In the latest installment of the beef between Taylor Swift, Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian, Kardashian posted a video on Snapchat on Sunday of an old call between West and Swift, in which West appears to tell Swift that he’s going to rap about her and suggests that they should have sex; Swift gives her approval and thanks West for asking her in advance.
However, when the song Famous came out earlier this year, the entire line was: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex, why? I made that bitch famous.” Swift acknowledged having a call with West, but said she never gave approval to call her a bitch.
In the Snapchat video, West slowly reads the lyric to the song, ending with “sex”.
Swift responds: “I’m like this close to overexposure,” then says “I mean it’s like a compliment kind of,” with a giggle.
“I want things that make you feel good. I don’t wanna do rap that makes people feel bad,” says West. “I just felt I had a responsibility to you as a friend, you know. Uh, I mean, thanks for being like, so cool about it.”
Apparently giving her approval, Swift tells West to “go with whatever line you think is better. It’s obviously very tongue in cheek either way. And I really appreciate you telling me about it, that’s really nice”.
Now, she says it’s not so nice.
In an Instagram response, Swift said the audio actually proves she never gave permission for him to call her a “bitch” and calls the video “character assassination”.
“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 never happened. You don’t get to control someone’s emotional response to being called ‘that bitch’ in front of the entire world,” she wrote.
“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. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did. While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye on the phone call, you cannot ‘approve’ a song you haven’t heard. Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination. I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that I have never asked to be a part of, since 2009.”
