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Taylor Swift’s squad unleashes on Kanye West for sex lyric

IT WAS the lewd lyric that shocked fans, and now Taylor Swift’s crew has hit back at Kanye.

Taylor Swift attends the 2015 Billboard Music Awards
Taylor Swift attends the 2015 Billboard Music Awards

HELL hath no fury like Taylor Swift‘s squad scorned.

Kanye West streamed his new album, The Life of Pablo, during the Yeezy Season 3 presentation at Madison Square Garden on Thursday. But instead of keeping the focus on the rapper’s eclectic designs, the audience seemed more interested in the lyrics of the track Famous, in which West, 38, rapped about bedding Swift, 26, and making her a star.

“For all my Southside n — s who will know me best/ I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/ Why, I made that bitch famous/ God damn/ I made that bitch famous,” he crooned.

Unhappy with the rhymes, Swift’s 23-year-old brother, Austin Swift, took to Instagram hours after the show and posted a video in which he dumps his Yeezy 350 kicks in the trash.

“Getting a head start on some spring cleaning. Here we go again,” the younger Swift scribed.

The rap alluded to the infamous incident at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, in which West crashed the stage as Swift accepted the award for Best Female Video.

There’s no question that Swift’s BFFs have her back in the ongoing musical soap opera, too.

Jaime King, whose six-month-old tot, Leo, is Swift’s godson, said she stands with her “sister.” And as Gigi Hadid, 20, made clear on Twitter, her allegiances also lie with Swift. “My attendance somewhere does not mean I agree with everything being said in the music playing there. My friends know of my loyalty,” said Hadid, who attended the presentation.

Swift and West seemingly patched up their feud at the VMAs last August, when the Blank Space beauty presented the hip hop icon with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award. West even gifted Swift a unique floral arrangement just days after the award show.

Kanye West has Twitter words about Taylor Swift.
Kanye West has Twitter words about Taylor Swift.

“I feel like I wasn’t ready to be friends with him until I felt like he had some sort of respect for me,” Swift shared in the August issue of Vanity Fair.

“Kanye and I both reached a place where he would say really nice things about my music and what I’ve accomplished, and I could ask him how his kid’s doing.”

West took to Twitter on Friday and claimed that he had spoken with Swift ahead of the album’s release.

Swift’s reps, however, verified that the exchange never took place.

“Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single Famous on her Twitter account. She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, ‘I made that bitch famous,’” Swift’s camp confirmed.

Kanye West performs during Kanye West Yeezy Season 3 on February 11, 2016 in New York City.
Kanye West performs during Kanye West Yeezy Season 3 on February 11, 2016 in New York City.

Originally published as Taylor Swift’s squad unleashes on Kanye West for sex lyric

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