Disgraced Nazi-loving rapper Ye (former Kanye West) has admitted, “I sucked my cousins d**k till I was 14.” His admission accompanied his new release of a song entitled “Cousins.” His admission is complex and has garnered mixed reactions on social media.

In an X post published on Monday, Ye wrote, “This song 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[.] 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.”

Related

Former Ye staffer claims rapper directed vicious homophobia, racism & antisemitism at employees
The employee claims Ye once said “Gay people are controlled by Bill Gates so that they don’t have children for population control.”

Ye wrote that his father had Playboy magazines, but added, “the magazines I found in the top of my moms closet were different.”

Never Miss a Beat

Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights.
Subscribe to our Newsletter today

He ended the post by declaring, “My name is Ye and I sucked my cousins d**k till I was 14.”

It’s unclear if Ye has ever publicly declared his sexual orientation, but he was previously married to reality star Kim Kardashian and has publicly dated several women since their divorce in November 2022.

It’s also unclear how old Ye was when he began sexually interacting with his cousin or what age difference the two boys might’ve had. As such, his admission raises questions about consent, understanding, and possible abuse. Ye also publicly said in 2016 that he has bipolar disorder, a mental issue sometimes associated with psychosis, a mental state associated with a loss of contact with reality, hallucinations, and delusions. (Though he has also repeatedly suggested that he may have been misdiagnosed.)

Regardless, Ye’s post was met by many people accusing him of being gay or of harming his cousin, though other commenters responded with surprise and support.

“[I don’t know] how anyone could laugh at this,” one commenter wrote. “This is childhood trauma not to be taken lightly.” Another wrote, “This is heavy. If it’s trolling it’s not edgy, it’s deeply harmful. If it’s real, you’re clearly in pain. But pain doesn’t erase accountability. Please get help. Some things are too deep for the internet to hold.”

Another wrote, “You need to understand how Kanye works, and his marketing genius. I’m not discounting the trauma of this but he uses shock to drive his marketing campaigns.”

LGBTQ ​+ ​children and young people face are considered to be at higher risk of child sex abuse than their non-LGBTQ+ counterparts due to societal biases and discrimination, according to a 2024 article in Child Protection and Practice.

Right-wingers, like the ones that Ye has increasingly associated himself with, have long blamed LGBTQ+ people for sexually abusing children. However, “Statistically it’s adults who identify as straight who abuse the most children,” writes Pat Brothwell, who wrote about the issue for The Citizen Times.

“Putting the bulk of the blame on the LGBTQ community allows scores of adult groomers to continue their behavior unchecked and puts kids at risk,” Brothwell added.

In February, Ye was sued and dropped by his talent agency, 33 & West, after he published a series of antisemitic social media messages, including, “I’m a Nazi … I love Hitler.” During the most recent Super Bowl, he advertised the website of his fashion brand Yeezy, which prominently featured a swastika T-shirt for sale.

Despite (or because of) his antisemitism, his last two albums, Vultures 1 and Vultures 2, released in 2024, reached number 1 and 2 in the U.S. charts.

Subscribe to the LGBTQ Nation newsletter and be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.