Kim Kardashian gives a truly excellent update on the Kanye-Taylor feud

Steel yourselves for the following: Kim Kardashian West says Taylor Swift lied about her prior knowledge of the now-infamous Kanye West lyric heard 'round the world.

You know the one. From West's "Famous" off The Life of Pablo: "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/ Why? I made that bitch famous." When the song came out earlier this year, West tweeted that Swift approved the lyric, a claim that Swift denied. 

In her debut GQ cover story, Kardashian-West tells writer Caity Weaver that Swift indeed "approved" the song via phone call, and -- because Kanye apparently has a team of videographers film him during the process of recording albums -- Team Kanye has the video footage to prove it. 

From the profile:

Swift, Kim insists, “totally gave the okay. Rick Rubin was there. So many respected people in the music business heard that [conversation] and knew. I mean, he's called me a bitch in his songs. That's just, like, what they say. I never once think, [gasping] ‘What a derogatory word! How dare he?’ Not in a million years. I don't know why she just, you know, flipped all of a sudden.… It was funny because [on the call with Kanye, Taylor] said, ‘When I get on the Grammy red carpet, all the media is going to think that I'm so against this, and I'll just laugh and say, ‘The joke's on you, guys. I was in on it the whole time.’ And I'm like, wait, but [in] your Grammy speech, you completely dissed my husband just to play the victim again.'

Kardashian-West tells GQ that Swift went as far as to send a her husband a letter from an attorney stipulating that the footage never reach the public eye. 

When GQ requested comment from Swift's team, they provided a statement acknowledging that though West and Swift did speak on the phone, she was unaware of the lyrics (specifically, "that bitch") prior to the song's public release. 

The statement ends: "Kim Kardashian's claim that Taylor and her team were aware of being recorded is not true, and Taylor cannot understand why Kanye West, and now Kim Kardashian, will not just leave her alone."

Do with this new information what you will.

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