What in The White Lotus is going on with Kanye West? In case Nazism, white supremacy and defending accused sex trafficker P Diddy wasn’t enough, Ye has finally broken the final taboo: incest.
The 47-year-old rapper went on another of his manic X rants today, this time in promotion of his new music. Along with sharing the news that his newest track will be called Cousins, he also shared a few... personal stories.
“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,” he told his 33m followers.
“Perhaps in my self-centred mess, I felt it was my fault that I showed him those dirty magazines when he was six and then we acted out what we saw.”
This comes after news broke last month that Ye’s Australian architect wife, Bianca Censori, had chosen to leave Kanye West, with West confirming the split himself. However, the couple was recently spotted on a dinner date in Rome, so the jury is still out on that one.
In his salacious X post, Ye continued: “My dad had Playboy magazines but the magazines I found in the top of my moms closet were different.”
Kanye’s mother, Donda West, died in 2007, but Kanye has recently taken to sharing theories that she was a lesbian. In a tweet from last week, he alleged he had once witnessed her being intimate with his babysitter.
“My name is Ye and I sucked my cousins d*** till I was 14,” he concluded in his post, adding, “Tweet sent.”
On the track, West reaffirms these claims, saying: “Hanging with my cousin reading dirty magazines / We seen some n—as kiss, and we ain’t know what that s–t mean / Then we start reenacting everything that we had seen / That’s when I gave my cousin head.”
“People tell me take it to my grave,” he continues. “‘Truth will set you free someday.’ I don’t think they understand that I’m not attracted to a man.”
The accompanying video is full of grainy, home-video style footage and contains some disturbing imagery, like a woman with swastikas for nipples, a sign that reads “4 f****ts” and a burning cross.
Both Kanye West and Kim Kardashian have previously referenced his incarcerated cousin in public interviews. Kanye told Jimmy Kimmel in August 2018, “My cousin is locked up for murder, and I love him. He did a bad thing, but I still love him.”
Meanwhile, Kim K — who shares four children with Kanye, aged between five and 11 years old — referenced the cousin during her meeting with Marc M. Howard, president of the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice organisation, back in April 2020.
Kardashian, who is a vocal advocate for prison reform, explained at the time: “Kanye’s aunt, my husband’s aunt, his cousin has a double life sentence for a murder that he committed when he was 17.”
