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Kanye's "I Sucked My Cousin's Dick" Tweet and the Kanye "COUSINS" Song refers to an April 2025 tweet shared by rapper Kanye West (Ye) in which he claimed that he gave oral sex to his male cousin until he was 14 years old. Ye started the tweet by saying, "This song is called COUSINS about my cousin that's locked in jail for life." Then he said that they would "look at dirty magazines together" and finally, "My name is Ye and I sucked my cousin's dick till I was 14. Tweet sent." A music video was attached in the tweet, which was for Ye's new song "COUSINS," which included lyrics about the alleged sexual encounters and Ye's rumored addiction to nitrous gas. Rapper Dave Blunts was also featured on the track. The tweet and song sparked viral discourse and memes on Twitter / X, mostly about Kanye allegedly being homosexual and having explored his gay sexuality with his cousin.

Origin

On April 21st, 2025, Kanye West (Ye) posted a tweet to his X^[1] account @kanyewest, which read:

This song is called COUSINS 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 dick till I was 14

Tweet sent

The tweet attached a music video for Ye's new song "COUSINS," which included lyrics about the alleged sexual encounters and Ye's rumored addiction to nitrous gas.^[7] In a few hours, the tweet received over 2.6 million views and 20,600 likes (shown below).

Lyrics

The lyrics for "COUSINS" were added to Genius^[2] on April 21st, 2025:

Spread

Internet users began reacting to Ye's song and his claim about giving his cousin oral sex. For instance, on April 21st, 2025, X^[3] user @MKUltraMoney replied to Ye's tweet with a photo of Donald Trump captioned, "You what?" gaining over 6,700 likes in a few hours (shown below).

Also on April 21st, X^[4] user @uncledoomer tweeted a photo of a Shower Beer, adding a caption about the Death of Pope Francis, reading, "The Pope is dead and Kanye's gay. What a way to start the week," gaining over 2,000 likes in two hours (shown below).

On April 21st, 2025, recording artist Azealia Banks posted about Ye's tweet in a quote tweet of a post that read, "Not gonna lie that new Kanye song about sucking his cousin's dick is legitimately really good LOL." Banks wrote, "BRUH WHAT?" receiving over 3,200 likes in a few hours (shown below).

Reactions surfaced on Reddit as well. For instance, on April 21st, Redditor PrudentLeek6018 shared a post to the /r/Kanye^[5] subreddit, writing, "Did Ye just come out as gay or is he spilling his trauma? No way he just told the whole world this," receiving over 1,900 upvotes in a few hours (shown below).

Another repost of the tweet was shared by Redditor EA_CommunityTeam to the /r/Kanye^[6] subreddit on April 21st, 2025, gaining over 1,500 upvotes over the same timeframe.

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