Kanye West Mentions Taylor Swift Once More in New Song ‘Carnival’
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, just can’t stop dropping Taylor Swift’s name in his music.
The Donda rapper, who is one half of ¥$ alongside Ty Dolla $ign, made a quick reference to the “Cruel Summer” singer on the hip-hop duo’s new track “Carnival,” from their just-released album, Vultures 1.
In the song, Ye raps, “Why she say she sucked my d—? / Then she say she ain’t sucked my d— / She gon’ take it up the a– / Like a ventriloquist / I made six Taylor Swift / Since I had the Rollie on the wrist.”
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Swift isn’t the only celebrity mentioned in the song. Throughout its nearly five-minute runtime, Ye also nods to R. Kelly, Bill Cosby, Puff Daddy, and Elon Musk.
“Elon, where my rocket ship? / It’s time to go home,” he raps. “They served us the porn (Ha) / Since the day we was born (Ha) / Anybody pissed off (Ha) / Gotta make ’em drink the urine (Ha) / Now I’m Ye-Kelly, bitch (Ha) / Now, I’m Bill Cosby, bitch (Ha) / Now, I’m Puff Daddy rich (Ha) / That’s #MeToo me rich (Ha).”
Ye and Swift have had a difficult past starting when he crashed her 2009 Video Music Awards acceptance speech to declare that Beyoncé “had one of the best videos of all time.” The pair’s relationship took another volatile turn when Ye released his 2016 song “Famous,” which featured the line: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous.”
At the time, Ye asserted he “did not diss” Swift with the lyrics, claiming he had “called Taylor and had a hourlong convo with her about the line and she thought it was funny and gave her blessings.” However, she maintained that he didn’t tell her about the “I made that bitch famous” line. His then-wife Kim Kardashian later published part of the phone call between the pair discussing the song on her Snapchat account in 2016, sparking further tension between the artists.
“When he gets on the phone with me, and I was so touched that he would be respectful and, like, tell me about this one line in the song… And I was like, ‘Okay, good. We’re back on good terms,'” Swift told Rolling Stone of the call in 2019. “And then when I heard the song, I was like, ‘I’m done with this. If you want to be on bad terms, let’s be on bad terms, but just be real about it.’”
Their full conversation was later released in 2020, which Swift said proved that she “was telling the truth the whole time about *that call*.” She added, “You know, the one that was illegally recorded, that somebody edited and manipulated in order to frame me and put me, my family, and fans through hell for 4 years.”
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