Kanye West Defends Taylor Swift Lyric in Twitter Spree: “Bitch Is an Endearing Term”

On Thursday unveiled his new album T.L.O.P., which features the line, “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that bitch famous.”

One day after the heavily hyped Madison Square Garden performance, Kanye took to Twitter to defend the controversial Taylor Swift reference:

I did not diss Taylor Swift and I’ve never dissed her…

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

First thing is I’m an artist and as an artist I will express how I feel with no censorship

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

2nd thing I asked my wife for her blessings and she was cool with it

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

3rd thing I called Taylor and had a hour long convo with her about the line and she thought it was funny and gave her blessings

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

4th Bitch is an endearing term in hip hop like the word Nigga

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

5th thing I’m not even gone take credit for the idea… it’s actually something Taylor came up with …

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

She was having dinner with one of our friends who’s name I will keep out of this and she told him

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

I can’t be mad at Kanye because he made me famous! #FACTS

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

6th Stop trying to demonize real artist Stop trying to compromise art

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

That’s why music is so fucking watered down right now I miss that DMX feeling

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

7th I miss that feeling so that’s what I want to help restore

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

8th They want to control us with money and perception and mute the culture

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

but you can see at Madison Square Garden that you can stop us

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

9th It felt like a seen from The Warriors ALL GODS ALL GODS ALL GODS in the buildin

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

not just the famous people there but the kids the moms the dads the families that came to share this moment with us

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 12, 2016

Prior to these tweets, a representative for Swift told Billboard she had cautioned West about “releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message” and that she was never told about the contentious lyric, “I made that bitch famous.”

Billboard has reached out to a publicist for Swift for further comment on West’s latest series of tweets.

This article originally appeared on billboard.com.