Kim Kardashian posts Snapchat video of Taylor Swift calling Kanye West 'Famous' lyric a compliment
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Your support makes all the difference.Kim Kardashian has posted some incriminating video of Taylor Swift appearing to sign off on Kanye West's "Famous" lyrics.
Last month, Kardashian West told GQ that she had the footage in her possession and on Sunday night she posted the recorded cellphone conversation. Kanye raps the line in the video: “To all my southside n****s that know me best, I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.”
“I know, it's like a compliment, kind of,” Swift says. “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.”
“I just had a responsibility to you as a friend," Kanye admits. "Thanks for being so cool about it.”
“For you to ask me if I'd be okay with it, I really appreciate it," Swift says. "I'd never expect you to tell me about a line in your song."
“Relationships are more important than punchlines, you know,” Kanye adds.
Swift also told West she would play along and tell the media that she knew about the lyrics the entire time.
However, after West played the album for the first time at a listening party in Madison Square Garden in February, a spokesperson for Swift condemned the lyrics.
“Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his “Famous” on her Twitter account," the statement read. "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.”
She also slammed the lyrics while accepting the Album of the Year Grammy award.
“There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame,” Swift said. “But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you're going, you'll look around and know that it was you.”
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Naturally, most fans completely lost it and reacted to the video on Twitter.
Read the entire transcript of the phone call below:
Kanye West: OK, dope. You still got the Nashville number?
Taylor Swift: I still have the nashville area code but i had to change it…
Kanye: For all my south side n****s that know me best, I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.
Taylor: I'm like this close to overexposure.
Kanye: Oh well this one is, uh — I think this is a really cool thing to have.
Taylor: I know! I mean it's like a compliment kind of.
Kanye: What I give a fuck about is just you as a person, and as a friend.
Taylor: That's sweet.
Kanye: I want things that make you feel good. I don't wanna do rap that makes people feel bad.
Taylor: Um, ya. I mean, 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!
Kanye: Yeah. I just felt I had a responsibility to you as a friend, you know. I mean, thanks for being so cool about it.
Taylor: Aw, thanks! Yeah I really appreciate it. Like, the heads up is so nice!
Taylor: … things without like even asking or seeing if I'd be OK with it. And I just really appreciate it. I never would've expect you to tell me about a line in your song.
Taylor: And then the flowers that you sent me, I Instagrammed a picture of them and it's the most Instagram likes I've ever gotten. It was like 2.7...
Kanye: Relationships are more important than punchlines, you know.
Taylor: Yeah. I mean, I don't think anybody would listen to that and be like, Oh, that's a real diss. Like, she must be crying about…
Taylor: You gotta tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way you experienced it. Like you obviously didn't know who I was before that.
Taylor: It doesn't matter if I sold 7 million of that album before you did that, which is what happened. You didn't know who I was before that.
Taylor: … that I can make these things happen and I have the ideas to do it and I create these things and concepts. And, like, I'm always gonna respect you.
Taylor: And I'm really glad you had the respect to call me that and tell me that as a friend, about the song. It's just a really cool thing to do, and a really good show of friendship. So thank you.
Kanye: Thank you too.
Taylor: And you know, if people ask me about it, I think it would be great for me to be like, Look, he called me and told me about the line before it came out. Like, joke's on you guys, we're fine.
Taylor: You guys wanna call this a feud, you wanna call this throwing shade. But right after the song comes out I'm gonna be on a Grammy red carpet and they're gonna ask me about it and I'm gonna be like, he called me.
Taylor: … awesome that you're so outspoken and it's gonna be like, Yea, she does, it made her famous! It's more provocative to say, Might still have sex.
Taylor: … it's not. It doesn't matter to me. there's not one that hurts my feelings and one that doesn't.