Kanye West has made a shock claim that he took part in incestuous acts with his cousin as a child.
A tweet posted from the rapper’s X account on Easter Monday, claimed the 47-year-old rapper was releasing a song called Cousin, inspired by a relative that was jailed for life for ‘killing a pregnant lady’.
Kanye has previously spoken about an incarcerated cousin but has never referred to him by name, only stating that he was jailed aged 17.
Sharing a music video for the song, the tweet claimed that he gave his cousin oral sex when he was a child and he now blames himself for the violent act that followed.
Kanye’s post read: ‘This song is called COUSIN 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.
Kanye West made a shock claim he took part in childhood sexual acts with his cousin – and subsequently blames himself because they went onto ‘murder a pregnant woman’
Sharing a music video for the song, the tweet claimed he gave his cousin oral sex when he was a child and he now blames himself for the violent act that followed (Kanye pictured as a child)
A tweet posted from the rapper’s X account on Easter Monday, claimed the 47-year-old rapper was releasing a song called Cousin, inspired by a relative that was jailed for life
‘My name is Ye and I sucked my cousins d**k till I was 14. Tweet sent.’
In the music video, which features a bizarre string of nonsensical clips and gifs, including a topless woman with Nazi swastikas for nipples, Kanye sings repeatedly: ‘I gave my cousin he*d’, adding ‘I told my cousin not to tell nobody.’
He added: ‘The truth will set you free someday, I don’t think they understand that I’m not attracted to a man’.
In an apparent reference to his recent brief split from wife Bianca Censori, he continued: ‘I told you, don’t leave me, I need you by my side.
‘That one time you left me, I didn’t get no sleep that night… If you don’t leave me, I’ll probably be alright.’
Little is known about Kanye’s cousin – who his ex-wife Kim Kardashian previously brought up in a documentary.
Speaking to Marc Howard, president of the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice and director of Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative, Kim said: ‘[Kanye’s] cousin has a double life sentence for a murder that he committed when he was 17.
Kim added that Kanye’s aunt has accepted her son’s fate, stating: ‘She’s like, “I’m not even that distraught anymore. Like, that’s just what happens to the kids in our neighbourhood.” There’s just no other choice.’
The only other time anyone publicly mentioned the cousin was when Kanye brought him up in an interview in 2018.
Speaking to Jimmy Kimmel, during a rant about approaching Donald Trump with love, he mentioned: ‘My cousin is locked up for murder and I love him. So he did a bad thing, but I still love him.’
MailOnline has contacted Kanye and Bianca’s representatives for comment.
In the music video, which features a bizarre string of nonsensical clips and gifs, Kanye sings repeatedly: ‘I gave my cousin he*d’, adding ‘I told my cousin not to tell nobody.’
The music video also features an image of a topless woman with Nazi swastikas for nipples
In recent months, fans have expressed concern for Kanye following a string of erratic social media posts.
In February, his account was deactivated following an array of vile sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic rants.
However, his profile suddenly reappeared on the platform three days later.
His posts have continued to shock and offend, with the rapper typically deleting his tweets after a few days before going on another rant.
Kanye was first accused of antisemitism in 2022 after making a series of racist and anti-Semitic remarks.
However, he later apologized, insisting it was not his ‘intention to hurt or demean’ the Jewish community.
Yet in a rambling U-turn, he penned a series of posts on X, claiming that he will never ‘trust or work with Jewish people’ again and insisting he ‘will not apologise’ for his views.
Kanye previously rapped about being ‘dumped’ by Censori.
The lyrics seemed to indicate that Bianca had ended the marriage, and he rapped that she allegedly ‘tried to get [him] committed’ while they were together.
The track is expected to be featured on his upcoming album, reportedly titled WW3.
Kanye previously addressed concerns that his wife Bianca is a victim of coercive control after her naked outing at the Grammys, claiming he has ‘dominion’ over her.
Bianca was said to believe starting a family could help her rapper husband to stay out of the endless controversy he is courting, and in turn strengthen their marriage after his recent offensive behavior reportedly forced her to contemplate divorce.
In an apparent reference to his recent brief split from wife Bianca Censori, he continued: ‘I told you, don’t leave me, I need you by my side’
‘Bianca is encouraging Kanye to have a baby, believing it will save their marriage and heal their relationship,’ sources previously told DailyMail.com.
The Chicago rapper, who now goes by Ye, recently fled the country and travelled to Tokyo after posting a series of increasingly erratic posts in which he clashed with his ex-wife about co-parenting their 11-year-old daughter, North.
Kanye previously revealed he has bipolar disorder but recently claimed it was a misdiagnosis and he has since been diagnosed with autism.
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