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Elon Musk has a “real friend” in Kanye West.

Standing atop a desk while touring Detroit’s College for Creative Studies on Tuesday, West gave an impassioned defense of the Tesla chief executive — in what looked like a 2018 version of Tom Cruise manically proclaiming his love for Katie Holmes on “Oprah” — at a time when both men are fighting off increasingly vocal critics.

“Elon Musk — I don’t give a f— who’s over his house — leave that man the f— alone,” West pleaded in a brief clip posted on Twitter. “Leave that man the f— alone.”

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Beware of profanity in the clip:

kanye really came to our little art school and told us to leave elon musk alone pic.twitter.com/Y9ujjprUNS

— josh (@jkhco) October 2, 2018

West also appeared to refer to rapper Azalea Banks, who said she saw Musk tweet “while on acid” when she was hanging out at his house in August.

But that hasn’t been the only headline-grabbing moment from Musk — or from West — in recent months. The SEC hit Musk with a fraud lawsuit last week, stemming from a tweet he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private in August — rocketing Tesla’s stock price higher. Musk ultimately walked back talks of taking Tesla private. And the SEC ended up calling its lawsuit off, after Musk agreed to pay a $20 million fine and step down as Tesla’s chairman this past weekend.

West, meanwhile, has upset many of his fans — including Lana Del Rey — for sporting a “Make America Great Again” hat in support of President Trump. And after wearing his red MAGA hat on “Saturday Night Live,” West ruffled more feathers on Sunday when he called for the repeal the 13th amendment.

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“This represents good and America becoming whole again. We will no longer outsource to other countries,” he tweeted. “We build factories here in America and create jobs. We will provide jobs for all who are free from prisons as we abolish the 13th amendment. Message sent with love.”

No word yet on if there will be a Yeezy-Tesla collaboration.

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Pay Pal

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Tesla Motors

Instead of buying an island and living the high life after the PayPal sell, Musk went to work on getting the world off its dependency on oil. He founded Tesla Motors (now Tesla Inc.) in 2003, taking over an old Toyota-General Motors manufacturing plant in the Bay Area. The slick electric cars can travel 250 miles without a charge and sell for upwards of $100,000. Its "mass" car, the Model 3, is due out in 2018.
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Space X

Perhaps the project most important to Musk is SpaceX. Founded in 2002, the rocket company has worked with NASA on several launches. SpaceX made history when it developed "recycled" rockets that are able to be launched, landed and reused. Even more ambitious, Musk wants to send manned missions to Mars within the next decade... and colonize the red planet.
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Hyperloop

Musk frequently travels back and forth between NorCal and SoCal, and he wants to do it quickly. Enter Hyperloop, where passengers will be put in pods and shot through tubes connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles at speeds of up to 760 miles per hour. Musk sketched the concept in 2013, and it's now being pursued by a group in L.A. full-time.
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Neuralink

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The Boring Company

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SolarCity

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