Swifties wager Kanye West thinks about Taylor Swift and her NFL boyfriend Travis Kelce.
On August 3, followers have been stunned to listen to Swift and Kelce talked about on the 47-year-old rapper’s new album, Vultures 2. Although West doesn’t name out the couple himself, the pop star and soccer participant have been each name-checked on the monitor “Lifestyle (Demo)” by featured rapper Lil Wayne.
“I twist my Taylor spliffs tight at the end like Travis Kelce,” Lil Wayne raps in his verse, referring to Kelce’s place on the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.
As you in all probability (positively) know, Taylor Swift and Kanye West have a tumultuous historical past, which dates again to his notorious mic seize on the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. Issues solely received worse when West launched “Famous” in 2016, that includes the lyrics, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that bitch famous.” (West later launched a music video that includes a unadorned wax determine of Swift, which she described as “revenge porn.”)
Taylor Swift rebuked the “Famous” lyrics on the 2016 Grammy Awards, main West’s then-wife Kim Kardashian to leak an edited cellphone name that appeared to show Swift had permitted the lyrics earlier than the music was launched. 4 years later, the additional footage backed up Swift’s declare that she by no means heard the lyric calling her a “bitch,” although the injury to her psychological well being had already been achieved.
“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,” Swift mentioned in her Time’s Particular person of the Yr interview 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. I pushed away most people in my life because I didn’t trust anyone anymore. I went down really, really hard.”
Comparatively, Kanye West’s new monitor didn’t appear to impress a giant response from Swift…although followers don’t assume it went unnoticed. In accordance with some Swifties, the pop star took a delicate jab at West by sporting her “I Bet You Think About Me” slogan T-shirt through the Purple portion of her Warsaw Eras Tour efficiency on August 3.
“She’s so funny for wearing the I bet you think about me shirt after Ka*ye name dropped her and Travis in his song,” wrote one X.com person who described Swift as “an actual comedian.”
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Technically, Lil Wayne is the one who really raps about Swift, however the level nonetheless stands — at the least, in keeping with the 7,000+ Swifties who appreciated the submit.
In the meantime, Travis Kelce doesn’t appear to have acknowledged the lyric in any respect. Final we heard, he was too busy taking a fan’s breath away and blaming it on the “Taylor Swift effect.” Now that’s a name-check followers will likely be delighted to listen to.
This text initially appeared on GLAMOUR (US).
