Kanye West claims George Floyd’s killer didn’t really have knee on his neck
Tesla billionaire and potential Twitter owner Elon Musk appeared to tease a possible business collaboration with Kanye West, despite the rapper’s recent antisemitic rants and attacks on George Floyd.
On Monday, Musk tweeted out a meme that seemed to hint at potential team-up with West and Parler, the right-wing social network that the rapper entered into an agreement to acquire this week.
Hours later, that same tweet was deleted without comment from the Tesla chief executive.
Earlier, Parler CEO George Farmer appeared on Fox Business News to celebrate the rapper’s takeover of his right-wing social media platform, while defending him by saying that he’s “fallen victim to the cancellation narrative”.
“He’s obviously wanting to have a conversation that plenty of people want to have and I think that he is trying to engage in the free speech environment,” said the app chief executive and husband of Candace Owens.
The takeover by West, who is legally known as Ye, arrives on the heels of the Floyd family responding to the rapper after he sparked fresh controversy by claiming that the 46-year-old Black man died from fentanyl abuse and that a police officer’s knee “wasn’t even on his neck like that”.
