Taylor: "Kanye Needed To Respect Me 1st To Be My Friend"
Taylor Swift has spoken about how Jay Z helped mend the rift between her and Kanye West after the rapper interrupted her winner’s speech at the MTV VMAs in 2009.
The singer, who also gave her opinion on Spotify, calling the company a “startup with no cash flow”, told Vanity Fair that after becoming friends with Jay Z, she and West eventually developed a mutual “respect”.
“I feel like I wasn’t ready to be friends with [West] until I felt like he had some sort of respect for me, and he wasn’t ready to be friends with me until he had some sort of respect for me – so it was the same issue,” Swift said.
She added: “I became friends with Jay Z, and I think it was important, for Jay Z, for Kanye and I to get along...
Y'all try to turn everything into a negative. BYE 
she literally said she would not be his friend if he didn't respect her