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Kanye West reveals a childhood sex drama
A social media ‘Ye’ confession turns out to be…complicated
A social media post by Ye, or Kanye West, lit up the Internet, as he revealed that in his youth he had a sexual relationship with a male cousin. The planet asked: ‘Why are you telling me that?’
I’m going over the details about a bizarre disclosure of a childhood sexual drama—with implication for West’s sexuality and mental health.
There might be more than meets the eye.
West has often been suspected of being gay.
A range of relationships that ‘Ye’ has had with everyone from Virgil Abloh to Nick Fuentes have been examined over time for lurid suggestion.
For a forthcoming album, it seems he wanted to take on the subject. In one track, he asserts he is heterosexual, but there was that thing with his cousin. He posted a song, “COUSINS” that told a tale:
“Hanging with my cousin reading dirty magazines we seen two niggas kiss and we dont know what that shit means then we start re enacting everything that we had seen thats when i gave my cousin head
And i know these niggas bout…
