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Kim posted this footage of her husband
Kanye West specifically requesting Taylor's permission to reference her in his song "Famous" — reading her the line: "To all my Southside n*ggas that know me best/I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex." It's a conversation that Taylor would go on to claim never happened!
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Taylor's PR reps said, after "Famous" was released: ""Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single 'Famous' on her Twitter account." The video shows otherwise, with Kanye saying: "I don't want to do rap that makes people feel bad" — and adding: "I just had a responsibility to you as a friend, you know, and, I mean, thanks for being so cool about it."
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Taylor was a lot less cool after Kanye cavorted with
a naked Taylor Swift mannequin in what became the "Famous" video. Then things took a new twist after
Kim talked to GQ magazine — saying that she had the video of Taylor giving her husband permission to use the line.
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Despite the video, though, Taylor is defending herself again — going back to her PR team's claims that: "Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, 'I made that bitch famous.'"
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In a new social media post, Taylor wrote: "Where is the video of Kanye telling me that he was going to call me 'that bitch' in the song? It doesn't exist because it never happened." As the video shows, Taylor's not lying about Kanye skipping that line in the lyrics.
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Still, fans of both Kanye and Taylor seem skeptical of the whole affair. "Taylor's big mistake was to learn about him calling her a 'bitch' and then try to say that she never gave Kanye permission to say anything about her," wrote one disappointed follower.
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Meanwhile, a lot of Kanye's audience are skeptical about the rapper's mild-mannered pitch to Taylor. "You have to figure Kanye did all this on purpose," speculated one fan. "Call up Taylor, leave out the line where he calls her a 'bitch,' and then make a lot of money once she freaks out over it!"
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