Kanye West goes after Deadmau5: 'Do you do birthday parties?'

"I need you to perform at her party with specifically a minnie mouse dead-mow-five head."
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Kanye West goes after Deadmau5: 'Do you do birthday parties?'
Deadmau5 and Kanye West at the launch of Tidal in New York City on March 30, 2015. Credit: Kevin mazur/getty images

Kanye West has some super serious questions for deadmau5.

The rapper just went on a playful Twitter spree aimed at the DJ, joking about everything from his name ("dead-mow-five") to his signature mouse headpiece. 

The tiff was sparked by a picture West recently tweeted of his laptop, which showed the rapper illegally downloading Serum --  i.e. music software from Xfer Records, cofounded by deadmau5. The EDM artist went on a spree of his own yesterday, calling West a "dick" and joking about creating a Kickstarter to help West afford the $189 software.


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Well, West has finally caught wind of deadmau5's tweets, and he's got a few of his own. 



Side note: We're all going to start using "# hash tag #" now, right? 








After waking up to the tweets, the DJ hit back, calling West an "idiot" and suggesting he save his money "for a 4th grade education."



Shortly after -- after about 53 minutes -- deadmau5 went back to bed. 


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Yohana Desta

Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.

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