An old conversation between Kanye West and Taylor Swift about the song “Famous” has surfaced online.
In the clip, ‘Ye asks the pop star for permission to use the line, “For all my Southside niggas that know me best, I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that bitch famous” — only, he left out the words ‘that bitch.’
Kanye eventually stumbled around the question, “What if later in the song I was also to have said, ‘I made her famous?'” to which Swifts asked, “Did you say that?”
“Yes, it might have happened,” Ye replied. Swift responded, “Well, what am I going to do about it? It’s kind of like, whatever at this point. You gotta tell the story the way it happened to you and the way that you experienced it. You honestly didn’t know who I was before that.
“It doesn’t matter if I sold seven million of that album before you did that, which is what happened. You didn’t know who I was before that. It’s fine. But yeah, I can’t wait to hear it.”
The full conversation is wildly different from the one Kim Kardashian leaked in 2016. It’s now painfully obvious it was edited to make it sound like Swift approved of the line.
“I think this is a really cool thing to have,” Kanye said about the lyric.
Swift replied, “I know, it’s like a compliment, kind of [laughs]. Yeah, I mean, what’s dope about the line is it’s very tongue-in-cheek either way. And I really appreciate you telling me about it, that’s really nice. For you to ask me if I’d be OK with it, I really appreciate it. I’d never expect you to tell me about a line in your song.”
“Relationships are more important than punchlines,” Ye concluded.
Following the “Famous” song, Swift retreated from the public spotlight, a period that was captured in the recent Netflix doc about Swift, Miss Americana.
In 2016, she addressed the controversy, writing, “Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me ‘that bitch’ in his song? It doesn’t exist because it doesn’t happen. You don’t get to control someone’s emotional response to be calling ‘that bitch’ in front of the entire world.
“Of course I wanted to like the song. I wanted to believe Kanye when he told me that I would love the song. I wanted us to have a friendly relationship.”
As a result of the newly surfaced clip, #KanyeWestPartyIsOver is trending on Twitter. Naturally, the platform exploded with reactions to this revelation.
Kim Kardashian Leaks Footage Proving Kanye West Got Taylor Swift's Permission For "Famous", Taylor Swift Responds
Some Swift fans exposed other celebrities who supported (and didn’t support) Kanye at the time, while others accused both Kardashian and Ye of simply being terrible people.
Check out some of the reactions below.
Taylor swift fans in shambles right now, lol! Nobody cares in real life. Fuck her and Kanye.
Damn he really obsessed with Drake
You’re really obsessed with this obsession lol
Look at the song “lift yourself”. Drake wanted that beat haha. So Kanye used it to troll him, making the “scoopity poop” song. Kanye is pretty funny actually.
Not for nothing, but Taylor basically tells him do whatever you think is best and tell it the way he feels. She was ok with him telling her she owes / they might have sex. Shes ok with him saying he made her famous. She should have straight up said NO because those lines were all blatantly disrespecting her not having a 20+ minute conversation giggling and laughing about being disrespected. They are both at fault. Taylor ended up growing a spine and Kanye found God. End of story
He’s a rapper lol. This offends the same people who listen to the modern trash rap on the radio that demeans everyone on earth.
Taylor signed a deal, made millions, then bitches about the deal she signed (cough De La Soul/ Megan the Jackass cough cough). Anyone who signs a deal and attempts to go back on it is ridiculous. Be an adult. Kanye has mental illness issues. Clearly. I wish dude would just make beats and ugly clothing, then shut his ass up.
She didn’t tell her millions exes that they’d be part of a song either.
He should’ve never asked or apologized. That’s never been how hip hop works.
This is it, Kanye’s prolific career will never recover from this minor blip that nobody will hear about. Kanye is cancelled party.
This is so lame. What rapper asks a pop star if their lyrics are okay. Plus, Kanye sounds like one of those amped up crackheads you know, and he sounds corny as hell all the time. Dude ain’t made a hot song in 13 years at least.
13 years? Good life was 10 years ago… That’s a classic for me. Although I like Kanyes new music sometimes, I’ll generally agree though. He hit his prime, as most rappers do.
Good life was 13 yes ago.lol
These white folks be listening to Kanye and be like this fool got in the acid.
What’s with all these tweets from 12-year-old girls? Do they really warrant an article?
Twitter also believed Trump was going to lose in 2016, Bernie was going to be this years nominee, Brexit was going to be reversed and the “Joker” movie was going to flop.
Twitter is wrong about everything. It’s just an irrelevant circle jerk echo chamber of unpopular opinions the rest of the world laughs at. I bet Kanye sales actually increase from this.
Mange said God showed up and showed out when he got a substantial refund from the irs.If I had a chance to talk to him i sure would like to ask him how come God has not showed up and out against covid19
So, this makes Taylor swift fans attack Kanye, not his actions at the award shows decades ago haha? It’s all just entertainment. If Kanye is serious about getting into religion, he must have realized how he himself has been used for his career to destroy the moral fiber of America… Perhaps he feels guilty about his past, and is returning to his roots, before he made it big? Taylor Swift is also used to destroy the moral fabric of America. Todays rebel is yesterday’s goody two shoes, bad today’s typical is scummy. I’d like to see a return to higher morals, higher standards, less degeneracy, ect…. Nobody can deny hiphop has been used to help destroy storing black family units. Glamorizing gang culture, murder, misogony, hatred, evil, Satanism, drug use and dealing,….. And more. I like gangster rap myself, but what’s around today is just dirty and shitty for the fuck of it. There aren’t great stories and lessons, just glorification of being a terrible human being.
The gangster rap of yesterday was just as shitty as today’s music,you sound like your grandma.Dr.Dres the Chronic is unlistenable today.There weren’t too many great stories or lessons back then just the glorification of terrible human beings and I like gangster rap also.What bothers me about Kanye West is how he actually belived that a God would give a shi t about him getting a tax refund.
Kanye West said God showed…………..
Lol the Democrats are doing this to make Kanye look bad because of his support for Trump, it’s a diversion and distraction away from Trump’s leadership during the COVID crisis, they’d rather us debate 4 yr old celebrity phone calls then hear about how Trump’s poignance & optimism is bringing us through a crisis.
TL DR, who is this Taylor Swift tho? Never heard of her. Is she like the new Izzy?
Imagine the hip-hop “journalist” who put all their effort into a Taylor Swift stan moment on twitter, we all know why they have it out for him tho
This isn’t the full video
Bottomline she knew what the hook was gonna be