Kanye West's New Song "Cousins" Confesses to Incest

[slooroo]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/2...st-cousin/

"Kanye West detailed a years-long, incestuous relationship with an unnamed cousin in his latest social media outburst.

In a post on X, Ye claims his new song “Cousins” is about how he and a now-incarcerated cousin sexually experimented with each other when they were children.

“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,” the 47-year-old “Runaway” rapper wrote.

“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,” he continued.

“My dad had playboy magazines but the magazines I found in the top of my moms closet were different,” he continued, before concluding: “My name is Ye and I sucked my cousins d— till I was 14.”

The song — through a video that appears to be a mix of found footage and animation — is also included in the post.

The lyrics offer more details of the supposed relationship."

I know Kanye isn't mentally stable but this is screwed up in any situation. Either he's telling the truth and that's screwed up or he's intentionally (or unintentionally depending his mental state) making it up and that's still screwed up. I have to wonder if the people who could still cling to him despite his Nazi beliefs (including two newer songs where he confesses to reading Mein Kampf regularly among other things) will still cling to him knowing this now.

[Kyng]

TBH I think this is enough of a 'music' story to belong in Music and Audio (after all, it deals directly with his song lyrics), so I've moved it there .

But yes, I think it should go without saying that this is completely screwed up . I really hope it's not true, but even if it isn't, it's yet another sign that he's beyond mentally unstable, and in desperate need of help.

[Velocity Girl]

I hate that I had to read this news (I first read it on Twitter). But yeah, absolutely messed up.