The phonecall which caused the feud between Kanye West and Taylor Swift about his song Famous has been leaked in full today.
The pair have had bad blood since the rapper and wife Kim Kardashian claimed the popstar had given her approval to being called a b***h in the 2016 tune.
A short clip of the infamous conversation was originally released back in 2016 by Kim, in a bid to prove her husband was telling the truth.
But on Saturday, the full chat was leaked on Twitter, which in fact reveals the opposite.
Kanye, 42, did tell the Lover singer that he’d be referencing her in the song but failed to mention he’d be calling her a b**** – or telling her he’d be saying he was the reason she is famous.
During the 25-minute chat, Kanye can be heard speaking on the phone and telling Taylor about the lyrics.
He says: “It has a very controversial line at the beginning of the song about you.
“I don’t think it’s mean.”
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Kanye then hesitates, and adds: “It says, uh… and the funny thing, when I first played it and my wife heard it, she was like, ‘huh? What, that’s too crazy,’ and then when Ninja from Die Atwoord hear it, he was like, ‘Oh my god, this is the craziest s**t, this is why I love Kanye…’ and now, it’s like my wife’s favourite f***ing line… I just wanted to give you some premise of that.”
Kim said in an interview with GQ. “She totally knew that that was coming out. She wanted to all of a sudden act like she didn’t. I swear, my husband gets so much shit for things [when] he really was doing proper protocol and even called to get it approved.”
He then tells her the words are: “To all my Southside n***as that know me best, I feel like Taylor Swift might owe me sex.”
Taylor laughs as she replies: “That’s not mean.”
Taylor was bullied online in the wake of the phonecall leak in 2016, with Kim and her army of fans branding her a “snake” – something she’s reclaimed and referenced throughout her work recently and which was addressed in Netflix documentary Miss Americana.
After objecting to the way she was referred to in the song, she was accused of lying that she hadn’t been aware of what exactly was said.
In the final version of the song Kanye sings: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.
“Why? I made that b**ch famous God damn.
“I made that b**ch famous.”
The fresh revelations in the footage today confirm she had actually been telling the truth.
Kanye can be heard adding: “OK, well this is the thing why I’m calling you, because you got an army, you own a country of motherf***ing 2bn people, basically.”
“If you felt that it’s funny and cool and hip hop, and felt like it’s the College Dropout and Ye that you love, people would be way into it, and that’s why I think it’s super genius to have you be the one that says ‘Oh I like this song a lot… this is cool.'”
“I need to think about it,” Taylor replies.
“When you hear something for the first time you need to think about it, because it is absolutely crazy.”
