Elon Musk responds to Ye’s ‘compliment’ that he’s a 'half-Chinese genetic hybrid’

Ye, the American rapper formerly known as Kanye West, called new Twitter CEO Elon Musk "half-Chinese" and a “genetic hybrid” in an Instagram post on Sunday.

Ye, 45, asked his over 18.4 million followers if he is the only one who thinks Musk, 51, could be "half Chinese."

“Am I the only one who thinks Elon could be half-Chinese?” West asked. “Have you ever seen his pics as a child?”

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“Take a Chinese genius and mate them with South African super model and we have an Elon,” the rapper continued. "I say an Elon because they probably made 10 to 30 Elon’s and he’s the first genetic hybrid that stuck."

Musk is the son of Maye Musk, a former CoverGirl model, and South African entrepreneur Errol Musk, who reportedly once owned half of an emerald mine in Zambia in southern Africa.

Although it was unclear what pushed Ye to post about Musk on Instagram, the new Twitter CEO took to his platform on Monday to comment on the rapper’s Instagram post, saying, “I take that as a compliment!”

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