Kanye West has spoken out after claiming that he took part in incestuous acts with his male cousin as a child.
The rapper, 47, shocked his X followers on Monday when he made the announcement while unveiling his new song, Cousin.
Shortly afterwards, fellow rapper Ferg reached out, tweeting: ‘Good for @kanyewest now you can be whole. When people start to act out you never know the root of the issue ! Sending love brother your a goat.’
Showing his agreement with the post, Kanye retweeted the message the following day, adding a single black heart emoji.
As well as Ferg, Kanye revealed he was being supported by his wife Bianca Censori as he shared a snap of the pair together.
The Touch The Sky hitmaker and the Australian architect’s tumultuous marriage appears to be on the mend, despite him recently rapping about being ‘dumped’ by her.
Kanye West has agreed with fellow rapper Ferg’s claims that his childhood incest trauma is why he ‘acts out’ (pictured together in 2017)
Kanye retweeted Ferg’s post: ‘Good for @kanyewest now you can be whole. When people start to act out you never know the root of the issue ! Sending love brother your a goat’
As well as Ferg, Kanye revealed he was being supported by his wife Bianca Censori as he shared a snap of the pair together, having earlier shared a version of the pic in colour
After startling fans on Easter Monday with his incest claim, the father-of-four shared a photo of him and Bianca, 30, to X with the caption ‘fit pic.’
Bianca showed off her edgy style in a silk baby blue corset-style bodysuit as she posed next to the controversial musician in the snap.
Over-the-thigh black leather boots completed her look, while her raven tresses were styled in a chicly undone updo.
Meanwhile Kanye stood slightly behind her in a black jacket with a hood and matching black pants.
He later claimed that he ‘didn’t love the blue’ in the image, adding: ‘Should have posted black and white.’
Earlier in the day Kanye took to X claiming he took part in incestuous acts with his cousin.
A tweet posted from the rapper’s account claimed the musician was releasing a song called Cousin, inspired by a relative that was jailed for life for ‘killing a pregnant lady’.
Kanye has previously spoken about an incarcerated cousin but has never referred to him by name, only stating that he was jailed aged 17.
The day before, Kanye claimed he gave his cousin oral sex when he was a child and he now blames himself for the violent act that followed (Kanye pictured as a child)
A tweet posted from the rapper’s X account claimed he was releasing a song called Cousin, inspired by a relative that was jailed for life
Sharing a music video for the song, the tweet claimed that he gave his cousin oral sex when he was a child and he now blames himself for the violent act that followed.
Kanye’s post read: ‘This song is called COUSIN 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. My dad had playboy magazines but the magazines I found in the top of my moms closet were different.’
‘My name is Ye and I sucked my cousins d**k till I was 14. Tweet sent.’
In the music video, which features a bizarre string of nonsensical clips and gifs, including a topless woman with Nazi swastikas for nipples, Kanye sings repeatedly: ‘I gave my cousin he*d’, adding ‘I told my cousin not to tell nobody.’
He added: ‘The truth will set you free someday, I don’t think they understand that I’m not attracted to a man’.
In an apparent reference to his recent brief split from wife Bianca, he continued: ‘I told you, don’t leave me, I need you by my side.’
‘That one time you left me, I didn’t get no sleep that night… If you don’t leave me, I’ll probably be alright.’
After startling fans on Easter Monday with his incest claim, the father-of-four shared a photo of him and Bianca to his X with the caption ‘fit pic’
Little is known about Kanye’s cousin – who his ex-wife Kim Kardashian previously brought up in a documentary.
Speaking to Marc Howard, president of the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice and director of Georgetown University’s Prisons and Justice Initiative, Kim said: ‘[Kanye’s] cousin has a double life sentence for a murder that he committed when he was 17.’
Kim added that Kanye’s aunt has accepted her son’s fate, stating: ‘She’s like, “I’m not even that distraught anymore. Like, that’s just what happens to the kids in our neighbourhood.” There’s just no other choice.’
The only other time anyone publicly mentioned the cousin was when Kanye brought him up in an interview in 2018.
Speaking to Jimmy Kimmel, during a rant about approaching Donald Trump with love, he mentioned: ‘My cousin is locked up for murder and I love him. So he did a bad thing, but I still love him.’
MailOnline has contacted Kanye and Bianca’s representatives for comment.
Kanye and Bianca seem to have patched up their differences after they were spotted reuniting during a trip to Spain earlier this month.
The two were seen dining together at an Indian restaurant in the Balearic Islands on Friday in video obtained by DailyMail.com.
In the music video, which features a bizarre string of nonsensical clips and gifs, Kanye sings repeatedly: ‘I gave my cousin he*d’, adding ‘I told my cousin not to tell nobody’
The music video also features an image of a topless woman with Nazi swastikas for nipples
In recent months, fans have expressed concern for Kanye following a string of erratic social media posts.
In February, his account was deactivated following an array of vile sexist, homophobic and anti-Semitic rants.
However, his profile suddenly reappeared on the platform three days later.
His posts have continued to shock and offend, with the rapper typically deleting his tweets after a few days before going on another rant.
Kanye was first accused of antisemitism in 2022 after making a series of racist and anti-Semitic remarks.
However, he later apologized, insisting it was not his ‘intention to hurt or demean’ the Jewish community.
Yet in a rambling U-turn, he penned a series of posts on X, claiming that he will never ‘trust or work with Jewish people’ again and insisting he ‘will not apologise’ for his views.
Kanye previously rapped about being ‘dumped’ by Censori.
The lyrics seemed to indicate that Bianca had ended the marriage, and he rapped that she allegedly ‘tried to get [him] committed’ while they were together.
The track is expected to be featured on his upcoming album, reportedly titled WW3.
In an apparent reference to his recent brief split from wife Bianca, he continued: ‘I told you, don’t leave me, I need you by my side’
Kanye shares four kids with reality TV star Kim Kardashian, 44, to whom he was married from 2014 until 2022; the former pair seen in 2019
Kanye previously addressed concerns that his wife Bianca is a victim of coercive control after her naked outing at the Grammys, claiming he has ‘dominion’ over her.
Bianca was said to believe starting a family could help her rapper husband to stay out of the endless controversy he is courting, and in turn strengthen their marriage after his recent offensive behavior reportedly forced her to contemplate divorce.
‘Bianca is encouraging Kanye to have a baby, believing it will save their marriage and heal their relationship,’ sources previously told DailyMail.com.
The Chicago rapper, who now goes by Ye, recently fled the country and travelled to Tokyo after posting a series of increasingly erratic posts in which he clashed with his ex-wife about co-parenting their 11-year-old daughter, North.
Kanye previously revealed he has bipolar disorder but recently claimed it was a misdiagnosis and he has since been diagnosed with autism.
