If you thought the feud between B.o.B. and Neil deGrasse Tyson over whether the Earth was flat was going to be this week’s only weird Twitter battle, think again.
This afternoon Kanye West tweeted a cryptic diss at one of his rap rivals:
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692421786605084673
Wiz Khalifa tweeted back an equally strange response, referencing the often-changing title of Mr. West’s latest album:
KK is weed fool. Reason's why your not wavy. Go bacc to Swish. https://t.co/7OT4xiQa5V
— Taylor Gang World Leader (@wizkhalifa) January 27, 2016
Mr. West then took it up a notch, accusing Wiz Khalifa of plagiarizing from another famous hip-hop artist:
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692421878678491137
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692422048933658628
Wiz fired back saying he had better things to do than wait for Mr. West’s new music:
I been smashed the idea of that album even existing. I got joints to roll @kanyewest
— Taylor Gang World Leader (@wizkhalifa) January 27, 2016
But Mr. West was just getting started, firing off a strange tweetstorm of compliments and insults at Wiz:
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692423693507653634
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692424248103718916
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692424331893293056
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692424444363608069
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692426817903403008
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692427021541101569
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692427064025223169
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692427829108170756
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692427864440967168
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692427947718766592
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692428314833739776
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692428367203819524
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692428502801518593
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692428614185385986
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692428755965333504
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692428825062461444
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692435254431199233
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692435356029997056
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692435575836676097
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692435575836676097
Several more of Mr. West’s tweets were personal attacks about a stripper and child—they were in reference to Amber Rose, the mother of Wiz’s son Sebastian and an ex-girlfriend of both Wiz and Mr. West. Some of the insults were actually lines from Mr. West’s song “Gold Digger”:
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692426891857432580
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692426982273998849
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692428014030864384
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692428207169998848
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692428437496029184
Of course Mr. West threw in some self-promotion:
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692428877608517632
And he ended by vowing to delete the tweets as a goodwill gesture:
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692446402811686913
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/692446531404877827
Even Khloe Kardashian chimed in:
Yeezy for president!!!!! @kanyewest #Waves
— Khloé (@khloekardashian) January 27, 2016
While Ms. Rose posted an epic takedown of Mr. West:
Awww @kanyewest are u mad I'm not around to play in ur asshole anymore? #FingersInTheBootyAssBitch☝
— Amber Rose (@DaRealAmberRose) January 27, 2016
Beyond his early tweets, Wiz has not responded to Mr. West—though he was momentarily pronounced dead on Wikipedia during the tweetstorm.
One thing’s for sure: if any diss tracks come out of this feud, they’ll be better than Dr. Tyson’s.
