THIS is the last post in the KanTay Drama and we are ending on a CLIMAX.

Are you sitting down? Because you might just fall over halfway through reading this.

18th July, 2016

The plot massively thickens. Kanye's wife Kim Kardashian starts teasing that her Twitter followers should start following her on Snapchat also, where she later drops the BIGGEST of bombshells: a secret recording of Taylor Swifts conversation with Kanye, seemingly agreeing to the use of her name etc on his song Famous. The words "respect" and "friends" are also thrown around a lot in the conversation (mainly by Taylor).

WARNING: CONTAINS LANGUAGE SOME MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE

Kim’s release of the video proof gives us reason to crown her he Shade Queen. Because this, roomies, this is the ultimate shade thrown.

But Taylor gets pissed at being painted as a liar, saying she was never consulted about the fact she's referred to as a "bitch" in the song, and then posts an Instagram note saying she doesn't want to be involved in this "narrative" and never has done since it began in 2009.

*insert instagram post*

After the release of the video Kimye fans and Taylor fans turned Kimye flooded Taylors comment section on instagram with snakes on ALL of her posts.

 Soon after kim exposed Taylor, Kim Kardasion West, kanye west, Calvin Harris (Taylor’s ex-boyfriend) and many other A-list celebrities who had taken Kanyes side in the KanTay beef attended  party together.

This resulted in Kimye fans creating #KimExposedTaylorParty which consisted of many hilarious memes.

One of Taylors best friend Selena Gomez stood up for her friend with a series of tweets which she later deleted, wanna find out why? A fan put her in her place, take a look.

she tweeted:

There are more important things to talk about... Why can't people use their voice for something that f***ing matters?

— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) 18 July 2016

Truth is last thing we need right now is hate, in any form

— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) 18 July 2016

This industry is so disappointing yet the most influential smh

— Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) 18 July 2016

Following her tweets a fan called Selena out for not practicing what she's preaching. Selena then replied by slamming the fan for his comments.

The rest of the internet is not OK with Selena’s comments either and slammed Selena for her BLM comment as well!

This is what people had to say:

I'm still shocked at what selena tweeted about #blacklivesmatter  like how ignorant can you be #GoToSleepSelena

— ???? (@caringarianas) 18 July 2016

Telling people what to use their voice for when you don't even use your voice at your concerts...#GoToSleepSelena

— liam a. (@AUSTENLIAM) 18 July 2016

Selena i love you and all but keep your mouth shut and stick to your own business #gotosleepselena 

— Diana (@myluv4_9idiots) 18 July 2016

#GoToSleepSelena because you'd rather use your platform to defend your rat of a friend then talk about BLM or any tragedy that's taken place

— Orlando (@obey_jasonxx) 18 July 2016

 Oh, the shade... these are the questions to be asked though, how effectively are you using your platform Selena?

 #SelenaIsOverParty ?

Roommates, we’re here for it. Are you?

We hate to put a pause on the Kanye x Taylor drama again right in the middle of it’s Climax, but the world of music has been too wavy in the past month for the shade room NOT to comment on it. It seems like all hip-hop and R&B artists decided to drop their album around the same time, maybe there’s a Whatsapp group chat?

Here’s a  list of all A-List music that has been drpped by our favourite artists recently:

SremmLife 2 – Rae Shremmund

SremmLife 2 is the second studio album by American hip hop duo Rae Sremmurd and is a sequel to their debut studio album SremmLife.

Release date:  12 August 2016

Label: EarDrummers Entertainment and Interscope Records

Rating (out of 5) : 3.9

P3 – PARTYNEXTDOOR

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PARTYNEXTDOOR 3 is the second studio album by Canadian recording artist PARTYNEXTDOOR.

Release date: 12 August 2016

Label: OVO Sound and Warner Bros. Records.

Rating:  3.2

I Told You – Tory Lanez

I Told You is the debut studio album by Canadian hip hop recording artist Tory Lanez.

Release date:  19  August  2016

Label: Mad Love Records and Interscope Records

Rating: 3.19

Jeffery – Young thug

Jeffery is a mixtape by American rapper Young Thug.

Release date: 25 August 2016

Label: 300 Entertainment and Atlantic Records

Rating: 3.9

MC4 – French Montana (leaked)

MC4 is the upcoming second studio album by American rapper French Montana. It is set for official release on October 14, 2016

Leaked date: 25 August 2016

Label: Coke Boys, Bad Boy and Epic

Rating: 3.4

FRANK OCEAN!!!!!!!!!

Okay, so we HAD to give this man a shouty capitals, bold font AND double underlining , like, we had no choice. For one simple reason:

We all thought he was dead.

Frank Ocean is one of the most adored R&B singers and in our opinion, one of the best of all time. However, he’s been MIA since he dropped  his 2012 debut album FOUR YEARS AGO. The R&B singer has been starving us of his soul food and the world has become fustrated... to the point that he became a meme:

R&B singer has promised his fans an album multiple times and failed to deliver each and every time... until now.

Ladies and gentlemen i prestent to you the treasure you’ve been waiting for for four years:

Endless – Frank Ocean

Endless is a visual album by R&B American recording artist Frank Ocean.

Release date: 19 August 2016.

Label: Def Jam Recordings  

Rating: 4.5

But wait... there’s more?

Frank gifted us with ANOTHER album ONE DAY after the release of his visual album...

Ain’t God good?

Blonde – Frank Ocean

Blonde is the second studio album by Frank Ocean.

Release date: 20 August  2016

Label: Def Jam Recordings

Rating: 4.7

August  was too good to us, dont you agree?

New Words

Drop v.  – to release an album

The Kanye West and Taylor Swift Beef (PART 4)

Whoop! They had us fooled! That didn't last very long...
This feud will probably outlive all of us, especially now that it's evolved and mutated into a feud triangle. 
Take a look.

11 February 2016
Just when it's all going so well… Kanye debuts a new track by the name of 'Famous', and its lyrics include the following: "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex / Why? I made that b**** famous."
Yikes. Kanye claims that he sought Taylor's approval before the song's release : "I called Taylor and had a hour long convo with her about the line and she thought it was funny and gave her blessings."
Taylor's camp immediately denies this in a statement, claiming that Kanye hadn't run the lyrics past Taylor, but had instead asked her to promote the song: "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**** famous.'"

Here we go again...

16 June 2016
Kim Kardashian West stepped into the fray during a GQ interview in June, echoing Kanye's claim that Taylor had given her blessing to those 'Famous' lyrics, and later backtracked in order to play the victim.
"She totally approved that," Kim said. "She wanted to all of a sudden act like she didn't. I swear, my husband gets so much shit for things when he really was doing proper protocol and even called to get it approved."
And it didn't stop there – Kim went on to claim that the phone conversation in question, where Taylor approved the lyrics, had been recorded on camera.
"And then they sent an attorney's letter like 'Don't you dare do anything with that footage,' and asking us to destroy it."
We're gonna need to see those receipts, Kim.
25 June 2016 
Kanye being Kanye, the music video for 'Famous' was always going to add more fuel to the feud fire, but nobody quite saw this coming. 
The video begins with a shot of Kanye and Kim asleep in bed, and pans outwards to reveal a naked Taylor asleep on the other side of Kanye. Also snoozing nude in this bizarre fictional bed: Rihanna, Chris Brown, Donald Trump, Caitlyn Jenner, George W Bush, Anna Wintour, Ruby Rose, Ray J and Bill Cosby. Taylor is noticeably positioned right next to Kanye, which becomes even creepier in light of the "might still have sex" lyric. 
The celebrities were all confirmed to be lifelike waxworks rather than the real deal, but it remained unclear how many had agreed to their depictions in the video.

28 June 2016
Although there was no response from the Swift camp, one of Taylor's many BFFs Lena Dunham leapt to her defense in a justifiably angry Facebook post, which slammed the video for its apparent legitimization of rape culture. 
"Now I have to see the prone, unconscious, waxy bodies of famous women, twisted like they've been drugged and chucked aside at a rager?" Dunham wrote. "I'm sure that Bill Cosby doll being in the bed alongside Donald Trump is some kind of statement… I don't have a hip, cool reaction, because seeing a woman I love like Taylor Swift (f*** that one hurt to look at, I couldn't look), a woman I admire like Rihanna or Anna, reduced to a pair of waxy breasts made by some special effects guy in the Valley, it makes me feel sad and unsafe and worried for the teenage girls who watch this and may not understand that grainy roving camera as the stuff of snuff films."
Elsewhere, the question on everyone's lips was whether Taylor – or any of the celebrities in question – would grant Kanye's wish and sue over the video. 

DIS TEW MUCH!
Can someone open a window? It's getting too heated in The Shade Room,
Can it get anymore intense then this?

New Words
Dis pro. - slang for "this"

The Kanye West and Taylor Swift Beef (PART 3)

We're back and we're continuing with the beef that has taken the world by a storm.
We've come a long way into this beef and things are only getting WAY (and i'm not using this lightly) more heated.
In the past two post I explained what happened in the past, from here on out we're getting to the good ish.
Pay attention!
I'll dive straight into it.

February 2015
A new leaf has been seriously turned over. Not only are Taylor and Kanye super-pally backstage at the 2015 Grammys, but there are rumors of a collaboration, following Taylor's final transition out of country and into pop with 1989.
"She wants to get in the studio and we're definitely going to go in," Kanye tells Ryan Seacrest. "I don't have an elitism about music, I don't discriminate." A few days after the Grammys, the pair are seen grabbing dinner together at New York hotspot The Spotted Pig, adding grist to that rumor mill.

30 August 2015
At the 2015 VMAs, six years after the little interruption that started it all, Taylor presents Kanye with the Video Vanguard Award, the most public confirmation yet of their newfound alliance.

September 2015
Forget musical collaboration – Kanye and Taylor literally want to rule the world together. Or at least America. After Kanye announces his plans to run for  US President in 2020, Taylor volunteers as his running mate.
…Which would still make 2020 less wacky than the 2016 election.
Kanye even sent Taylor a huge bouquet of flowers as a symbol of their friendship which she posted a picture of on Instagram and became her most liked picture on the app

This was a pretty sweet post right? No drama, no shade... just butterflies and roses. But will it last?

Young Thug Stops New York fashion show.

I know this is a pause in the epic drama regarding the Kanylor beef but...
Hol' up, What??

Thugger, has been killing the fashion game for a while now, but this year has been one for the books. Thugger was one of the faces for Calvin Klien's fall collection, modeled tracksuits for the latest Puma Puma campaign, and his cover for his latest album JEFFERY made waves in the fashion and rap worlds alike.
Young Thug was recently called onto mentor a Designer's for FVILES Runway Season 7 for fashion show, and he more than delivered in his leadership role. During the show at New York Fashion Week on Wednesday night, Thug stopped one model in the middle of the runway in order to make some last minute adjustments to the outfit. Watch the video below.

Thugger, Thugger is tew MUCH! We love him though, right roomies?

New Words:
Hol' v. - contraction for "hold".
Tew n. - A cooler word for "too"

*BTW: Young Thug is a rapper

The Kanye West and Taylor swift Beef (PART 2)

So in the last post I introduced the  KanTay Swift drama to you and gave you a bit of background information on the situation. In this post I will just be extending you knowledge of the King of all Beefs!

September 15, 2009
Kanye appears on The Jay Leno Show, admitting "It was rude, period. I don't try to justify it, 'cause I was in the wrong. Dealing with the fact that I hurt someone or took anything away, you know, from a talented artist – or from anyone – because I only wanted to help people. My entire life, I've only wanted to do and give something that I felt was right and I immediately knew in this situation that it was wrong."
Meanwhile, Taylor addresses the incident on The View: "My overall thought process was something like: 'Wow, I can't believe I won, this is awesome, don't trip and fall, I'm gonna get to thank the fans, this is so cool. Oh, Kanye West is here. Cool haircut. What are you doing there?' And then, 'Ouch.' And then, 'I guess I'm not gonna get to thank the fans.'" She also confirms that Kanye has not reached out to her to apologise.
Following her appearance on The View, Kanye calls Taylor personally to apologise. "He was very sincere in his apology, and I accepted that apology," she said.

September 4, 2010
Kanye apologises publicly via the then-exciting-and-new social media platform of Twitter: "I'm sorry, Taylor," he wrote. "We're both artists, and the media and managers are trying to get between us. She deserves the apology more than anyone. Thank you [Twitter co-founders] Biz Stone and Evan Williams for creating a platform where we can communicate directly." During the heartfelt barrage of tweets, Kanye also reveals he's written a song for Taylor.
September 12, 2010

… But before we ever get to hear Kanye's song about Taylor, she releases one about him. At the 2010 VMAs, Taylor marks the one-year anniversary of the Kanye fiasco with a barefoot performance of her brand new song 'Innocent', which includes the lyrics "Who you are is not what you did / You're still an innocent." While fairly vague, most critics take the lyrics as a tacit blend of forgiveness and revenge, with The New York Times labeling the song "an extremely savvy insult masquerading as the high road

November 2010
Kanye backtracks on his apology in several separate interviews, claiming that interrupting Taylor was "selfless" and not arrogant on his part, because she didn't deserve to win the award. "Taylor never came to my defense at any interview," he complained, accusing Swift of exploiting the incident for publicity.

3 May 2011
Taylor and Kanye have at least publicly buried the hatchet. On the red carpet, at the Met Costume Institute Gala, "the two exchanged a casual, "down low" high five", but it's clear things are still strained.

11 June, 2013
Kanye all-but officially takes back his apology, telling The New York Times  that he only apologized in the first place because he'd caved to peer pressure. "I don't have one regret," he says of the VMAs incident.

Hectic, hey? Well, I'mma give you time to process that! 

What do you think roomies? Who's side are you on? What do you think will happen next?  We'll find out next time on The Shade Room 

The Taylor Swift and Kanye West beef (PART 1)

The ultimate beef in the world of celebrities this year has got to be the one between Kanye West and Taylor Swift. And because this is one of the most insane beefs of present day (and one that runs the deepest) I will be dedicating quite a few post to this. Now, most the real world has at least some background on the beef and knows some of what it entails, but for those who don't know anything, don't worry, I gotcha. 

For you to understand exactly what went down this year, you need to understand where all this shade hails from. This beef dates all the way back to the 2009 VMA Awards. 

September 13, 2009

It begins. On this fateful day in New York City, a 19-year-old Taylor was at the MTV Video Music Awards, accepting the Best Female Video award for  'You Belong with Me'. During her cute acceptance speech, Kanye jumped up on the stage and grabbed the mic, interrupting with the now-immortal words: "Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!"  If you still don't get it, Kanye basically said that Taylor's video shouldn't have won because Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)" was on a higher level of fleek. 
Kanye was promptly kicked out, while Beyonce used her Video of the Year win later in the evening as an opportunity to bring Swift back on stage, and let her finish her speech. Because no matter how trying the circumstances, Beyonce remains a flawless human being.

New Words:
Gotcha v.  - 1. Coming from "i got you" meaning "I understabd what you've communicated to me" or "I got your back"
I'mma v. - Slang for "I'm going to".
Fleek n. - An annoying term (neologism) used by teenagers meaning excellence.

BTW: Kanye West(rapper and designer) and Taylor Swift(singer) are music artists

Until next time!