Spotify, SoundCloud and other platforms have pulled the song, but its spread underscores the challenges tech platforms face in removing content that violate their policies.
Spotify, SoundCloud and other tech platforms have worked to remove a new song from Ye that praises Adolf Hitler, but the song and its video have continued to proliferate online including across X, where it has racked up millions of views.
On various mainstream and alternative tech platforms this week, Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been able to share his latest song, titled “Heil Hitler,” along with its companion title, “WW3,” which similarly glorifies Hitler, the architect of the Holocaust.
While some platforms have taken steps to attempt to pull down the song, others have seemingly let it spread freely.
It’s literally called “Heil Hitler”.
I think anyone who defends him needs to back up now.
Whoah, whoah, we don’t want to be jumping to conclusions about who may, or may not, be a Nazi. /s
There’sa lot of hateful racism among many young hip hop fans
In case you’d like the lyrics for this “masterpiece”:
[Verse 1: Ye] Man, these people took my kids from me
Then they froze my bank account
I got so much anger in me
Got no way to take it out
Think I’m stuck in the Matrix
Where the fuck is my nitrous
Yes, I am a cuck, I like when people fuck on my bitch
With shit that I’m postin’ on Twitter they tellin’ me, “Ye, don’t say that”
How n*ggas can see me in public im drivin an all-chrome Maybach
With all of the money and fame I still can’t get my kids back
With all of the money and fame I still don’t get to see my children
N*ggas see my Twitter, but they don’t see >how I be feeling
So I became a Nazi, yeah, bitch, I’m the villain
[Chorus: Ye] Ngga, Heil Hitler Ngga, Heil Hitler They don’t understand the things I say on Twitter Ngga, Heil Hitler They don’t understand the things I say on Twitter All my nggas Nazis, ngga, Heil Hitler Ngga, Heil Hitler Ngga, Heil Hitler All my nggas Nazis, ngga, Heil Hitler She wanna fuck in Japan, I put the chrome on the Benz (Ngga, Heil Hitler) She reaching down to my pants, she got the world in her hands
[Chorus: The Hooligans] Ngga, Heil Hitler Ngga, Heil Hitler Ngga, Heil Hitler All my nggas Nazis, ngga, Heil Hitler Ngga, Heil Hitler Ngga, Heil Hitler All my nggas Nazis, ngga, Heil Hitler Ngga, Heil Hitler Ngga, Heil Hitler Ngga, Heil Hitler N*gga, Heil Hitler
[Outro: Adolf Hitler] Du meine Arbeit für richtig hältst Ob du glaubst, dass ich fleißig gewesen bin, dass ich gearbeitet habe Dass ich mich in diesen Jahren für dich eingesetzt habe, dass ich anständig meine Zeit verwendet habe im Dienste meines Volkes. Gib du jetzt deine Stimme ab, wenn “JA”, dann tritt für mich ein, so wie ich für dich eingetreten bin!
This is a severely mentally man who needs help. This is not a song that should have had people working on it. This should not have been released. I have had a in-depth conversation with something who believed that Shrek was the incarnation of God and they were more cogent than this.
Kanye was always a strange and not great lyricist, but this is mental illness.
I have had a in-depth conversation with something who believed that Shrek was the incarnation of God
I would love to hear their reasoning. That is fascinating.
Some modern religious philosophies (most notably Chaos Magick) essentially believe that thoughts, symbols, ideas, and cultural concepts gain power through their spread and repetition. Within this framework, Shrek may as well be a god because he’s the center of a popular media franchise and the basis of many popular memes. By saying “Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life” it becomes real in a sense. That’s kind of where I think that would be coming from. I’ve seen people make similar arguments about batman and mickey mouse being their personal gods.
I’ve heard this philosophy before, yeah. And honestly, it’s why I legit think of Jedi and Dudeists as credible. If some of the wisest writers in our distant history were revealed to actually be a shared pen name for five or six guys, then why is it weird to say that Master Yoda and Uncle Iroh are my favorite philosophers?
They also included flubber. Flubber represented the Trinity - because it is neither a solid nor a liquid. God is a translucent Shrek made out of flubber.
That was the gist of it, across thirty minutes. The friends next to us were having a conversation about how both of them were vampires and their dad had power over storms.
It was a college volunteer project where I was trying to come up with volunteer projects to connect folks to the community. Was fun - we crocheted granny squares for baby rhinos.
I worked in mental health for years. Some of my most interesting patients were also some of the kindest and most compassionate. One lady was convinced that a famous director was her husband, and had (legit, in her record) walked across five states to accept his psychic wedding proposal. When another patient was in crisis, she was the first one to find us and tell us, and if we weren’t there right away, she would sit with them and reassure them until we could make it.
And then there was the dude who had scammed nearly a thousand retirees because he could–and having psychotic delusions was just something on the side.
Being mentally ill is not a precursor for evil. However, Kanye seems to have made it his mission.
I so wanted this to read:
You crotched granny squares? For baby rhinos?
You sick pervert.
Damn, that’s just sad.
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When we say “Ye did this”, how many people actually recorded, played, produced, published this? I know next to nothing about modern music production, so maybe now he can do all of that at home with a laptop and an internet connection, but if there are others making money out of a clearly unstable person and getting none of the hate, I’d like at least to try and avoid giving them my money
So when is he going to get a conservatorship?
He’s clearly in need of others making decisions for him.
Part of the song is complaining about how he can’t access his bank account, so maybe there’s action there.
But we all know conservatorships are really for when your child who you relentlessly groomed as a sex object wants to start keeping her own money. (How much do you think Dan Schneider paid off the family to keep anyone from knowing who her sisters baby daddy was?)
his mom died, so no other conservator, kim already left him years ago.
Um, you have to be a special sort of moron to be Black and a fan of Hitler…sure, those Nazis might be your bud for a little while, and maybe use your money and fame to fund their cause. Right up until the Night of the Long Knives 2.0.
Look up the black hebrew Israelite movement. It’s really a weird phenomenon.
What a load of fucking bullshit. They must think we are dumb.
OH no we can’t find his music to delete it guess we’ll just keep cashing in on the listens because it’s viral right now then delete it in a week.
Fucking clowns
“Bears are so strong and smart, they are great” said the salmon.
“Nazi Song Big Hit On Nazi Platform”
I feel like Canada and Mexico are a few days away from being an old man that stands up from his rocking chair, grabs an old shotgun and goes “well. I guess it was comin’”
Honest question: is Ye just mentally ill, or is Russia manipulating him?
Very mentally ill.
Very mentally ill gay fish.
Mentally I’ll with “any publicity is good publicity”.
Russia is manipulating him.
Edit: I don’t actually believe this; I just thought it would be hilarious to have two comments with opposing answers. Fuck Kanye
Who listens to this shitty artist anyways. I get the shock or discovery plays, but dude is straight trash anyways lol.
I could never stand him even at the peak of his popularity.
The “Golddigger” song wasn’t terrible, but then, I’m not a huge rap fan, so that’s the only song of his I know.
What an ignorant thing to say, he’s a fucked up person but he’s one of the most talented musicians of our age. He singlehandedly ended gangster raps reign over the rap genre by dropping an album where he sang about his feelings in autotune. Honestly I don’t know why im arguing with you, you’re probably just gonna turn around and use some shit excuse like “its mumble rap” or something.
Nah, I respect your opinion and taste. That’s the thing about art, you can love or hate it. You love it, and I hate it. Simple as that.
Meanwhile my social accounts get shut down within minutes of me posting PG beach photos that the algorithm claims are promoting sexual activity. I know I’m sexy, but tech platforms aren’t facing challenges, this is intentional.
That AI isn’t going to let you get away with posting beach photos with (I’m guessing) mild nudity or skimpy clothes that are perfectly acceptable attire.
No sir, how dare you!
Scantily-clad people? On my internet?
Such a preposterous proposition!
You mean kanye west? After all a empty right wing ball sack like him doesn’t like preferred names or pronouns.
Stop calling him Ye, it’s so cringe and stupid. His name is Kanye West and he’s a black white supremacist
Clayton Bigsby did it better.
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Kanye West is his slave name that he abandoned.
That’s bullshit. If that were true he would do like Malcolm x and Muhammad Ali and change his name legally. Besides that, why would he wanna be rid of his slave name when he’s a racist Nazi?
He is mentally ill and untreated.
To understand and rationalize madness only nurtures a madness within yourself.
Not defending him here or anything but he did legally change his name 3 or 4 years ago to “ye”
