Kanye West has sparked a storm of controversy once again and this time for his latest track, Cousins, which features some incredibly shocking lyrics. The rapper, who has pulled a series of headline-grabbing stunts in recent months, has now caused jaws to drop with revelations about his troubled childhood.
While promoting his new track Cousins, Kanye made a claim about having incestuous relationship with a male cousin when he was a child. In a post on X, he said the pair would “act out” what they saw in pornographic magazines.
He also shared a snippet of the song, which featured blurred visuals and semi-pornographic images stitched together. Kanye, who is also known as Ye, claims the cousin is now serving a life sentence for murder.
The song has sparked an intense response online after it was released on Monday. Cousins is an explicit track which claims to detail a harrowing experience from Kayne’s past.
Introducing the song on X, he wrote: “This song is called COUSINS about my cousin that’s locked in jail for life for killing a pregnant lady a few years after I told him we wouldn’t ‘look at dirty magazines together’ anymore.
“Perhaps in my self centered mess I felt it was my fault that I showed him those dirty magazines when he was 6 and then we acted out what we saw.
“My dad had playboy magazines but the magazines I found in the top of my moms closet were different”
The song kicks off: “I saw you outside again, just hanging out with your friends. Hanging with my cousin, reading dirty magazines.”
He continues: “Then we start re-enacting everything that we had seen. That’s when I gave my cousin head, gave my cousin head. Gave my cousin head, I gave my cousin head. I gave my cousin head.”
It continued: “Told my cousin not to tell nobody (Please, no, don’t tell nobody). People tell me take it to my grave. ‘Truth will set you free someday’. I don’t think they understand That I’m not attracted to a man (They thought I was gay).”
Kanye has never disclosed the identity of the relative but previously spoke of an incarcerated cousin during an interview in 2018. Speaking to Jimmy Kimmel, he said: “My cousin is locked up for murder and I love him. So he did a bad thing, but I still love him.”
Five years ago, his ex wife Kim Kardashian mentioned an incarcerated cousin in Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project. The only thing known about the cousin was the fact he was convicted of murder at the age of 17.
Speaking to Marc Howard, president of the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice and director of Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative, Kim explained: “[Kanye’s] cousin has a double life sentence for a murder that he committed when he was 17.”
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