Taylor Swift took to Instagram to urge her fans to concentrate on ‘what really matters’ after the four-year-old phone call between her and Kanye West about the rapper’s controversial song “Famous” went viral online.
The 30-year-old singer wrote on her Instagram story: “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 h*ll for 4 years)…SWIPE UP to see what really matters.”
She urged fans to donate to the organizations during the pandemic. “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,” she added.
In the leaked phone-call, Kanye can be heard asking Taylor to tweet about his new song on her Twitter account. “So my next single, I wanted you to tweet it, so that’s why I’m calling you. I wanted you to put the song out,” he tells her.
He warns her that “it’s gonna go, Eminem, a little bit” and to “brace yourself for a second. So it says, ‘To all my Southside n— that know me best/ I feel like Taylor Swift might owe me sex,” Kanye continues.
Taylor responds saying: “That’s not mean.” After the whole discussion, Taylor says she is relieved because the lyrics don’t indicate her being “that stupid dumb bit*h” and tells him that she will “think about it because it is absolutely crazy.”
Later, Kanye tells the actual lyrics which he wrote to Taylor saying, “To all my Southside n— that know me best/ I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.” (The lyric that made it into the final version of the track is “For all my Southside n— that know me best/ I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bit*h famous)”
He then asks Taylor how would she feel if he adds the line that said “I made her famous,” to which Taylor reacts saying: “Did you say that? Well, what am I going to do about it? 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’ve experienced it. Like, you honestly didn’t know who I was before that. Like, 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. It’s fine. But um, yeah, I can’t wait to hear it.”
“I’m going to send you the song and send you the exact wording and everything about it, right? And then we could sit and talk through it,” Kanye tells Taylor.
After the release of the song ‘Famous’ in 2016, Taylor’s representative told PEOPLE that she “declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyrics, I made that bit*h famous.”
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