Kanye West Claims Taylor Swift Approved His Controversial Line About Her

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When Kanye West‘s debuted his new album last night at Madison Square Garden yesterday, there was one verse seemed to stand out amongst the rest, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that bitch famous.” Last night, we reported Taylor Swift’s camp being upset about the “Famous” verse in which they fully denied having any knowledge of the lyric. Moments ago, Mr. West took to to Twitter to defend the song and argue on behalf of “real artists.” ‘Ye is also stating that he had an hour long conversation about the lyric and that Taylor Swift gave him her blessings. Check out Kanye’s full series of Tweets below:

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

6th Stop trying to demonize real artist Stop trying to compromise art
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

That’s why music is so fucking watered down right now I miss that DMX feeling
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

7th I miss that feeling so that’s what I want to help restore
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

8th They want to control us with money and perception and mute the culture
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

but you can see at Madison Square Garden that you can stop us
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

9th It felt like a seen from The Warriors ALL GODS ALL GODS ALL GODS in the buildin
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

not just the famous people there but the kids the moms the dads the families that came to share this moment with us
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016