Kanye West blackmailed by his own cousin over a sex tape found on his laptop

US rapper Kayne West was once blackmailed over sex tape by his own brother. Speaking to the Daily Mail, one of Kanye's cousin, Lawrence Franklin recently revealed that Kanye was blackmailed into paying a massive $250,000 after a family member discovered a video of Kanye having sex with an unknown woman on a laptop, which Kanye had gifted the family member.

According to Franklin who is an entrepreneur and producer, he said;

‘I was at my aunt’s house when the family member who had the laptop called me, a friend of his, and my uncle to the kitchen where he opened the laptop to show a video of Kanye in clear view having sex with a fair-skinned black woman.

‘The family member knew what he had was gold, and later called an old friend of his that was an attorney.
‘He put together a small team him and his attorney went after Kanye, and to show that they meant business they leaked a little information publicly to let it be know they indeed had the footage.
‘The family member tried to keep a low profile but it was not long before Kanye’s team learned who it was that had the sex tape.’

Franklin said the laptop which Kanye was still using back in 2012, contained a sex-tape of Yeezy and a fair-skinned unidentified African-American woman, adding that it was this turn of events that made Kanye lose trust in family members and other people even those who have been around him before he became a star.
And according to Franklin, the song titled “Real Friends” released earlier this year by Kanye was evident to that. Kanye in the song hinted that he was once blackmailed over a sex-tape. 

‘I had a cousin that stole my laptop that I was f*ckin’ bitches on. Paid that n***a 250 thousand just to get it from him. Real friends…Huh?’He sang.

Franklin, also went to explain how the incident contributed to Kayne’s recent public breakdown weeks ago.

‘The sex tape episode started his decline – he stopped trusting people,’ Franklin explained.

‘At the end of the day if a member of your family had taken you for a quarter of a million dollars – so they can complete their own ambitions – who can you trust within your circle?

‘This was also around the time when his mother has just died and he takes a lot of responsibility for that.

‘When you go from being a regular person to being a huge star – and having all of these mounting issues and being completely void of the normalcy that you once had – it’s tough.

‘Where do you go? Who do you trust at the end of the day?’

The Daily Mail.