Kanye West defends Elon Musk at College for Creative Studies in Detroit

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• Kanye West hopped on a table while
  visiting Detroit’s College for Creative Studies on
  Tuesday and demanded that people leave Elon Musk “the
  f**k alone.”
• West appeared to be addressing Musk’s recent legal
  troubles with the SEC — the Tesla CEO was forced to pay a $20
  million fine and step down as Tesla’s chairman for at least
  three years as part of a settlement, though he’ll remain
  CEO. 
• A brief clip of the incident was recorded by a student
  in the classroom and posted on Twitter.

Kanye West’s soapbox took the form of a classroom table, as he
pleaded with his audience of art students to go easy on Tesla CEO
Elon Musk. A brief clip of the incident was recorded by a student
and posted on Twitter.

During a visit to Detroit’s College for Creative Studies on
Tuesday, the notorious rapper and designer hopped on a table and
yelled that people need to “leave that man the f**k
alone, I don’t care who’s over at his house, leave that man
the f**k alone.”

When he wasn’t on the table, West spent his time at the college
looking through various student projects, according to posts on
social media. 

West appeared to be referencing Musk’s recent legal
troubles with the SEC — as part of a settlement stemming from a
fraud investigation, Musk was
forced to pay a $20 million fine and step down as Tesla’s
chairman for at least three years. The investigation began after
Musk tweeted that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private
at $420 per share, after which Tesla’s stock jumped more than 6
percent. 

The reference to “who’s over at his house” is likely a
reference to rapper Azealia Banks, who became intertwined in the
saga when
she claimed that she was in Musk’s home while he was “scrounging
for investors” for the take-private deal that he had
indicated was all but finalized. 

This isn’t the only strange behavior that’s landed West in
the news lately, however — in the past few weeks alone he’s
created headlines by saying the 13th amendment, which banned
slavery, should be abolished; showing
off a custom-made “Make America Great Again” hat; and

going on a pro-Trump rant while at the Saturday Night Live
studios.