If you’re not on social media all day, every day (who are you?), and if you then missed the GRAMMYs last night, you might be a little confused about all the Taylor Swift hype. Blah, blah, blah, she won album of the year ~again~ for “1989,” and became the first woman to win that award twice (which is actually pretty dope, I’ll give her that), and then she gave a salty speech, which many are praising, during which she subtweeted Kanye West, but in real life.
This is, of course, a reference to a lyric from Kanye’s new album “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex, I made that bitch famous.”
I’m a long-time conspiracy theorist on the Kanye-Taylor-Beyoncé scandal of 2009. I don’t think Kanye made that bitch famous, but I think he helped her career, and I think she was in on it. After all, immediately after that scandal, Kanye dropped “Toast to the Douchebags,” Beyoncé became Queen Bey, and Taylor won her first album of the year. Coincidence? I think not. Kanye seems to imply that she’s in on all of it too, via his Twitter rant last week.
I did not diss Taylor Swift and I’ve never dissed her…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016
First thing is I’m an artist and as an artist I will express how I feel with no censorship
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016
2nd thing I asked my wife for her blessings and she was cool with it
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016
3rd thing I called Taylor and had a hour long convo with her about the line and she thought it was funny and gave her blessings
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016
4th Bitch is an endearing term in hip hop like the word Nigga
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016
5th thing I’m not even gone take credit for the idea… it’s actually something Taylor came up with …
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016
She was having dinner with one of our friends who’s name I will keep out of this and she told him
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016
I can’t be mad at Kanye because he made me famous! #FACTS
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016
Welp..