Kanye West’s tweetstorms have become the stuff of legend—he has publicly played out his beefs with Wiz Khalifa and Taylor Swift, among others, on the social network.
His latest target is house music producer deadmau5 (pronounced “deadmouse”). The performer, who wears a gigantic mouse head while DJing, accused Mr. West of music piracy in a series of tweets yesterday.
Mr. West’s first tweets about deadmau5 were just confused questions, mixed with yet another pitch for Tidal, the music service that is streaming his new album The Life of Pablo:
https://Twitter.com/kanyewest/status/705097867757752322
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/705098673852715010
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/705099712353968129
He then asked about the specifics of deadmau5’s love life, and whether the DJ could dress as a female mouse for North West’s birthday party:
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/705099806834823168
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/705099993347133440
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/705100180065034240
After a few tweets, Mr. West’s request became mildly threatening:
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/705100376622637060
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/705100610002096128
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/705100962772467712
The replies to Mr. West’s tweets from random trolls were almost better than the tweets themselves:
@kanyewest @deadmau5 pic.twitter.com/I79nlgAPId
— shitty watercolour (@SWatercolour) March 2, 2016
@kanyewest pic.twitter.com/RsH8xWfkDy
— The Levine Machine (@Eitanthegoalie) March 2, 2016
@kanyewest you have distracted from my creative process
— Dave Smith (@redletterdave) March 2, 2016
https://twitter.com/ImScampi/status/705100626557059072
@kanyewest what's that? Oh, just Kanye tweeting weird stuff again. pic.twitter.com/nF8YaTkqPV
— Eric Garland (@EricJGarland) March 2, 2016
Just goes to show: when you accuse Mr. West of something, he will embarrass you.
