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.
“Nazi Song Big Hit On Nazi Platform”
why do y’all give him so much attention?? Tf ignore him the fame already got to his head…
Stop calling him Ye, it’s so cringe and stupid. His name is Kanye West and he’s a black white supremacist
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.
Clayton Bigsby did it better.
I used to use it in place of yes. Oof.
It’s not even a good song.
80% of it is him and a crowd of black guys (who may or may not have been AI generated or paid a tonne to get in on the white supremacist grift) chanting “N***a heil Hitler!” The other 20% comes across as some kind of incel or MRA manifesto, where he’s whinging about being cancelled and denied access to his kids.
Kanye has well and truly lost the plot. He needs to be detained in a psych ward…
The song doesn’t really glorify Hitler. And the title “architect of the Holocaust” is usually attributed to Adolf Eichmann.
That being said, the song is antisemitic and tasteless. West appears to blame all his personal issues on the Jews, which is deeply pathetic.
The outro is literally a Hitler speech.
Have you read the translation or do you know German?
How does that glorify Hitler?
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That’s not what free speech means. Platforms can remove anything they like, it’s not a public space and they aren’t run by governments.
There is free speech the law, and free speech the idea. You are conflating the two.
When did he rename himself Ye?
Kanye legally changed his whole name to Ye in 2021.
Oh.
I thought it was Ye song as in Ye Olde Song.Ye olde nazis
oh okay
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
The song clearly says he was misunderstood and the Heil Hitler is sarcastic. It’s still cringe, sad and shows signs of mental illness but I don’t see how it’s “glorifying Hitler”.
You misunderstand sarcasm
No, you misunderstand the song.
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.
which similarly glorifies Hitler, the architect of the Holocaust.
Oh, that Hitler…
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’”
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.
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Damn, that’s just sad.
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.
You mean kanye west? After all a empty right wing ball sack like him doesn’t like preferred names or pronouns.
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
