Taylor Swift vs Kanye West: Things you should know about decade-long feud

At the night of MTV VMAs when Kanye West jumped on stage, and interrupted Taylor Swift acceptance speech of Best Female Video Award for 'You Belong With Me' and tell her the actual winner is  Beyonce, that's where it all started: "Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'mma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!", Kanye said on stage.

Just a day after the VMAs, Kanye West appeared on 'The Tonight Show' With Jay Leno. "It's been a difficult day," he explained. "I'm just dealing with the fact that I hurt someone or took anything away from a talented artist or from anyone, because I only wanted to help people.I immediately knew in this situation that it was wrong. It's someone's emotions that I stepped on. It was rude, period."

A year later, Taylor Swift returned to the VMA stage with her West-inspired song 'Innocent', where she seemingly accepts West's apologies, "It's all right/ Just wait and see/ Your string of lights is still bright to me/ Who you are is not where you've been/ You're still an innocent/. It's okay/ Life is a tough crowd/ 32 and still growing up now."

Years after, in the year 2015, Taylor Swift and Kanye West made the headlines again when they together posed at the Grammys ceremony. 

When things were returning to normal, Kanye West came with the new song 'Famous'. In the song, Kanye raps, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b***h famous."

Kanye claimed that lyrics have been approved by the Taylor, "I called Taylor and had an hour-long convo with her about the line and she thought it was funny and gave her blessings."

While Taylor denied, "Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask her to release his single 'Famous' on her Twitter account. She declined that she was never made aware of the actual lyric, "I made that bitch famous.''

Kanye West's former wife Kim Kardashian, came to her husband's defence claiming that Taylor Swift approved the controversial lyrics in 'Famous', 

"She totally approved that," Kardashian said about the lyrics. "She wanted to all of a sudden act like she didn't. I swear, my husband gets so much s**t for things he really was doing proper protocol and even called to get it approved." Kardashian also claimed that phone conversation between Kanye West and Taylor Swift was recorded.

Kim Kardashian releases a Kanye West and Taylor Swift's recorded conversation on Snapchat that claims that 'Famous' lyrics were indeed Swift-approved.

After years, of talking of each other, Swift tells her side of the 'Famous' phone call. In an interview, Swift said, ''The world didn’t understand the context and the events that led up to it. Because nothing ever just happens like that without some lead-up. Some events took place to cause me to be pissed off when he called me a b***h. That was not just a singular event. Basically, I got really sick of the dynamic between he and I. And that wasn’t just based on what happened on that phone call and with that song it was kind of a chain reaction of things."

The conflict between Kanye and Taylor dates back to 2016 when Ye released the song 'Famous' featuring the lyrics “I made that b***h famous”, referring to a previous spat between the pair.   

Swift also recounted how the feud with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West took her down psychologically.

“Make no mistake, my career was taken away from me,” she told the publication. 

“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. 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 any more. I went down really, really hard,” she said.