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[quote=Anonymous]My beef is that Taylor Swift hasn't said a single thing about how 'bitch' is used in rap culture in the past. She had Kendrick Lamar sing in one of her songs, he calls women bitches in his songs. She invited TI to perform with her. She performed with Nelly, Fetty Wap, Wiz Khalifa and Jason Derulo on her 1989 tour. These people have all called women bitches, are all prominent in hip hop culture. Taylor Swift knows music, she knows Kanyes music, he wrote a whole song about his wife calling her a B.

Add that to the part of the video where she clearly greenlights the concept of him rapping about how he made her famous and you get a weird disconnect.

TS is a savvy intelligent musician who is very tuned in to the differences and trends in genres (see her seamless transition to pop music while still writing her own music). She is exceptionally in control of her image. Her social media counts seem painstakingly curated to promote an image of 'good girl makes it big and surrounds herself with the COOLEST most AWESOME friends and we all do amazing awesome things together!" That is not real life, so its intentional on her part. And good for her you know. But I simply don't believe that after an hour long conversation discussing lyrics at the depth that they were discussing them that she would be all Scarlett O Hara over a bitch reference. You can talk about misogyny in rap music without lying and throwing someone completely under the bus to make yourself look good.

I'm not going to say I 'approve' of the way women are talked about in rap music (I don't) but its also a way bigger problem then Kanye West and there are rappers I would single out long before I went to KW.

She has changed her story about this issue like 7 times, she's landed on something kind of lofty that is hard to criticize, a master move from a master strategizer. I just find it incredibly disingenuous, especially paired with the part of the call where she talks about being close to overexposure.

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