Although Kanye claimed he had Swift's approval for the lyric, at the time, Taylor's publicist responded to the song's release, saying, "Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single 'Famous' on her Twitter account. She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, "I made that b*tch famous."
At this point, Kanye's wife, Kim Kardashian, gets involved, releasing a video to Snapchat that appears to show Taylor agreeing to the line while on the phone with Kanye.
Kardashian also posted the now infamous tweet that inspired Taylor's album Reputation: "Wait it's legit National Snake Day?!?!?They have holidays for everybody, I mean everything these days!"
The feud was also brought up in Netflix's Miss Americana, which features video of the audience at Kanye's concert chanting: "F*ck Taylor Swift."
Most recently, however, new unedited footage of Taylor and Kanye's phone call shows that Swift was telling the truth--the "b*tch" line was never run by her.
Swift responded to the footage on her Instagram stories, writing: "Instead of answering those who are asking how I feel about video footage that was leaked, proving that I was telling the truth the whole time about *that call* (you know, the one that was illegally recorded, that somebody edited and manipulated in order to frame me and put me, my family, and fans through hell for 4 years)...Swipe up to see what really matters.”
The singer then linked donation pages for WHO and Feeding America.
Kardashian herself responded then in a series of tweets, insisting that she did not edit the video and calling Swift "self-serving" by addressing the exchange at all.
She also claimed this would be "the last time [she] speaks on this because honestly, nobody cares."