What Happened Between Azealia Banks And Elon Musk?

It was one of the greatest Instagram sagas in alt-pop history.

In 2018, rapper Azealia Banks was summoned to the home Grimes shared with her partner Elon Musk so that the pair could work on music together.

Banks and Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s lives have become entangled after Banks spent the weekend at one of Musk’s properties earlier in August and made a series of claims about the billionaire on social media.

Banks has publicly claimed on social media that Musk avoided her after inviting her to his home, misrepresented the situation to the media, and — most recently — took possession of her phone.

Musk, meanwhile, has denied many of Banks’ claims and apparently deleted his Instagram account, following her call out.

Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, is a Canadian musician and producer.

Boucher attended the Met Gala in early May with Musk. The pair had met on Twitter and been “quietly dating” for some time.

While Boucher was fated to bring Musk and Banks together, her relationship with the rapper goes back significantly longer than her romance with Musk.

In summer 2018, Boucher and Banks had plans to collaborate. In July, Boucher tweeted she had started a number of beats for Banks and just needed the rapper to visit Los Angeles to finish the work.

Banks said Musk seemed distracted over the weekend.

On Friday, August 10, Musk and Boucher left for Def Con, a hacking conference in Las Vegas. According to Musk and Banks, they did not see the other again for the rest of the weekend.

According to Banks, Boucher and Musk essentially went into hiding as Tesla sought funding. But, Banks said the couple kept stringing her along with the promise of collaborating on music.

“They bring me out there on the premise that we would hang and make music.”

On the evening of Sunday, August 12, the rapper posted on Instagram: “I waited around all weekend while grimes coddled her boyfriend.” In another story, she wrote that “staying in Elon musks house has been like a real like episode of ‘Get Out.’”

Banks told Business Insider she left Musk’s property late on Sunday.