Pop superstar Taylor Swift and rapper Kanye West have not been on the best of terms over the years and it appears that Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is on her side.
Kelce and Swift may have been dating for only about two years, but the ‘Cruel Summer’ singer and West have feuded for over a decade.
West’s stunt at the Grammy’s this past Sunday appeared to include the intention of meeting with Swift, whose album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ was up for multiple nominations.
But West and his barely-clothed ‘wife’ Bianca Censori were instead escorted out from the Crypto.com Arena and didn’t make contact with Swift.
On the heels of that, Kelce was asked a question about West at one of the media events ahead of Super Bowl LIX, where the Chiefs are set to take on the Philadelphia Eagles.
When asked by a reporter if he has any songs by the ‘Gold Digger’ rapper in his hype playlist, Kelce responded with a very flat, very stern ‘No’ before moving on to the next question.
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is sticking by his girlfriend, pop icon Taylor Swift
The couple have dated for about two years now and continue to be going strong
But at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, rapper Kanye West showed up uninvited and tried getting a picture with Swift. He also crashed the red carpet with barely-clothed ‘wife’ Bianca Censori.
Swift and West have been on poor terms ever since 2009 – when Kanye was at the height of his career and Swift was toward the beginning of her’s.
After winning the award for Best Female Video for ‘You Belong with Me’ at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, West rushed the stage, grabbed the mic, and interrupted her acceptance speech.
West was upset that Swift won over Beyonce’s ‘Single Ladies’, proclaiming ‘Taylor, I’m really happy for you, imma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time.’
His stunt led to widespread condemnation from media, fans, and even President Barack Obama.
The ‘Devil in a New Dress’ rapper followed that stunt up years later, when Swift was arguably at the peak of her powers after she release albums like ‘Speak Now’, ‘Red’, and ‘1989’.
But in April of 2016, West dropped the track ‘Famous’ off his album ‘The Life of Pablo’ wherein he said, ‘I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. I made that b****h famous.’
Swift criticized the rapper publicly at the time and said that she never consented to having that lyric placed in the song.
However, West said that he did, in fact, get her approval. His then-wife, Kim Kardashian, dropped video clips of Swift and West talking about the song amicably over the phone.
Swift and West haven’t been on good terms since this infamous incident at the 2009 VMAs
Swift and West haven’t been photographed together since the 2015 VMAs – pictured above
Swift has gone on to bigger and better things, earning six Grammy nominations this year
Years later, the full audio of the phone call emerged online and showed that the snippet Kim had shared had been edited.
It proved that Taylor told the truth about the call and that Kanye never consulted her about the ‘b***h’ lyric.
Cut to last Sunday. Unannounced, and uninvited, West brought his ‘wife’ Censori to the red carpet at the Grammys.
He had her take off a black fur coat to unveil a sheer dress with nothing else underneath it – exposing her entire body in front of the cameras.
Afterwards, reports emerged that Kanye was asked to leave the event after turning up uninvited, and was escorted out by police.
However, another source said they ‘left of their own accord,’ so the exact events remain unclear.
As for West’s attempts to get a pic with Swift, an insider told DailyMail.com that her inner circle would ‘not let this happen’.
‘Kanye will try to get a photo with Taylor anytime that he can, and this would be no different,’ they dished.
‘Taylor does not give this any space in her head and her friends and those around her would not let this happen. If Kanye wants to get a photo with Taylor, it will have to be on photoshop.’
West and Censori were reportedly asked to leave the Grammy’s after their red carpet stunt
Swift, meanwhile, enjoyed the show and even presented one of the awards of the evening
In one of his two rap album releases this year, West made a reference to Swift and Kelce
More than a decade on, Kanye recently referenced Taylor and Travis Kelce on his Vultures 2 album, which was released in August 2024.
In the track Lifestyle (Demo), the lyrics read: ‘I twist my Taylor spliffs tight at the end like Travis Kelce.’
Neither ‘Vultures 2’, nor an earlier release in 2024, titled ‘Vultures 1’ (both of which featured West and collaborator Ty Dolla Sign) were nominated at this year’s Grammys.
As for Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department,’ she failed to pick up a single award for the album that was dropped back in April.
Taylor was nominated six times at this year’s edition of the awards, but went 0-for-6.
