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COUSINS

Release date: 21st April 2025

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About This Track

Released in April 2025 as the intended second single from Ye's unreleased album 'Cuck', 'COUSINS' is a two-part track built on samples of Double Virgo's 'were there originals' and Dave Blunts' '10 PERCS'. The song moves from confessional narrative to dependency-laced refrain, the first section recounting a childhood sexual encounter with a cousin and the anticipated judgement that follows disclosure, whilst the second shifts into a plea for companionship undercut by references to nitrous oxide and prescription painkillers taken in quantity.

The lyric adopts a posture of defiant candour about the past incident, Ye insisting he is not attracted to men even as he anticipates misunderstanding. The second movement abandons that thread entirely, circling instead around fear of abandonment and the numbing routines of substance use, the repeated mention of ten tablets and codeine cough syrup framing euphoria as something chemical rather than relational. The tonal break between the two parts is abrupt, the bridge offering little connective tissue beyond the shared undercurrent of anxiety.

"COUSINS" is a track by Ye, from the album CUCK, released 21st April 2025. Full lyrics are available below.

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Ye

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Lyrics

COUSINS

[Part I]

[Refrain]

I saw you outside again

Just hangin' out with your friends

[Verse 1]

Hangin' with my cousin, readin' dirty magazines

We seen two niggas kissin', we ain't know what that shit mean

Then we start re-enactin' everything that we had seen

That's when I gave my cousin head, gave my cousin head

Gave my cousin head, I gave my cousin head

I gave my cousin head

[Refrain]

I saw you outside again

Just hangin' out with your friends

[Verse 2]

And I know these niggas 'bout to judge me now (And I know these niggas 'bout to judge me now)

Started off when we was hangin' out (Started off when we hangin')

Told my cousin not to tell nobody (Please, no, don't tell nobody)

People tell me take it to my grave ("Truth will set you free someday")

I don't think they understand that I'm not attracted to a man (They thought I was gay)

[Part II]

[Chorus]

Nitrous don't help me, it just put me in a trance

I'm talkin' about euphoria, I am not talkin' about a man

Told her, "Don't leave me, 'cause I need you by my side"

As long as you don't leave me, then I'll probably be alright

And that one time that you left me, I didn't get no sleep that night

And that one time that you left me, I took ten Percs to get high

Ten Percs to get high, pray that I don't die

But if I die, I'll see you in the sky

Two pints of the Qua'-Qua', don't leave, just stay, bae

Let's go on a vacay, leave the world behind

[Bridge]

Leave the world behind

Leave the world behind

[Chorus]

Nitrous don't help me, it just put me in a trance

I'm talkin' about euphoria, I am not talkin' about a man

Told her, "Don't leave me, 'cause I need you by my side"

As long as you don't leave me, then I'll probably be alright

Then I'll probably be alright

Then I'll probably be alright

Ten Percs to get high, pray that I don't die

But if I die, I'll see you in the sky

Two pints of the Qua'-Qua', don't leave, just stay, bae

Let's go on a vacay, leave the world behind

Ten Percs to get high, pray that I don't die

But if I die, I'll see you in the sky

Two pints of the Qua'-Qua', don't leave, just stay, bae

Let's go on a vacay, leave the world behind

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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Chuki Beats, Dave Blunts, Digital Nas, Kanye West
    Lyricist
    Dave Blunts, Kanye West
    Producer
    Chuki Beats, Digital Nas, Kanye West
    Vocals
    Dave Blunts, Kanye West
    Mixing Engineer
    IRKO, Nkenge 1x
    Vocal Samples
    Double Virgo, Playboi Carti
    Voice Samples
    Jezmi Tarik Fehmi
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