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Kanye “Ye” West<\/a> is name dropping <\/span>Taylor Swift<\/a> once again. The embattled rapper references Swift on his new song, “Carnival,” which is featured on his <\/span>Vultures 1<\/span><\/em> collaborative album with <\/span>Ty Dolla $ign<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Swift’s name comes amid a pop culture-heavy verse that also includes <\/span>direct mentions of<\/a> <\/span>Game of Thrones<\/span><\/em>, Elon Musk, R. Kelly, Bill Cosby and Sean “Diddy” Combs, among other veiled references.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “I made six Taylor Swifts \/ Since I had the Rollie on my wrist,” he raps on the track.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n On Sunday, a\u00a0<\/span>video surfaced on social media<\/a> that shows Ye recording in a crowded room. See the clip and hear the verse below.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n WARNING: NSFW LANGUAGE.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n “Carnival” comes eight years after Ye reignited his feud with the pop star by referencing her in his 2016 song “Famous.”\u00a0In the song, West rapped, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex \/ Why? I made that b***h famous.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Of course, prior to that, Ye famously crashed the stage and <\/span>interrupted Swift’s acceptance speech<\/a> during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Swift claimed she never consented to West’s “Famous” lyric in reference to her, though the rapper and his then-wife, <\/span>Kim Kardashian<\/a>, insisted the singer signed off on the line. Kardashian later\u00a0went so far as to release\u00a0<\/span>an edited video<\/a>\u00a0of a phone call between the artists during an episode of <\/span>Keeping Up With the Kardashians\u00a0<\/span><\/em>that seemed to show the moment Swift OK’d the lyric. However, when\u00a0<\/span>the full clip of the call<\/a>\u00a0was later dug up by Swifties, it became evident that the pop star had been told about a different lyric.<\/span><\/p>\n In the unedited video, after West tells Swift to “brace herself” to hear his proposed line, Swift asks, “Is it gonna be mean?”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “No, I don’t think it’s mean,” West replies.<\/span><\/p>\n He then shares the lyric, rapping, “I feel like Taylor Swift might owe me sex,” with Swift laughing in response and saying, “That’s not mean.”<\/span><\/p>\n At no point in the video is the line “I made that b**ch famous” discussed, and in fact, Swift expresses her worry that West was going to call her a “b**ch” in the song.<\/span><\/p>\n “It doesn\u2019t feel mean,” she says again of the line, “but like, oh my god, the build-up you gave it. I thought it was gonna be like, ‘That stupid, dumb b**ch,’ like, but it\u2019s not.”<\/span><\/p>\n Recently, Swift called the incident a “fully manufactured frame job” in an interview with\u00a0<\/span>Time<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “[It was] an illegally recorded phone call, which Kim Kardashian edited and then put out to say to everyone that I was a liar,” she\u00a0<\/span>recalled in her 2023 Person of the Year feature<\/a>. “Make no mistake \u2014my career was taken away from me… I thought that moment of backlash was going to define me negatively for the rest of my life.”<\/span><\/p>\n She continued,\u00a0“That took me down psychologically to a place I’ve never been before,” Swift said of the public feud. “I moved to a foreign country. I didn\u2019t 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.”<\/span><\/p>\n Swift publicly reemerged in 2017 with her album,\u00a0<\/span>Reputation<\/span><\/em>, which appeared to serve as\u00a0<\/span>a scathing response<\/a>\u00a0to the fallout with West in the form of her fiery single, “Look What You Made Me Do.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Vultures 1 <\/span><\/em>is Ye’s first release since he drew widespread criticism and condemnation beginning in October 2022 for making\u00a0<\/span>several antisemitic remarks<\/a>, including his alleged plan to go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The rapper’s remarks led to\u00a0<\/span>his Instagram account being restricted<\/a>\u00a0and the post in question being deleted. Similarly, the rapper and fashion mogul’s tweets were removed from Twitter (now X) due to a violation of the platform’s policies.<\/span><\/p>\n The antisemitic posts came on the heels of West’s controversial\u00a0<\/span>“White Lives Matter” shirts<\/a>, which he debuted at Paris Fashion Week earlier that month.<\/span><\/p>\n The rapper\u00a0<\/span>issued a mea culpa<\/a>\u00a0on Instagram in December 2023 ahead of his album release.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any unintended outburst caused by my words or actions,” West’s statement read in Hebrew, via Google Translate. “It was not my intention to offend or disrespect.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He added, “I deeply regret any pain I may have caused. I am committed to starting with myself and learning from this experience to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future. Your forgiveness is important to me, and I am committed to making amends and promoting unity.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Vultures 1<\/span><\/i>\u00a0was set to be released on Friday and, after several delays, it is now available on\u00a0<\/span>Spotify<\/a>. There was a new single from the project, titled “Talking \/ Once Again,” released on Friday, which features West’s 10-year-old daughter,\u00a0<\/span>North West<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Since the album’s release, both\u00a0<\/span>Ozzy Osbourne<\/a>\u00a0and the estate of Donna Summer have come forward to say that Ye sampled their work without permission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n