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Mike Dean has spent the past three decades working with rap legends like Kanye West, Jay Z, Scarface, Pimp C and Bun B, E-40 as well as pop superstars like Beyonce, Madonna and The Weeknd. The man has put in more than enough work to warrant some name recognition, but that’s still not stopping people online from confusing him for a English Premiere League referee with the same exact name.
The EPL is the world’s foremost soccer league and as such it’s also the most popular and most watched sports league on earth, and as such referee Mike Dean — one of the league’s most demonstrative and renown refs — has attained his own level of fame. Still, stateside at least, Kanye producer Mike Dean is the more popular of the two, and he finally seems a little miffed by the whole thing. So he did what any respectable person would do: He started tweeting. So Mike’s thumbs got to work and he fired back at the whole mixup with the exact mix of smart ass and humor that you’d expect from a Kanye West associate.
On Monday he began replying to the innumerable cases of mistaken identity.
Wrong mike dean https://t.co/DfbOA4p9LU
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) January 2, 2017
And gradually his replies became more volatile.
I AM MOT A SOCCER REFF U LIMEY FUCK. DO YOUR RESEARCH. https://t.co/P2lSYXKBLU
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) January 3, 2017
And more english.
BOLLOCKS. https://t.co/88q4P3HyHI
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) January 3, 2017
But Mike was just having some fun, something he has kept up all week.
Just fucking around https://t.co/RUhQoVb5c5
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) January 3, 2017
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) January 3, 2017
Wrong mike dean u dumb fuck https://t.co/4SD0BgWBh7
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) January 5, 2017
Soccer is wack https://t.co/CeYVj8cjrQ
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) January 5, 2017
Sports are a waste of human energy. Put all thT money and time into saving the planet from trump and shit https://t.co/OQnHqspKEC
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) January 5, 2017
manchester united are amazing i am sure they will win every game i ever ref #ManchesterUnited https://t.co/dpb8aB78d9
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) January 6, 2017
Fuck me lads, stop being so bitter! Manchester United are the only club in England worthy of gracing the same field as me and you lot had
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) January 6, 2017
better start to recognize, that without Manchester United and the Refereeing Master that is Mike Dean the Premier League would be nothing!!
— MIKE DEAN! #MWA (@therealmikedean) January 6, 2017