Watch: Kanye West Apologizes to Jay-Z for Comments on His, Beyoncé’s Kids
Content Warning: This story discusses sexual contact of minors.
Kanye West is sharing his side of a traumatic childhood encounter.
The “Stronger” rapper alleged that he had a sexual relationship with one of his relatives as kid—an experience that he said inspired his forthcoming song called “Cousins.”
“This song is called COUSINS,” Kanye said in an April 21 post on X (formerly Twitter) teasing the new track, “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 Grammy winner went on to say that he felt responsible for engaging in the activity with his cousin, who he did not identify.
“Perhaps in my self centered mess I felt it was my fault that I showed him those dirty magazines when he was 6,” Kanye continued, “and then we acted out what we saw.”
And the 47-year-old also also shared where he allegedly found the X-rated publications, saying, “My dad had playboy magazines but the magazines I found in the top of my moms closet were different.”
Kanye added, “My name is Ye and I sucked my cousins d–k till I was 14.”
This isn’t the first confession the Yeezy founder—who shares kids North, 11, Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 5, with ex-wife Kim Kardashian—has made about his past as of late.
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Earlier this month, Kanye apologized to his former friend Jay-Z for a since-deleted message he shared on social media that questioned the mental capacity of the “Empire State of Mind” rapper and wife Beyoncé‘s 7-year-old twins Rumi Carter and Sir Carter.
“I’m sorry Jay Z,” Kanye wrote on X April 10. “I be feeling bad about my tweet but I still feel I gave my life to this industry and thought so many people were my family but when I needed family on some real s–t none of these rap n—-s had my back.”
E! News reached out to Jay-Z’s rep for comment at the time but did not hear back.
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