Kanye was acting "erratic" long before 2012. IMO, he was acting "erratic" long before his mother passed. Those tabloids pay 6 figures for this level of direct quotes and old pictures. How much cash would it take for you to sell out a famous relative? $100? $1000?
EXCLUSIVE: Kanye West paid $250,000 to a family member who threatened to release a SEX TAPE of the rapper with a 'fair-skinned black woman' discovered on his laptop
EXCLUSIVE: Kanye West paid $250,000 to a family member who threatened to release a SEX TAPE of the rapper with a 'fair-skinned black woman' discovered on his laptop
- Kanye West's cousin Lawrence Franklin tells DailyMail.com that the rapper cut himself off from the family after the incident and became distrustful of people in his inner circle
- Franklin said that the relative found the video of Kanye having sex with an unknown light-skinned African-American woman
- The video was on a laptop the rapper had given away as a gift in 2012
- Eventually he paid the relative $250,000 to hand over the only copy of the tape
- Kanye was so upset by the incident he began to retreat from his family and became 'disconnected', Franklin said
- The rapper's song Real Friends, released earlier this year, is about the incident, according to Franklin
- Franklin, 31, also revealed how Kanye, still grieving for his beloved mother Donda, struggles to live in the Kardashians' world
- He believes Donda, who died in 2007 from complications that arose from elected plastic surgery, would not approve of Kanye's wife Kim Kardashian
