Kanye West Trolled The Hell Out Of Deadmau5 On Twitter Today
By Rachel Cromidas in Arts & Entertainment on Mar 2, 2016 10:13PM
NEW YORK, NY - MARCH 30: (L-R) Madonna, Deadmau5, Kanye West, and JAY Z onstage at the Tidal launch event #TIDALforALL at Skylight at Moynihan Station on March 30, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for Roc Nation)
Kanye West knows Deadmau5. We know West is familiar with the acclaimed music producer, whose legal name is Joel Thomas Zimmerman, because the pair promoted the music streaming service Tidal together last March. Above is a photo of them, standing right next to each other.
But that hasn't stopped West from spitting out one of the most artfully clumsy takedowns of the masked EDM maker we've ever seen—in response to a Tweet from Deadmau5 suggesting that West illegally pirates music software, which in turn was in response to a Tweet from West about Sufjan Stevens, which showed a browser tab on his computer open to the whimsically-titled website Pirate Bay.
West set about trolling Deadmau5 for a couple hours Wednesday afternoon, and the results are beautiful. How do we know he's trolling Deadmau5? Because his Tweets read as if they were either meant to be a cheeky meta-commentary on hashtags, or actually written by a dad using voice-to-text on his smart phone. (And why can't they be both?)
@Deadmau5 … is this person’s name pronounced dead-mow-five?
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 2, 2016
# ok very serious question…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 2, 2016
# whose job is it to carry the head on the plane # hash tag # do you check the mickey mouse head or carry on # does it get hot?
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 2, 2016
# ok another super serious question ... is there a portable fan situation?
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 2, 2016
# hash tag you raised Tidal’s subscriptions by a whopping 🐭🐭🐭downloads
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 2, 2016
# I’m bored ### when you get married will your wife have a giant minnie mouse head? # This brightened up my day… thank you dead-mow-five
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 2, 2016
Do you do birthday parties?? My daughter loves Minnie mouse…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 2, 2016
can you please bring the minnie mouse head … not yours she specifically likes minnie mouse …
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 2, 2016
I need you to perform at her party with specifically a minnie mouse dead-mow-five head… not a mickey mouse dead-mow-five head.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 2, 2016
I’m very detailed oriented and I will know the difference so don’t try to just throw a bow on the original head…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 2, 2016
That's Kanye, for you. A very detail-oriented Twitter user who may or may not know how to pronounce Deadmau5.
[h/t Spin]