FUNNY LOG FLUME PHOTOS SERIES

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What Would Diplo Do?, however, was not originally conceived as a series for satirizing electronic music excesses or a burnishing bad-boy shenanigans: The origin of the project was an advertisement urging people to buy tickets for Diplo’s annual Mad Decent Block Party last year. There’s a similar wink behind the name of his label, Mad Decent, and the compilation title Random White Dude Be Everywhere. It’s a smooth bit of reputation-jiu-jitsu for Diplo, where knowing self-deprecation subtly leads to self-aggrandizement: His life is so ridiculous and cool, but he’s aware of it, so he makes fun of it – and therefore becomes that much cooler. So it’s not surprising that the incident resurfaces in the debut episode of the new Viceland series What Would Diplo Do?, in which James Van Der Beek of Dawson’s Creek fame plays the superstar DJ as an arena-filling bozo – albeit as an EDM dude who you can’t help but love despite his evident shortcomings and impulsive bro-behavior. This now-deleted tweet represents an apt distillation of Diplo’s truculent online sparring – he has also tangled with David Guetta, Flo Rida, Portishead’s Geoff Barrow and Lorde on the platform.

So Diplo took aim on social media and let fly: “ young and rich and a great musician … Use that to your advantage … Don’t be such a pompous cornball loser also I fucked your girl.” Case in point: In March of 2016, Diplo – who made $23 million that year, according to Forbes – decided that another producer, Zedd ( $24 million) had plagiarized the work of the young Australian beat-maker Flume. In the macho world of superstar DJs (and irate presidents), Twitter is the battleground, the premier forum for airing grievances about the competition.

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