Kanye West received locked out of Twitter for making antisemitic feedback, and the app’s soon-to-be proprietor, Elon Musk, mentioned he had a ‘coronary heart’ to coronary heart with Ye about his phrases.
“Talked to [Kanye “Ye” West] as we speak,” Elon Musk, 51, tweeted on Oct. 10, days after Ye, 45, received locked out of Twitter for making antisemitic feedback on the app. Elon, who's poised to personal the social media platform, mentioned he “expressed my issues about [Ye’s] latest tweet,” referencing how Ye mentioned he was going “loss of life con 3” on the Jewish group. The SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO mentioned that he spoke together with his good friend and that “I feel he took [the concerns] to coronary heart.”
Talked to ye as we speak & expressed my issues about his latest tweet, which I feel he took to coronary heart
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 11, 2022
Elon first greeted Ye’s return to the app with pleasure. “Welcome again to Twitter, my good friend!” Elon tweeted on Oct. 8 in response to Ye’s first tweet in an extended, very long time. West has spent a lot of the latest years on Instagram however was restricted on that social media platform for sharing a dialog between him and Sean “Diddy” Combs. “Let’s cease enjoying these web video games,” mentioned Diddy, 52. “And don’t really feel threatened. You’ll be fantastic. Simply Love.” Ye responded that “this ain’t a recreation” and that he was going to “use you for instance to point out the Jewish folks that informed you to name me that nobody can threaten or affect me. I informed you this was conflict. Now gone get you some enterprise.”
Musk’s jubilation at West’s return to Twitter was really in response to a photograph Ye posted of him alongside Mark Zuckerberg and others. “Have a look at this Mark,” wrote Ye. “The way you gone kick me off Instagram? You was my n—-.”
Kanye and Elon have been pals since no less than 2011, in line with Insider. Ye swung by SpaceX, and Musk tweeted a photograph of them standing in entrance of what seems to be a SpaceX capsule. 9 years later, when a Twitter account reposted the picture, Elon tweeted that he had one “hell of a decade.”
Kanye stopped by the SpaceX rocket manufacturing facility as we speak. pic.twitter.com/6z7gHBn6
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 24, 2011
4 years after that assembly at SpaceX, Elon praised Kanye for the Time 100. “Kanye West could be the primary particular person to inform you he belongs on this listing,” wrote Musk. “The dude doesn’t imagine in false modesty, and he shouldn’t. Kanye’s perception in himself and his unbelievable tenacity—he carried out his first single together with his jaw wired shut—received him to the place he's as we speak. And he fought for his place within the cultural pantheon with a goal. … [H]e needs all people else to do the identical: to have interaction, query, push boundaries. Now that he’s a pop-culture juggernaut, he has the platform to attain simply that. He’s not afraid of being judged or ridiculed within the course of.”