The beef between the two began brewing yesterday evening (March 1) when West tweeted a screenshot of his computer screen in the studio, which included tabs open to Sufjan Stevens' "Death with Dignity," a Pirate Bay search window, and a search for Xfer Records' Serum audio software program. Being a co-founder of Xfer Records himself, the screencap found its way back to deadmau5, who didn't take kindly to West pirating his piece of software.
To almost no one's surprise, West took to his keyboard once more to poke fun at the producer's stylized stage name and costume. "Is this person's name pronounced dead-mow-five?" he tweeted. No stranger to Twitter beef himself, we wouldn't expect deadmau5 to stay silent on this one.
In the meantime, read through the series of tweets below.
Day 3 pic.twitter.com/zPw0eFEFGF
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 2, 2016
What the fuck @kanyewest ... Can't afford serum? Dick. pic.twitter.com/8B2aiyORZs
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) March 2, 2016
@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
I want to stream you performing in a Minnie Mouse head on @Tidal
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) March 2, 2016
UPDATE: During Kanye's tirade, deadmau5 was apparently having a nap, but he's since woken up and responded with some very childish retorts. Peep his tweets below.
Imma let you finish.... But you should probably be saving the money for a 4th grade education. https://t.co/1yqBoIg1Z1
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) March 2, 2016
Relax, I just woke up.
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) March 2, 2016
I can out idiot an idiot. It's what I do.
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) March 2, 2016
No shit. All I'm seeing is a shit attempt to derail it. https://t.co/UDmcU9AvsU
— deadmau5 (@deadmau5) March 2, 2016
@kanyewest perform at your own daughters parties. You're a bigger fuckin clown than anyone I know.
— dead mow cinco (@deadmau5) March 2, 2016