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- 2009: The feud ignites. It all began in September 2009 at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Radio City Music Hall in New York. Getty Images. The 2009 award was Swift's first Video Music Award.
- 2010: Kanye apologises. In a lengthy Twitter-storm in September 2010, West again apologised and said he had written a song for Swift, before deleting his account.
- 2013: Kanye un-apologises. Days before he became a father for the first time with partner Kim Kardashian, West gave an extensive interview with the New York Times newspaper when he declared he had no regrets over the Swift incident.
- 2015: BFFs? By 2015, the feud looked well and truly put to bed. West hinted they would work on music together and Kardashian attended a Swift concert in London with sister Kendall.
Upon its release, "Famous" was met with both critical acclaim and scrutiny for a controversial lyrical reference to American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, partially in relation to West's interruption of her 2009 VMA acceptance speech. After West claimed to have obtained Swift's approval over the criticized lyric, Swift denied the claim ...
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- September 13, 2009: Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards. The moment that started it all. When Swift was awarded the moon man for Best Female Video for "You Belong with Me" in 2009, West climbed the stairs to interrupt Swift's acceptance speech with the now-infamous proclamation, "Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'ma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!"
- September 14, 2009: Kanye West addresses interrupting Taylor Swift on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. "I immediately knew in the situation that it was wrong and it was a spectacle," West said, also attributing the outburst to a mixture of "sincerity and alcohol" on Ellen.
- September 15, 2009: Taylor Swift reveals that Kanye West called her to apologize. "Kanye did call me and he was very sincere in his apology, and I accepted that apology," the "Blank Space" singer told ABC Radio in 2009.
- September 12, 2010: Taylor Swift performs "Innocent," a song rumored to be about Kanye West, at the MTV Video Music Awards. Swift performed "Innocent" off her album Speak Now at the 2010 MTV VMAs.
Dec 6, 2023 · Kanye West never told Taylor he was going to use the term ‘that b—h’ in referencing her. A song cannot be approved if it was never heard. Kanye West never played the song for Taylor...
Aug 26, 2019 · Taylor Swift and Kanye West are as famous as they are in part because they are very good at letting us project different ideas on to them — about white femininity and black masculinity,...
Apr 23, 2024 · Kanye West jumped onstage after Taylor Swift won the “Best Female Video” award at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Christopher Polk/Getty Images....
Jul 17, 2016 · Following the release of Kanye West’s “Famous,” many were taken aback by the way West described his relationship with Taylor Swift: I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex Why?
