Just in case you're one of the eight people who still need to be caught up on this celeb feud, let me just rewind for a second...
At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift won the award for 'Best Female Video' for her track 'You Belong With Me'. However, during her acceptance speech, rapper Kanye West jumped on stage, took the microphone, and told everybody that "Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time!"
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It was quite surreal.
Then, in 2016, Kanye released an album called The Life of Pablo, which featured a song called 'Famous'. In this song, he makes reference to his altercation with Swift, saying: "For all my Southside n***as that know me best, I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that bitch famous".
In response to the backlash of the lyrics - from both Swift and her fanbase - Kim Kardashian released a short video clip of Kanye and Taylor discussing the rapper’s track, in which she appears to approve a lyric about her: "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex". (Nowhere in the original clip were the lyrics, "I made that b*tch famous" discussed.)
Taylor later claimed that she never heard the song in full, saying in a social media statement: "Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is a character assassination." But despite this, Swift was widely criticized and branded a liar and a "snake", with #TaylorSwiftIsOverParty quickly trending on Twitter.
But on Friday, a full and seemingly unedited video of that infamous phone call was "leaked" online, reinforcing Taylor's claim that she never heard the full song lyrics, and in which Taylor comes across rather hesitant and manipulated.
If you haven't seen the full and unedited call yet, check it out below:Well, it wasn't long before Twitter BLEW UP, and the hashtag #KanyeWestIsOverParty was trending worldwide.
Now, Swift has finally spoken out about the "leaked" phone call, explaining how "somebody edited and manipulated" it in order to "frame" her. Sharing on her Instagram Stories with her 128 million followers, Taylor Wrote:
"Instead of answering those who are asking how I feel about the video footage that leaked, proving that I was telling the truth the whole time about that call (you know, the one that was illegally recorded, that somebody edited and manipulated in order to frame me and put me, my family, and fans through hell for 4 years)... SWIPE UP to see what really matters..."
But, being aware that there are bigger issues happening around the world right now, Taylor's second story encouraged others to donate what they could to The World Health Organization and Feeding America, writing:
"The World Health Organization and Feeding America are some of the organizations I've been donating to. If you have the ability to, please join me in donating during this crisis."
But Kim Kardashian was far from impressed with Taylor's response to the call, and in a series of tweets, the reality star slammed Swift's claims that she had ever edited the footage and said that Taylor is once again "lying" about what really happened. Kim wrote:
"Taylor Swift has chosen to reignite an old exchange - that at this point in time feels very self-serving given the suffering millions of real victims are facing right now.
"I didn’t feel the need to comment a few days ago, and I’m actually really embarrassed and mortified to be doing it right now, but because she continues to speak on it, I feel I’m left without a choice but to respond because she is actually lying.
"To be clear, the only issue I ever had around the situation was that Taylor lied through her publicist who stated that 'Kanye never called to ask for permission...' They clearly spoke so I let you all see that. Nobody ever denied the word 'bitch' was used without her permission.
"At the time when they spoke the song had not been fully written yet, but as everyone can see in the video, she manipulated the truth of their actual conversation in her statement when her team said she 'declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. The lie was never about the word bitch, It was always whether there was a call or not and the tone of the conversation.
"I never edited the footage (another lie) - I only posted a few clips on Snapchat to make my point and the full video that recently leaked doesn’t change the narrative.
"To add, Kanye as an artist has every right to document his musical journey and process, just like she recently did through her documentary. Kanye has documented the making of all of his albums for his personal archive, however has never released any of it for public consumption & the call between the two of them would have remained private or would have gone in the trash had she not lied & forced me to defend him.
"This will be the last time I speak on this because honestly, nobody cares. Sorry to bore you all with this. I know you are all dealing with more serious and important matters."
Something tells me this will not be the end of all this...
