Could Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian have picked a worse time to rehash their feud over that leaked phone call with Kanye West? Back in 2016, Kanye released a song called "Famous" as part of his The Life Of Pablo album and, on it, he utters the following line:
"I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that bitch famous"
During a leaked phone call from around the time of its release, Kanye West asks if Taylor Swift would be down to share a link to the record on her social media pages, thereby ending their beef and laughing about the entire situation. Unfortunately, things were seriously blown out of proportion (on both sides) and a four-year-long battle has resulted. With responses happening from both Taylor and Kim Kardashian in the last few days, the time has come for Swift's publicist to share her side of the story.
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After Kim called out Swift's publicist for lying about the phone call, the singer's representative shared her original statement, which read:
"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.'"
After all this time, whose side are you taking?
Kim K’s Comments Flooded By Taylor Swift Fans After Kanye Call Leaks
After Kanye West and Taylor Swift’s full phone call from 2016 in which they discussed his song, “Famous,” leaked, Taylor’s fans will not leave Kim Kardashian alone.
Taylor Swift‘s fans will not let Kim Kardashian rest after she and Kanye West were exposed for seemingly lying on Taylor back in 2016. The full phone conversation between Kanye and Taylor from four whole years ago—where he explained the bars he planned to spit about her on his song, “Famous”—leaked this weekend, and the newfound footage paints a very different picture of Kim and Kanye’s role in the reignited beef that followed that call. Initially, Kimye had “exposed” Taylor for lying about her knowledge of the song when Kim shared the footage she’d filmed of the phone call in which Kanye can very clearly be heard telling Taylor that he wants to mention her on the Life of Pablo single.
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Taylor always maintained that while he did run the lyric “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex” by her, he never told her about the following line—”Why? I made that b*tch famous”—which was the part that offended her. Taylor was labelled a snake and promptly when into hiding when the public turned on her, but now that the full conversation has leaked, it appears that she may have been telling the truth all along. Over the past 24 hours or so, #KanyeWestIsOver has been non-stop trending, and while some are still torn over who is truly at fault here, it’s clear that Taylor’s fans, the Swifties, are going to make Kimye pay for their “crimes.”
While Kanye may not have an Instagram account where Swifties can go off on him in the comments of his posts, Kim, as the most high profile Kardashian, is very active on social media. Kim has only shared one post since the whole ordeal began, but Taylor’s army of supporters have made sure to fill her comment section to capacity. On the throwback shot of Kim and her second oldest child, Saint, Swifties called her and Kanye liars and dragged Kim for her complicity in “ruining” Taylor’s reputation.
“This is a screenshot of Keeping Up With The Kardashian’s. Look at what a little chunk Saint was!” Kim wrote in the caption. “OMG My baby!!!!!! I miss him this small!!!!” While a few of the top comments are positive, the rest of them are not, as plenty of users commented the hashtag, #taylorswifttoldthetruth. “Kimye is so cancelled lmao,” one user wrote. “I have no patience for liars or people who are cruel to others. #boycottkimandkanye,” another stated.
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Others alluded to Taylor’s album, Reputation, that references the incident heavily. “I don’t trust nobody and nobody trusts me,” a fan wrote, quoting Taylor’s song “Look What You Made Me Do” off the album. “I’ll be the actress starring in your bad dreams.” One fan even thanked Kim for driving Taylor to make Reputation in the first place. “Girl thanks for Reputation, the best album ever made but you are still going to burn in Hell,” they said. It appears that Kim has been removing a bunch of comments of a similar nature, which she also got called out for. “How many staff do you have to delete comments for you right now?” asked one user. “And deleting all the comments won’t stop people from knowing and remembering the truth,” another wrote. “While it’s nice to have money, it’s better to have a clear mind.” Whew!
Kanye Or Taylor?: Internet Debates Who The Real Snake Is
After Kanye West and Taylor Swift's full phone call in 2016 about his controversial "Famous" lyrics leaked, the Internet is arguing over who was really in the wrong.
When the full phone conversation between Kanye West and Taylor Swift from 2016, in which he told her about his plans to namedrop her in his then-unreleased song, "Famous," recently leaked, the Internet went into a frenzy. The extended footage of the call, filmed by Kim Kardashian, puts forward some new evidence in Taylor's favour, seemingly proving that she never lied about what Kanye did and didn't tell her about what would be included in the song.
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Way back then, Taylor inferred she was offended by Kanye rapping, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that b*tch famous" on "Famous," and Kim proceeded to expose her for lying by releasing a snippet of the phone call, where Kanye can be heard giving Taylor a heads up about mentioning her in the song. Taylor always maintained that she was aware of the "sex" line but not the "b*tch" line, and this newfound clip seems to support that claim.
The leaked footage has got the Internet divided, with #KanyeWestIsOverParty trending on Twitter as a result. Swifties are purporting Taylor's innocence, Kanye fans are insisting that the clip proves nothing, and everyone else is attempting to approach the situation rationally. On the one hand, some feel that the full conversation proves that Taylor told the truth from the beginning: she was only ever told about the "sex" line.
However, this full-length clip still doesn't make a difference to others, who have decided to stand by Kanye.
Kanye West & Taylor Swift’s 2016 Phone Call Has Leaked In Full
Kanye West and Taylor Swift's infamous phone call from 2016 discussing "Famous" has leaked, and it doesn't make Kanye nor Kim Kardashian look so good.
Kanye West and Taylor Swift discussing the lyrics to his 2016 track "Famous" over the phone, which was famously caught on camera by Kim Kardashian and later shared with the public to expose Taylor's hypocrisy, has leaked in full, and it looks like Kim and Kanye are the ones who need to be exposed. If you're unfamiliar with this decade-long beef, you may be living under a rock. The Taylor-Kanye feud is one of modern day pop culture's finest gems, and in 2016, Kim Kardashian was famously thrown into the mix as Kanye's partner in crime (and, of course, his wife).
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After Taylor and Kanye finally made up following his acceptance speech interruption at the 2009 VMAs, it wasn't until about four years ago that their feud was reignited when Ye dropped the lead single "Famous" off of Life of Pablo in 2016. The lines, "I think me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that b*tch famous" caused quite the controversy, and Taylor went on to play the victim (as usual). However, Kim Kardashian went on to share a snippet of the the phone conversation in which Kanye first told Taylor about the song, exposing Taylor for lying about not knowing that she would be mentioned on it. Here are the original clips of the phone call that Kim leaked back in 2016:
Taylor maintained that she only knew about the "sex" line and not the "b*tch" part, but she was deemed a "snake" by the public and promptly went into "hiding." She returned in 2017 with her comeback album, Reputation, where she took a few jabs at Kanye, and the rest is history...
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Or so we thought. The full conversation between Kanye and Taylor has leaked online after all these years, and it turns out Taylor wasn't exactly lying after all. Kanye only actually tells her about the "controversial" line that jokes about them having sex, and never informs her that he'll be referring to her as "that b*tch" or claiming to have made her famous on the track.