Kim Kardashian's SnapChat exposé reignites bad blood between Kanye West and Taylor Swift

The long-simmering feud between Taylor Swift and Kanye West took another turn this week.

While they appeared to have gotten over the infamous MTV Video Music Awards interruption by West in 2009, the two seem to be entering another phase of bad blood over the rapper's latest single “Famous,” where he referred to Swift as “that bitch.”

West insisted that he asked for Swift's permission through a phone call before releasing the song, which she vehemently denied. 

She even went on to address the issue after as she accepts several recognition from the Grammy Award this year, saying: “I want to say to all the young women out there—there are going to be people along the way who will to try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame."

It all went quiet for a while, until this Sunday's episode of “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” where Kim and her sisters addressed the whole fiasco.

"It was really important to (Kanye) when he was writing the song Famous that he spoke to (Swift). And, they knew it was gonna be controversial. The camera crew filmed him speaking to Taylor and got their whole conversation. So, I think he definitely really cared about how she felt," Kim said. 

"I think she got freaked out by the reaction and, all of a sudden, she flipped," Kim added.

Her sister Khloe replid: “All I know is I saw the video, I've heard Taylor, and I think that Kanye did the right thing."

Recorded conversation

This weekend, Kim blew up the internet by posting the conversation between his husband and Swift about “Famous.”

Contrary to her reaction following the release of the song, the singer seemed to be happy about having West call her about it.

In a series of Snapchat videos by Kim, West rapped a line for Swift: “For all the south side niggas that know me best/I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex.” 

He added: “I think this is a really cool thing to have.” 

To which she replied: “I know, it's like a compliment, kind of. I mean, what's dope about the line is it's very tongue in cheek either way. And I really appreciate you telling me about it, that's really nice.”

The conversation seemed to go on smoothly, with Swift even encouraging West to “tell the story the way that it happened to you and the way you experienced it.”

“Like you obviously didn’t know who I was before that. It doesn’t matter if I sold 7 million of that album before you did that, which is what happened. You didn’t know who I was before that,” she said.

The “Famous” line goes: “I think that me and Taylor might still have sex, I made that bitch famous.”

Swift assured West that she's going to talk about the song in the Grammys. 

“If people ask me about it, I think it would be great for me to be like, ‘Look, he called me and told me about the line before it came out. Joke's on you guys, we're fine,’” she said.

“You guys wanna call this a feud, you wanna call this throwing shade, but right after the song comes out, I'm gonna be on a Grammy red carpet and they're gonna ask me about it, and I'm gonna be like, ‘He called me.’”

Their conversation showed a very different reaction from Swift, who referred to the song as “misogynistic.”

Taylor, Selena speak up

A few hours after Kim's videos went viral, Swift aired her side through an Instagram post.

“Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me 'that bitch' in his song? It doesn't exist because it never happened. You don't get to control someone's emotional response to being called 'that bitch' in front of the entire world. Of course, I wanted to like the song. I wanted to believe Kanye when he told me that I would love the song. I wanted us to have a friendly relationship,” she said.

The singer insisted that though West promised to play the song for her, she only heard it on the same time that everybody else did. 

According to her, she cannot “approve” a song she hadn't even heard.

“Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination. I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that I have never asked to be a part of, since 2009,” she said.

The post was captioned “That moment when Kanye West secretly records your phone call, then Kim posts it on the Internet.”

Fellow singer Selena Gomez seemingly came to her best friend's aid after the online revelation.

Gomez went on a Twitter rant about the enterntainment industry being “disappointing yet influential.”

“There are more important things to talk about... Why can't people use their voice for something that fucking matters?” she insisted.

All of this drama comes shortly after Swift was blasted by her ex-boyfriend Calvin Harris after she revealed that she co-wrote his recent hit "This Is What You Came For," which features Rihanna on vocals. 

"I figure if you're happy in your new relationship you should focus on that instead of trying to tear your ex bf down for something to do," the Scottish DJ wrote on Twitter, alluding to Swift's blossoming romance with English actor Tom Hiddleston.

Harris also hit a potential sore spot by referring to Swift's famed bad blood with fellow US pop superstar Katy Perry.

"I know you're off tour and you need someone new to try and bury like Katy ETC but I'm not that guy, sorry. I won't allow it," he tweeted. —JST, GMA News