Celebrity Dirt

Kanye West speaks on stage at the "Kanye West and Steven Smith in Conversation with Mark Wilson" at the on November 07, 2019 in New York City. Pete Davidson smokes as he arrives at TUBI's "The Freak Brothers" experience at Fred Segal on December 06, 2021 in Los Angeles, California.

Kanye West has mocked Pete Davidson for deleting his Instagram account, after rejoining the social media platform for only a week. He first left the social media platform in May 2020. On Wednesday morning (February 23), Davidson, 28, shared a clip from Martin Scorsese’s 1982 film The King of Comedy, appearing to “shade” Kanye. The Saturday Night Live star shared a clip of Rupert Pupkin (played by Robert De Niro) saying in the film, “Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.” The comments section of the video was quickly flooded with messages about Pete, with many users claiming that he was clearly “firing sneaky shots” at Ye, 44.

Yesterday, West shared a screenshot of Davidson’s now-deactivated Instagram profile, accompanied with a caption that read: “Ran Skete off the gram Tell your mother I changed your name for life”

GALLERY: Kanye West And Pete Davidson’s Shadiest Quotes About Each Other