Overview

• Kanye West released a song titled 'Cousins,' in which he reveals an incestuous sexual relationship with his male cousin that lasted until he was 14.
• The song connects this childhood experience to his cousin's later conviction and life sentence for murdering a pregnant woman.
• West attributes feelings of guilt to exposing his cousin to explicit magazines found in his late mother Donda West’s closet, which they reenacted as children.
• The music video includes provocative visuals such as semi-pornographic imagery and a controversial cartoon depicting West falling from the World Trade Center on 9/11.
• Public reaction to the song and its revelations has been sharply divided, with some expressing sympathy for West’s trauma and others accusing him of seeking attention.