Who is Kanye West's cousin in jail for murder as rapper releases shocking new track
Kayne West has made a series of shocking revelations once again and this time about his troubled childhood. The controversial rapper, who has shocked with his headline-grabbing stunts, has now released a brand new track with some very jaw-dropping lyrics.
Kanye, also known as Ye, made a claim about having incestuous relationship with a male cousin when he was a child in his song Cousins. While he has not named the cousin, he claims the relative is now locked behind bars for murder.
In a post on X, the musician claimed the pair would "act out" what they saw in pornographic magazines. The song has sparked an intense response online after it was released on Monday as the explicit track claims to detail a harrowing experience from Kayne's past.
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"
While Kanye has not disclosed the identity of his cousin in the track, he has previously spoke about an incarcerated relative. During an interview in 2018 with 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."
His ex-wife Kim Kardashian has also spoke of an incarcerated family member. 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."
Kim said that Kayne's aunt had accepted her son's fate. She added: "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 song that has shocked fans 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.
"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)."
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