Kanye West has some more things to say about that Taylor Swift lyric

Those fateful VMAs were "the beginning of the end of my life."
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Kanye West has some more things to say about that Taylor Swift lyric
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It's the lyric heard 'round the world. 

Kanye West is back to talking about that Taylor Swift line on "Famous" ("I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/I made that bitch famous").

At a concert on Sunday in the Philippines, he performed the song and talked about it, saying he "fought to make that the first single" on The Life of Pablo, according to Rappler


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West also gave a mini speech about the track and the original VMAs incident from 2009, calling it "the beginning of the end of my life." 

"Lady Gaga canceled the tour the next day ... I just said what everybody else is thinking," he said, referring to the scrapped Fame Kills tour, which was supposed to run from November 2009 to January 2010. 

West continued by saying that speaking his truth is the job of "a true artist, not to be controlled by their finances." 

"Say what you f*cking feel," he said. 

Here's a short clip of 'Ye performing the song. 


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Yohana Desta was the senior film reporter for Mashable. She is a Northern Virginia native and an American University grad. She enjoys carefully curating her Instagram account and can often be found reading books, going to concerts, watching movies and learning way too much about pop culture.

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