Amid these afterthoughts, is it any wonder that "Famous" quickly emerged as the album's most talked-about track? It's an example of just how brilliant and infuriating West can be at the same time. It blends a dramatic confessional-style vocal by Rihanna, an equally powerful Nina Simone sample and a wordless vocal hook from Sister Nancy's reggae classic "Bam Bam" into a would-be anthem. But it's all undone by one of the most ridiculous and distasteful lines in the West songbook: "I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. / Why? I made that (expletive) famous." Well, no, Kanye, Swift had already sold millions of records by the time you bum-rushed her acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2009, but let's not let reality stand in the way of a line that churned social media outrage for days.