Apr 13, 2016 West delivered his latest public address about their long-running squabble during his weekend performance in the Philippines. Yeezy explained why he felt the need to make Swift his lyrical punching bag in the new song “Famous” from the February-released The Life of Pablo, in which he so eloquently rapped, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b—h famous.” According to PEOPLE, West called his infamous stunt at the 2009 MTV VMAs, where he hijacked Swift’s acceptance speech for the Best Female Video award since he considered Beyonce more deserving of the honor, “the beginning of the end of my life.” He justified his actions, claiming that he “just said what everybody else was thinking.” West also explained that “Famous” helped cure his writer’s block “because it’s something I wanted to say so bad.” He also suggested that it was his artistic duty and responsibility, saying, “So if I get in trouble for saying the truth, what’s being said the rest of the time? And I had to fight every day of my life, with the whole world turned against me, for saying out loud what everyone else felt. But that’s the job of an artist, of a true artist: not to be controlled by their finances, not to be controlled by perceptions, but only to be controlled by their truth.”
