A Strange and Disturbing Update from Kanye West

Trigger warning for sexual abuse and incest

Kanye West, or Ye, as what’s left of his fans call him, has officially gone off the rails. Again. “I sucked my cousin’s d*** til I was 14,” reads a tweet posted by West on Monday. What the hell is this mess? It’s apparently to introduce his new single, “Cousins.”

Hmm … a desperate plea for attention, or a painful truth, finally exposed after years of hiding? Both? Neither? Some other unhinged motive behind making such a bold yet sour-tasting statement? I don’t really know, but it is definitely not out of the ordinary for West to fling outrageous statements out into the world in whatever way he can. The man went viral for tweeting “IM A NAZI,” and we’ve barely had time to get over that before this bomb got dropped on us.

The track itself is, to be blunt, a painful listen, at least going by this unofficial leak of the song:

Ye’s falsetto, to put it lightly, doesn’t quite lend itself well to telling the story of him and his cousin reenacting gay porn magazines found on top of West’s mother’s closet. Oh, and to top it off, the aforementioned cousin “kill(ed) a pregnant lady a few years after” Ye finally put a stop to the incest. There’s a lot to unpack here, but really, we would rather return this package to the sender. 

The cherry on top, of course, is that the nearly-universally hated makeup artist and butcherer of yaks Jeffree Star is involved. Or, could be. “Ok fuck it… The rumors were true,” he tweeted on April 22, shortly following West’s bomb drop on X. 

The update follows a seeming reconciliation between West and his wife Bianca Censori, the Australian architect most known for her work with Yeezy. Apparently the two are no longer getting divorced, and Censori will continue to accompany her Nazi-identifying husband to manufacture bizarre and purposeful wardrobe malfunctions, looking more and more like Kim every day. Oh, great, literally as this post itself is being written, the pair are in Spain shopping at the sex store. Good for them, I guess? Or damn, that’s crazy? Honestly, whatever Ye wants to hear at this point. I’m tired. 

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