Controversial rapper Kanye West has dropped a new track titled Cousins as he claims it is about an incestuous relationship with a male cousin who is now jailed for murdering a woman.
While promoting his new track Cousins, Kanye made a claimed he had ab incestuous relationship with a male cousin when he was just child. In a post on Twitter, 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 goes by Ye, claims the cousin in question is now serving a life sentence for murdering a pregnant woman.
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.
Kanye hasn’t disclosed the identity of this relative but previously has spoken briefly 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 which is confirmed is the fact he was convicted of murder at the age of 17.
