Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar: A Complete Friendship Timeline

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. He's a Pulitzer winner. Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar are both legends in their respective corners of the music industry, and when they get together it's nothing short of amazing.

While the two are more like colleagues than besties, it's clear they have a mutual respect and friendship between them.Here's a complete Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar friendship timline.February, 2025: At the Grammys—where 1989, a decade prior, controversially beat To Pimp A Butterfly for AOTY—Lamar's “Not Like Us” wins record of the year, best rap song, and best music video.

Every time Lamar takes the stage, Swift is up and applauding, or offering a toast to her favorite rapper.October, 2023: With the release of 1989 (Taylor's Version) comes a new recording of “Bad Blood,” which Lamar went back to the studio to contribute to. “The reality that Kendrick would go back in and re-record ‘Bad Blood’ so that I could reclaim and own this work I’m so proud of is surreal and bewildering to me,” Swift gushes on Instagram, sharing a picture from the first time they collabed.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.February, 2016: Swift, Lamar, and “Bad Blood” co-star Selena Gomez say hey at the Grammys.May 2015: With the 1989 hype still going, Swift releases a remix of “Bad Blood” that features a verse from Lamar, who also appears in the star-studded music video as “Welvin Da Great.”(Though the song was something of a diss track from Swift to Katy Perry—and though Lamar is certainly no stranger to the art of the diss track—he that he wasn't aware of that context and has no side in the Swift-Perry feud.)“You forgive, you forget but you never let it…go” March 2015: When Lamar's album To Pimp A Butterfly goes on iTunes a week ahead of.