(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Kanye West has reportedly been asking Kim Kardashian to marry him for some time.

The pair have been friends for several years but only started officially dating recently.

OK! magazine claims that the rapper is besotted with the reality star but Kim does not take his marriage talk seriously.

"Kim has tried to discourage it, but Kanye has said he wants to marry her for years now," an insider told the publication.

"On more than one occasion he said, Kim, will you marry me?' He'd be dead serious if she'd say yes."

After the Watch the Throne star got down on bended knee again in Los Angeles recently Kim apparently got embarrassed. She told him to get up and reminded him she wasn't officially divorced from Kris Humphries yet.

"I think he believes if he asks her 100 times, then eventually she'll say yes," the source added. (C) Cover Media