Kanye West has claimed he has been “far more helpful to Taylor Swift’s career than harmful”.
The rapper shared a screengrab of a Taylor Swift fan calling on her fellow Swifties to stream Beyoncé’s new song, Texas Hold ‘Em, to prevent Kanye from reaching the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 with a track from his album Vultures.
In the Instagram caption, the Touch the Sky hitmaker insisted Swifties shouldn’t consider him their enemy.
“She and Beyoncé are big inspirations to all musicians we always say how both sell out tours and movies,” Kanye wrote on Tuesday. “Also, I’m sure I’ve been far more helpful to Taylor Swift’s career than harmful. To all Taylor Swift fans I am not your enemy uuum I’m not your friend either though lol (sic).”
Kanye and Taylor’s on-off feud began when he interrupted her acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards to insist that Beyoncé should have won the award instead. After making amends, they fell out over his 2016 song Famous, in which he boasted that he made her famous. Taylor dropped out of the spotlight after Kanye and his then-wife Kim Kardashian released a recording of her seemingly approving the lyrics, something she had denied.
Earlier on Wednesday, the rapper’s representative refuted a claim that the Love Story singer got him kicked out of the Super Bowl on Sunday. Responding to the headlines in his post, Kanye insisted he and his wife Bianca Censori moved seats to hang out with rapper YG.
“Also I didn’t get kicked out of the Super Bowl we left our seats to go to YG’s box and see different friends,” he wrote. “My wife had never been to a Super Bowl so I wanted to walk around and have a nice time we had such a fun day (sic).”
Kanye released his album Vultures, a joint project with Ty Dolla $ign, on Friday, while Beyoncé surprise-released Texas Hold ‘Em and 16 Carriages, two songs from the second act of Renaissance, during the Super Bowl.
