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In February 2016, Kanye West released the song “Famous,” which featured the instantly controversial lyric: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b***h famous.” In response to the internet’s shock, West claimed (via Cosmopolitan), “I called Taylor and had a hour long convo with her about the line and she thought it was funny and gave her blessings.
However, Swift’s team stepped in, explaining she was “not aware” he planned to call her the B-word. Per E! News, the singer’s rep said, “Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single ‘Famous’ on her Twitter account. She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message.”
Suffice to say, there was plenty of confusion and some believed Swift was playing the victim, including Kim Kardashian who told GQ in June 2016 that Swift “totally approved” the lyric and that she “completely dissed my husband just to play the victim again.” A month later, Kardashian got involved again by dropping a Snapchat video of a phone call, where Swift seemingly gave the green light to West directly.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9whRaPgfLs?v=x9whRaPgfLs]
As a result, social media was flooded with snake emojis, but Swift maintained that she didn’t know West would call her a “b***h” and she just wanted to be “excluded from this narrative.” Well, now that narrative continues, because there’s extra footage from that internet-breaking call.
Written by: Nicki
