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It seems that Kanye West is likely to be able to lastly quash the long-held unhealthy blood with Taylor Swift — and it began with a single social media transfer.
As of Saturday, February 1, West, 47, is now following Swift, 35, on Instagram. He additionally shared a screenshot of his “Following” listing on his Instagram Tales, noting that Swift is the one one included. (As of Sunday, February 2, West additionally began following a non-public account named “eylulrhyme.”)
He later took to the platform to have fun his 2025 Grammy nomination — additionally leaving a Swift-themed Easter egg.
“Thanks to the Grammies [sic] for nominating ‘Carnival,’” West captioned a photograph of the Grammy trophy, tagging the likes of Swift, Ty Dolla Signal, Playboi Carti, Wealthy the Child and the Recording Academy.
West’s “Carnival” is up for “Finest Rap Track” at Sunday’s awards present, whereas Swift scored five nods for her album The Tortured Poets Division and an additional nomination for her and Gracie Abrams’ duet, “us.”
Swift and West go method again to 2009 when the rapper interrupted her MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech, proclaiming that Beyoncé ought to have taken residence the trophy as a substitute. Swift later issued a name for peace in Communicate Now’s “Harmless” earlier than West talked about her by identify in “Well-known,” citing, “I really feel like me and Taylor would possibly nonetheless have intercourse / I made that bitch well-known.”
West had claimed that Swift gave him permission to incorporate the vulgar lyric, which she repeatedly vehemently denied. West’s then-wife, Kim Kardashian, subsequently launched footage of an alleged phone call between the 2 Grammy winners that corroborated West’s model of occasions. It has since come to gentle that the decision was edited.
‘Trigger child we’ve at all times bought unhealthy blood relating to Taylor Swift and Kanye West. The duo’s decades-long feud first started in 2009, when West shockingly ambushed Swift as she was receiving the award for Finest Feminine Video in the course of the MTV Video Music Awards. As she started her acceptance speech for “You Belong With Me,” West […]
Whereas chatting with TIME in 2023, Swift referred to the scandal as a “profession dying.”
“Make no mistake — my profession was taken away from me,” the “Fortnight” singer recalled to the outlet in a December 2023 profile. “You could have a totally manufactured body job, in an illegally recorded cellphone name, which Kim Kardashian edited after which put out to say to everybody that I used to be a liar.”
Swift continued, “That took me down psychologically to a spot I’ve by no means been earlier than. I moved to a overseas nation. I didn’t depart a rental home for a yr. I used to be afraid to get on cellphone calls. I pushed away most individuals in my life as a result of I didn’t belief anybody anymore. I went down actually, actually exhausting.”
Kardashian, 44, beforehand claimed in 2020 that she was compelled to “defend” her then-husband within the warmth of the second. The now-exes, who share 4 children, break up in 2021.
Swift appeared to shut out the feud final yr by together with “thanK you aIMee” on TTPD, which used capital letters to spell out “Kim.” A bonus version of the observe swapped the capital “Kim” for “Ye.” (West has shortened his skilled moniker to be “Ye.”)
“Taylor has moved on and isn’t trying again,” a supply exclusively told Us Weekly in April 2024. “The tune is her last phrase.”
