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Kanye Westās back and forth feelings toward longtime enemy Taylor Swift, 30, now has him in her corner and wanting to help her reclaim the master recordings to her first six albums. In a Sept. 18 tweet, the 43-year-old artist wrote, āIāM GOING TO PERSONALLY SEE TO IT THAT TAYLOR SWIFT GETS HER MASTERS BACK. SCOOTER IS A CLOSE FAMILY FRIEND,ā referring to talent manager and Taylorās masters owner Scooter Braun, 39. Kanye has worked with Scooter on and off over the years, and at one point served as his manager. HollywoodLife.com has reached out to Scooter, Taylorās rep and Kanyeās rep about his promise.
Scooter infamously bought the rights to Taylorās six-album catalog from her eponymous debut through Reputation āin perpituityā in June 2019 for $300 million. The singer at the time claimed she had no idea that her arch enemyās Ithaca Holdings was behind the purchase, and slammed him hard via her Tumbr account. Taylor wrote, āI learned about Scooter Braunās purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world. All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying Iāve received at his hands for years.ā
Whatās interesting about Kanyeās sudden desire to help Taylor acquire her masters is that she name checked him in her Tumblr post as one of Scooterās people who had been āincessantly bullyingā her. āLike when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it. (See photo),ā Taylor wrote in her June 30, 2019 post. She included a snapshot showing Scooter with his mega client Justin Bieber, 26, and Kanye, who were all smiles.
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āOr when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked,ā Taylor continued, referring to his āFamousā music video that featured a lifelike figure of her nude body. āNow Scooter has stripped me of my lifeās work, that I wasnāt given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it,ā Taylor continued, calling Scooterās purchase of her then-lifeās work, āmy worst case scenario.ā
Thereās probably not much that Kanye can actually do to help Taylor since Scooter legally purchased her catalog from Big Machine Records boss Scott Borchetta. Even Taylor wrote that āWhen I left my masters in Scottās hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words āScooter Braunā escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didnāt want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever.ā
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Kanyeās promise to Taylor came after after a Sept. 15 Twitter flex where he wrote, āMy kids gonna own my masters,ā after previously tweeting that he wanted to āsee everybodyās contracts at Universal [Music Group] and Sony.ā Ye then shared a text conversation with an unidentified party that read, ā[Regarding] masters ownership, we can look into buying. But if Taylorās cost $300 million, yours would cost a lot more, I assume.ā
Then came flurry of tweets on Sept. 16 that saw him temporary kicked off Twitter for tweeting the personal phone number to a top executive at Forbes magazine and calling him a āWhite supremacist.ā That same day he also shared a photo where he appeared to be peeing on his Grammy Award, which sat inside a toilet. Kanye then posted his entire 100 page record contract to Twitter as well.
Since his Twitter time out, Kanye has returned with more troubling posts, including one to his seven-year-old daughter North which he tweeted and deleted that read, āNORTHY I AM GOING TO WAR AND PUTTING MY LIFE ON THE LINE AND IF I AM MURDERED DONāT EVER LET WHITE MEDIA TELL YOU I WASNT A GOOD MANā¦ WHEN PEOPLE THREATEN TO TAKE YOU OUT OF MY LIFE JUST KNOW I LOVE YOU.ā
Kanyeās last major Twitter meltdown came in July 2020, where he aimed his feelings at wife Kim, lashing out that she was trying to get him ālocked upā and that he had been trying to divorce her. Kim later took to Twitter to address Kanyeās ongoing battle with bipolar disorder and that noted āhis words some times do not align with his intentions.ā