Unfortunately, a threat of legal action from his ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, the reported breakdown of his second marriage to Bianca Censori and rapid damage to his reputation are not enough to deter Kanye West from posting on X.

In his latest tirade, hooked to his new single, West alleges that he ‘acted out’ what he saw in ‘dirty magazines’ with his cousin who was six years old. ‘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,’ he shared with his 33 million followers. ‘Perhaps in my self-centred mess, I felt it was my fault that I showed him those dirty magazines when he was six and then we acted out what we saw.’

‘My dad had playboy magazines,’ he continued, ‘but the magazines I found in the top of my mom’s closet were different. My name is Ye and I s**ked my cousin’s d**k til I was 14.’

He then elaborated on these claims in his song, rapping: ‘Hanging with my cousin reading dirty magazines/ We see some n****s kiss, and we ain’t know what that s**t means/ Then we start reenacting everything that we had seen/ That’s when I gave my cousin head.’

‘People tell me take it to my grave,’ he adds. ‘“Truth will set you free someday.” I don’t think they understand that I’m not attracted to a man.’ The song is accompanied by grainy home video footage, featuring naked people jumping into a swimming pool, someone holding a gun, an animation of a man falling out of a building and a sign that reads ‘4 f*****s’.

This is not the first time West has mentioned his incarcerated cousin in public, but it is the first time he has made claims of this nature. In August 2018 during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, West said, ‘My cousin is locked up for murder, and I love him. He did a bad thing, but I still love him.’ Kardashian also mentioned him in April 2020 during a meeting with Marc M. Howard, president of the Frederick Douglass Project for Justice organisation. She said, ‘Kanye’s aunt, my [then] husband’s aunt, his cousin has a double life sentence for a murder that he committed when he was 17.’

Kardashian added, ‘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.’

West’s latest allegations have certainly sent shockwaves – as have several of the other claims and statements he has shared on X in recent months. He has declared that he loves Hitler on the platform, along with a slew of other repugnant and antisemitic remarks. He has made baseless allegations about the Kardashian family, including that they are ‘sex traffickers’ and he has declared that he has ‘dominion’ over his wife Censori and then reported that she left him.

The latter statement also appears to be untrue as one day after West released his song COUSINS, he shared a picture with Censori captioned ‘Fit pic’. The pair were then seen going for dinner at a restaurant in Mallorca, Spain.

West is still active on X and has diverted his attention back to his custody dispute with Kardashian – dragging a medley of his former A-list friends into the saga. ‘Why is this celebrity world. Jay Z, Beyonce, Kendrick, Rihanna, Rocky included, Trump Elon,’ he wrote. ‘Why are you all watching and letting Kim take my kids from me in real time. Ya’ll wanna say I’m acting out cause of things in my childhood. But I don’t get to be a dad.’

West then claimed, ‘I haven’t seen Saint this year.’ West has four children, North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm, who live primarily with Kardashian and West has visitation rights. However, given his recent erratic behaviour on social media, Kardashian is reportedly reconsidering their legal arrangement. Last month, she met with West, their lawyers and a mediator to discuss how they can move forward and reportedly made a plea for West not to release a single featuring Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, who is currently awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, and their eldest daughter. However, West released the single anyway, and days later Kardashian cut his visit with North short following reports that Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are also awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, were on their way to meet them.

For onlookers, it is not difficult to understand why Kardashian is reconsidering the custody arrangement she has with her ex-husband. One insider told Page Six, ‘It’s not getting any better, he’s not a well person, he’s sinking further down and he’s not acting rationally. There’s so much negativity – I don’t think he can come out of this.’ While another source told Us Weekly, ‘[Kim] is in a very touch position when she really has to coparent with him. Right now he [West] is very distracted and she does not want to say anything bad about him, but the safety of her kids is what is (motivating this consideration).’

Yesterday, the rapper made another plea for ‘the right lawyer’ to help with his custody case on X. However, it did not take long for him to revert back to his usual antisemitic and misogynistic tirades. He posted again to say, ‘I love Hitler’, and called his wife a ‘b*tch’ and said she ‘owns nudity’, in reference to her recent naked stunt on the Grammys red carpet, and that he ‘owns racism’. West then wrote, ‘Thank you Elon for this platform.’

As long as West continues to have a platform of this scale, it is unlikely these bold allegations and repugnant remarks will cease anytime soon.