Kanye West, now known as Ye, is once again stirring controversy and this time he’s dragging Taylor Swift into it. The rapper has claimed that the pop star is partly to blame for why he has never performed at the Super Bowl halftime show.

In a tweet that was quickly deleted, Ye laid out what he believes are the three main reasons he’s been kept from the iconic halftime stage.

“I was never allowed to do the Super Bowl because of three moments,” he wrote. “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people. The Taylor Swift movement moment. Wearing a MAGA hat.”

He was referencing his infamous remarks during a Hurricane Katrina fundraiser his long-standing feud with Swift, and his public support for former President Donald Trump.

The Taylor Swift “moment” Ye refers to dates back to the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, where he infamously interrupted Swift’s acceptance speech to praise Beyoncé. Their relationship has remained strained ever since. The drama escalated again in 2016 when Ye released the song Famous, which included lyrics about Swift that she said were used without her consent.

Their feud, long thought to be cooling down, reignited earlier this year when Ye criticized Swift for dancing during Kendrick Lamar’s performance at the 2025 Grammys.

Adding fuel to the fire, Ye wrote in his tweet, “How it feel to be the best living and blocked from the main stage because of being ahead of my time.” He controversially added, “And I mean all of this was before I went full Nazi of course,” referencing his widely condemned statements from late 2022.

Though Ye has never performed during the official Super Bowl halftime show, he did take part in a 2015 pre-Super Bowl event alongside Rihanna. Yet, for Ye, that spotlight seems not nearly enough.