Kanye West Reveals Past Childhood Trauma in New Track, ‘COUSINS’

Kanye West opened up about an experience from his childhood in his new track, 'COUSINS.'

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Ye opened up about a disturbing childhood experience in a recent social media post.

by Megan Elliott

Published on April 21, 2025

Kanye West’s newest track details a disturbing experience from his childhood. 

On Monday, the rapper known as Ye took to social media to share a snippet of his song “COUSINS,” which he says describes an incestuous encounter he had with a male relative as a child.

“This song is called COUSINS,” Kanye said in an April 21 post on X, adding that new track is “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 troubled hip-hop star went on to say that he had blamed himself for what had happened when he was a child. 

“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 wrote. “My dad had playboy magazines but the magazines I found in the top of my moms closet were different.”

In the track, West raps about “reenacting” the things he saw in the magazines, including performing a sex act on his cousin.  

“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,” ‘COUSINS’ continues.  

West previously spoke briefly about his cousin during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2018. 

“You know, in this world that we live in, there’s two main motivating forces … it’s love or fear. And you can’t explain love. You know, my cousin is locked up for murder. And I love him. He did a bad thing, but I still love him. 

West’s latest shocking social media post came not long after he was spotted on a dinner date with his wife Bianca Censori in Spain. The pair – who wed in December 2022 – were rumored to be estranged following his recent string of controversial statements and anti-semitic posts on social media.

A few weeks ago, West shared a track, “BIANCA,” from his album WW3, where he said that Censori had left him after she “tried to get me commited.”

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