Kim Kardashian has proved that Taylor Swift DID in fact know about Kanye West’s lyrics for his hit song Famous.
The reality star, who is married to the Famous rapper, uploaded rough clips on her Snapchat story of Kanye speaking to Taylor about the lyrics, “For all my Southside n****s that know me best / I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex”, before the song was released.
After reading the line to Taylor, she said, “Go with whatever line you think is better… It’s obviously really tongue in cheek, either way … And I really appreciate you telling me about it, that’s really nice.”
Here is the entire conversation Taylor & Kanye had, judge for yourself. pic.twitter.com/InTjvPGKe3
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The news comes after Taylor released a statement through her rep after the song’s release, and 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. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, ‘I made that bitch famous’.”
However, Kim’s Snapchat revelation has now proved that Taylor did in fact speak to Kanye on the phone – and agreed to the lyric line by saying, “I don’t think anyone would listen to that and be like, ‘Oh that’s a real hit, she must be crying about it’.”
“You’ve got to tell the story the way that it happened to you and that you experienced it – like, you honestly didn’t know who I was before that … It doesn’t matter if I sold 7m of that album before you did that, which is what happened; you didn’t know who I was before then, it’s fine.”
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Taylor also implied that she would defend him in the media, by saying, “If people ask me about it, I think it would be great for me to be like, ‘Well he called me and told me the line before it came out. Joke’s on you guys; we’re fine.’
“You guys want to call this a feud, you want to call this throwing shade, but right after the song comes out I’m going to be on the Grammy red carpet and they’re going to ask me about it, and I’m going to be like, ‘he called me’.”
Taylor has since responded to Kim Snapchat exposé, and accused her and Kanye of “character assassination”.
That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim posts it on the Internet.
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“You don’t get to control someone’s emotional response to being called ‘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 I would love the song. I wanted us to have a friendly relationship,” she wrote.
The pop princess then pointed out that she never approved the lines, “I made that bitch famous”, and begged to be “excluded from this narrative, one that I have never asked to be a part of, since 2009.”
