Mark,” wrote Ye. “How you gone footwear maine disconnected Instagram? You utilized to beryllium my n—-.”

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Kanye and Elon person been friends since astatine slightest 2011, according to Insider. Ye swung by SpaceX, and Musk tweeted a photograph of them lasting successful beforehand of what appears to beryllium a SpaceX capsule. Nine years later, erstwhile a Twitter relationship reposted the photo, Elon tweeted that helium had 1 “hell of a decade.”

Kanye stopped by the SpaceX rocket mill today. pic.twitter.com/6z7gHBn6

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 24, 2011

Four years aft that gathering astatine SpaceX, Elon praised Kanye for the Time 100. “Kanye West would beryllium the archetypal idiosyncratic to archer you helium belongs connected this list,” wrote Musk. “The dude doesn’t judge successful mendacious modesty, and helium shouldn’t. Kanye’s content successful himself and his unthinkable tenacity—he performed his archetypal azygous with his jaw wired shut—got him to wherever helium is today. And helium fought for his spot successful the taste pantheon with a purpose. … [H]e wants everybody other to bash the same: to engage, question, propulsion boundaries. Now that he’s a pop-culture juggernaut, helium has the level to execute conscionable that. He’s not acrophobic of being judged oregon ridiculed successful the process.”