How Did We Get Here? A Timeline of the Taylor Swift, Kanye West, and Kim Kardashian Drama

At the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me" snagged the award for best female video. During the singer's acceptance speech, though, Kanye West took the microphone from her hand, told her he would let her finish, and insisted that Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" video was one of the best videos of all time. Bey's video, for the record, took home best video of the year.

Kanye immediately did some damage control after the incident. He appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jay Leno and said, "I immediately knew in the situation that it was wrong . . . I would like to apologize to her in person." He also broke down in tears when Jay asked how his late mother would have felt about the situation.

The next day, Taylor shared her inner monologue on The View. "Ouch," Taylor said when asked what she was thinking as he made his outburst. "And then, 'I guess I'm not going to get to thank the fans.'" The hosts of the show then brought up the aforementioned Jay Leno interview and asked if she'd be willing to meet with him. "Sure," she answered. "I mean, he has not personally reached out or anything. But, if he wanted to say hi."

Shortly after Taylor's chat on The View, Kanye reached out to make an official apology. "Kanye did call me, and he was very sincere in his apology, and I accepted that apology," Taylor said in an interview with ABC News Radio. And that was that.

The following year, at the 2010 MTV VMAs, Taylor sang a new song from her soon-to-be-dropped Speak Now album. The song was called "Innocent," and it was widely speculated that Taylor meant to address the whole Kanye mess. The performance seemed to confirm the rumors, as Taylor projected clips of the 2009 incident on a large screen before she started singing.

More than a year after the incident occurred, Kanye still seemed to be rueful about his actions, but he'd gotten to a place where he was trying to justify his motives. "I feel like, in some ways, like I'm a soldier of culture," he said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. "And I realize that no one wants that to be my job, and I'll never go on stage again, and I'll never sit in an award show again. But, will I feel convicted about things that really meant stuff to culture, that constantly get denied for years and years and years and years? I'm sorry. I will."

By the time 2013 rolled around, Kanye seemed to be over the whole situation. The rapper told The New York Times, "[My instinct] has only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It's only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That's all it is." He also stated, though, "I don't have one regret," and that, "If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now."

At the 2015 MTV VMAs, Taylor presented Kanye with an esteemed honor: the Video Vanguard Award. During her speech, Taylor referenced the "infamous encounter" and even poked fun at the moment. "I'm really happy for you, and I'mma let you finish," she said, "but Kanye West has had one of the greatest careers of all time!"

As Kanye debuted Yeezy Season 3 in NYC, he also played his new album, The Life of Pablo. One lyric in particular piqued the interest of audience members and the internet universe alike. In "Famous," Kanye raps, "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / I made that b*tch famous."

Taylor was quick to release a statement about the song and lyrics in question. According to her spokesperson, "Kanye did not call for approval, but to ask Taylor to release his single 'Famous' on her Twitter account. She declined and cautioned him about releasing a song with such a strong misogynistic message. Taylor was never made aware of the actual lyric, 'I made that b*tch famous.'"

In June, Kanye released a highly controversial music video for the song. The ending shot of the music video features an arresting tableau of naked celebrities. They're all lying in a very large bed with Kim and Kanye. Directly on the rapper's right is a nude and exposed Taylor.

In an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Kim discusses the controversy with Kourtney Kardashian. She says Taylor's Grammy Awards speech was "just another way to play the victim" and "it definitely got her a lot of attention the first time." Later, she reveals to the camera that she's tired of "people blatantly treating my husband a certain way and trying to make him look a certain way."

As the episode in question aired, Kim made it quite clear she wasn't done with Taylor. On her Snapchat, the star posted the entire conversation between Kanye and Taylor. In the clip, Kanye asks for Taylor's input on the lyrics, and she responds, "Go with whatever line you think is better. It's obviously very tongue in cheek either way. And I really appreciate you telling me about it, that's really nice!"

After a year of staying almost completely out of the spotlight, Taylor returned with a bang. She released her new single, "Look What You Made Me Do," shortly after announcing her new album, Reputation. The song, along with the video, is full of references to Kanye and their feud. And just like Kanye did when he premiered his music video for "Fade" at the MTV VMAs in 2016, Taylor released the song's official video at this year's show.

Despite the multiple Kim and Kanye references in Taylor's "Look What You Made Me Do," it looks like the couple isn't phased by any of it. "Kim and Kanye don't care about Taylor's new music," a source told People. "They find it pathetic that she still tries to keep an old feud going. They are not going to give her or her new music any attention. They have more important things to focus on, like their family."

During the opening night of her Reputation tour in Glendale, AZ, the singer briefly opened up about her drama with Kim and Kanye and used it as a way to empower her fans. "A couple of years ago, someone called me a snake on social media, and it caught on," she said, alluding to Kim. "I went through some times when I didn't know if I was going to get to do this anymore. I wanted to send a message to you guys that if someone uses name-calling to bully you on social media, and even if a lot of people jump on board with it, that doesn't have to defeat you. It can strengthen you instead."

So now, we wait and see what happens next. Only time will tell. Then again, maybe Kim and Kanye won't respond at all.

During an appearance on Watch What Happens Live, Kim told Andy Cohen that her beef with Taylor was over. "I feel like we've all moved on," she said. Shortly after, Kim indicated that she was "making peace" with Taylor by sharing a video of her listening to the singer's song "Delicate" on her Snapchat.

The drama resurfaced when a YouTube account leaked a supposedly unedited version of the call between the artists from 2016. In the video, Kanye runs certain lyrics by Taylor over the phone but notably does not ask for her approval of the now-infamous line, "I made that b*tch famous." Kanye also asks Taylor to share the track on Twitter as promotion, and she responds hesitantly. "I guess it would just be, people would be like, 'Why is this happening?' And I had something to do with it, probably," she says.

Later in the call, Kanye runs another lyric idea by Taylor. "What if I said I made you famous?" he asks. She doesn't sound comfortable with this line. "Did you say that? Oh God, well, what am I going to do about it at this point?" she says. "It's just kind of, like, whatever at this point, but I mean, you gotta tell the story the way it happened to you and the way that you experienced it." She continues: "You honestly didn't know who I was before that. It doesn't matter if I sold 7 million of that album before you did that, which is what happened. You didn't know who I was before that and that's fine. Yeah, I can't wait to hear it."