Kim Kardashian showed the receipts on Taylor Swift & Kanyes conversation
Last year, Taylor Swift and Kanye West finally buried the hatchet. She introduced his VMA Video Vanguard thing, and they also had lunch together, plus he sent her flowers. They seemed totally fine with each other for months. Then Yeezy debuted his new album, The Life of Pablo, in February of this year. There’s a song called “Famous” on the album which includes the lyrics “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why, I made that bitch famous / God damn / I made that bitch famous.” In the immediate outcry and drama with those lyrics, Kanye insisted that Taylor was totally fine with it, that he sought and received her approval. Team Yeezy even said that Swifty got the joke. But Team Swifty came down like a hammer. This is the original statement from Taylor’s spokesperson to People Mag:
“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.'”
Kanye would throw multiple hissy fits in the weeks that followed, and while I thought he needed to let it go, I also sort of believed his story. Because even in that first statement from Taylor’s spokesperson, there’s a contradiction big enough to drive a truck full of Yeezy sneakers through. Kanye’s wife Kim Kardashian also took Taylor Swift to task in last month’s GQ cover interview, saying that oh, right, Kanye has the receipts on the phone call between himself and Taylor because he was filming a making-of-the-album documentary at the time and there’s video of the call. I was actually hoping that Kim and Kanye would show the receipts at some point. And I got my wish! Kim posted the video on Snapchat. Two part video of Kanye & Tay’s convo (NSFW for some language):
The video of Kanye speaking with Taylor on the phone about the Famous lyrics #KimExposedTaylorParty pic.twitter.com/0UBwK6gWB2
— partylikeits2007 (@partylikeits07) July 18, 2016
Part 2 – video that Kim posted of Kanye and Taylor talking on the phone pic.twitter.com/ZoObPrLSGY
— partylikeits2007 (@partylikeits07) July 18, 2016
Here is the exact transcript:
Kanye West: “You still got the Nashville number?”
Taylor Swift: “I still have the Nashville umm area code, but I had to change it.”
Kanye West reads the “Famous” lyric: “To all my southside n—-s that know me best, I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.”
Taylor Swift: “I’m like this close to overexposure.”
Kanye West: “Oh, well this I think this a really cool thing to have.”
Taylor Swift: “I know, I mean it’s like a compliment, kind of.”
Kanye West: “All I give a f–k about is you as a person and as a friend, I want things that make you feel good. ”
Taylor Swift: “That’s sweet.”
Kanye West: “I don’t want to do rap that makes people feel bad.”
Taylor Swift: “Umm, yeah 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 West: “Oh yeah, I just had a responsibility to you as a friend you know, and I mean thanks for being so cool about it.”
Taylor Swift: “Aw thanks. Um yeah I really appreciate it, like the heads up is so nice. [inaudible] Even asking or seeing if I would be okay with it and I just really appreciate it. Like I would never expect you to like tell me about a line in one of your songs.”
Kanye West: “It’s pretty crazy.”
Taylor Swift: “And then the flowers that you sent me, I like Instagrammed a picture of them and it’s like the most Instagram likes I’ve ever gotten. It was like 2.7”
Kanye West: “Relationships are more important than punch lines, ya know?”
Taylor Swift: “I don’t think anyone would listen to that and be like that’s a real diss she must be crying. You’ve gotta tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way that you experienced it. You honestly didn’t know who I was before that. It doesn’t matter that I sold 7 million of that album before you did that which is what happened, you didn’t know who I was before that. It’s fine.”
Taylor Swift: “I might be in debt, but I can make these things happen. I have the ideas to do it and I create these things and concepts. I’m always going to respect you. I’m really glad that you have the respect to call me and tell me that as a friend about the song. It’s a really cool thing to do and a really good show of friendship so thank you.”
Kanye West: “Thank you, too.”
Taylor Swift: “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 the line before it came out. Jokes 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 a Grammys red carpet and they’re going to ask me about it and I’ll be like, ‘He called me.’ It’s awesome that you’re so outspoken about this and be like, ‘Yeah, she does. It made her famous.’ Its more provocative to say ‘might still have sex…’ It’s doesn’t matter to me. There’s not like one [line] that hurts my feelings and one that doesn’t.”
Wow, you mean Kanye and Taylor spoke at length on the phone and he asked for her permission and she gave it and even told him that he didn’t even need to ask for her permission? And she basically told him that whatever lyrics he wanted to use were fine? God, I love when my instincts are dead on the money. I love when the receipts are provided. As you can imagine, Taylor can’t just say, “You know what? This whole thing escalated from a simple misunderstanding.” Of course not. Not when her whole deal is being a Professional Victim. Not when she already had her spokesperson lie about it. So Taylor tried to play the victim again – the victim of character assassination. She posted this:
That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim posts it on the Internet. pic.twitter.com/4GJqdyykQu
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July 18, 2016
So now her story changes when she got caught in a lie. Now it was always an issue of being called “that bitch”? Now she admits that the lengthy (recorded!!!) conversation took place, that he sought her permission, but her issue is with “bitch,” even though she said in the phone conversation “Like I would never expect you to like tell me about a line in one of your songs.” And “I mean go with whatever line you think is better. It’s obviously very tongue in cheek either way.”
Photos courtesy of Getty, Fame/Flynet.
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