Kanye West raised some eyebrows when he mentioned Taylor Swift in one of the tunes from his new album.
During a listening party for his collaborative album with Ty Dolla $ign, Vultures, the 46-year-old rapper performed Carnival for the audience, which included various celebrities, including the Lover singer and his former mother-in-law, Kris Jenner.
According to Forbes, he made references to accused rapist Bill Cosby and tech millionaire Elon Musk, as well as criticizing the Me Too movement.
“Now I’m Ye Kelly, b**** / Now I’m Bill Cosby, b**** / Now I’m Puff Daddy rich / That’s Me Too rich,” the rap verse read.
“I mean since Taylor Swift, since I had a Rollie on the wrist / I’m the new Jesus, b**** / I turned water into Kris / This for what they did to Chris / They can’t do s*** with this,” West added.
The animosity between the Power rapper and Swift extends back over a decade. He allegedly used her name in his song Famous without her permission.
The pair later exchanged contradicting accusations about the harsh lyrics before Kim Kardashian, Kanye’s wife at the time, published an alleged doctored phone call between the singers.
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In a rare interview with TIME magazine last year, the Midnights musician addressed the topic that resulted to Swift’s long absence from the spotlight due to backlash.
“You have a fully manufactured frame job, in an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar,” she revealed in December 2023.
“That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before. I moved to a foreign country. I didn’t leave a rental house for a year. I was afraid to get on phone calls,”
