Four years after edited snippets of a phone conversation between Taylor Swift and Kanye West were released by Kim Kardashian West, another leak came out with an extended version of the same call.
Swift’s fans were quick to take to Twitter to support their idol.
In that call, West asks for Swift’s help in releasing and promoting his new song that contains a “very controversial line” about her: “To all my Southside n— that know me best/ I feel like Taylor Swift might owe me s*x.” (This was eventually changed to “For all my Southside n— that know me best/ I feel like me and Taylor might still have s*x / Why? I made that b*tch famous”).
While she said the proposed line “isn’t mean,” Swift is still hesitant to release and promote the track for him.
“I think if I launch it, it adds this level of criticism, ‘cause having that many followers and having that many eyeballs on me right now, people are just looking for me to do something dumb or stupid or lame,” she tells West.
Another portion of the leaked call has West asking Swift her thoughts on him using a line that said “I made her famous,” to which she responded: “Did you say that? Oh God, well, what am I going to do about it at this point.
It’s just kind of, like, whatever at this point, but I mean, you gotta tell the story the way 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 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 and that’s fine. Yeah, I can’t wait to hear it.”
Back in 2016, Kim Kardashian West leaked snippets of that phone call, prompting Swift to take to Instagram to slam the couple for calling her a lying “snake.”
“Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me ‘that b*tch’ 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 b*tch’ in front of the entire world,” the singer 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.
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Soon after the videos were leaked on the evening of March 20, #KanyeWestIsOverParty, #KimKardashianIsOverParty, and #TaylorToldtheTruth started trending on social media although West’s fans downplayed it as “old news” and that everyone should move on.
So far, Swift, West, and Kardashian West have not issued any statements about the leaked videos.
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