Taylor Swift Took Clear Shot at Kanye West in Never-Before-Seen Photo
The feud between rapper Kanye West and pop sensation Taylor Swift is widely documented, but it seems we just added a new chapter to it this week, thanks to an old photo shared by Ed Sheeran.
During the MTV Video Music Awards in September of 2009, Kanye West infamously lept onto the stage while Taylor Swift was accepting the award for Best Female Video for the music video for her hit song "You Belong With Me." Taylor beat out Beyoncé's iconic video for her hit "Single Ladies," and Kanye was not happy about it.
West interrupted Taylor's acceptance speech and delivered a now infamous line.
"Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. Imma let you finish. But Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!"
The incident ignited a feud between the two of them for a number of years that reached a new level when Kanye wrote vulgar lyrics about her in a song in 2016. When Taylor expressed her outrage, Kanye and his then-wife Kim Kardashian released an edited video showing a phone call between Taylor and Kanye in which she appeared to agree to the lyric.
In a 2023 interview with Time Magazine, Taylor opened up about how that incident impacted her mental health.
"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," she says. "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 anymore. I went down really, really hard."
Now, thanks to Ed Sheeran, we can add another chapter to the feud between the two of them.
Sheeran, who is friends with Taylor, recently shared a collection of never-before-seen photos from one of his old phones from 2015 to help promote his new song, "Old Phone." One of those photos included a clear shot that Taylor took at Kanye.
The photo shows a jar of jam presumably given to Sheeran by Taylor with a message written on it.
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"Yo Ed – I'm really happy 4 U and I'm gonna let u finish but this is the best JAM OF ALL TIME," Taylor wrote on the jar with the message clearly in reference to Kanye's infamous comments at the 2009 VMAs.
Taylor clearly never intended anyone but Sheeran to see the message, and that makes it all the better.