Kanye West is not the most loved celebrity right now — and even that’s putting it lightly. His most recent statements aren’t likely to win him new fans or, for that matter, make people take him seriously again. In 2020, when Kanye West mounted a feeble and much-ridiculed Presidential campaign, he and Tesla CEO and current owner of X (former Twitter) Elon Musk were thick as thieves, as the saying goes. At that point, they had been running in the same circles for years, and Musk would occasionally speak about their relationship on social media, even endorsing him publicly as the future U.S. President. For the past couple of years, though, Ye has been struggling with personal stuff, including a very public and bitter divorce and mental health issues.
Whatever is happening behind closed doors has seeped into his public life in the most unexpected ways and climaxed with the anti-Semitic messages he posted to social media, which eventually put an end to his friendship with Elon Musk. So far, Musk has banned Ye from X on two separate occasions, both times for hate and discriminatory talk. While the rapper’s account has since been restored, he remains inactive here. But it sounds like he’s looking to change that – or, at the very least, change the status of his relationship with Musk. As long as it happens on his (Ye’s) terms, this time.
Kanye reached out to Elon via messages, and he wants the world to know it, so he asked one of his collaborators to «get this out to the public.» It’s basically Kanye trying to twist Musk’s arm into issuing some kind of statement because the message urges him to take sides in the custody battle with his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian. Celebrity gossip aside, the rapper also tries to make two other arguments in his very specific way. The first one would be that he is not bipolar, as he previously said, but has «signs of autism from my car accident.» The second is that Musk should stop leeching on Ye’s fame, which is hilarious given the kind of following Musk has. «You can’t watch Kim keep my kids from me. And not say anything publicly and then call yourself my friend so I can bring my audience to your struggling platform,» Ye writes. Count on Kanye to deliver so many insults in so few words, masquerading as an olive branch meant to mend a broken friendship. We’re not doctors, so we’ll refrain from commenting on his autism claims, except to note that he said once before he might be borderline autistic («kinda like Rainman, but that’s my superpower,» to paraphrase his exact words). We’ll also note that the causes of autism are unknown but believed to be a combination of genetic and nongenetic environmental factors.