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 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.
This might be nitpicking, but NBC should be more precise.
which similarly glorifies Hitler, the architect of the Holocaust
Adolf Hitler wanted and ordered the extermination of the Jews and other "undesirables", no doubt about that or his culpability. But the role of "architect", the person who designed the logistics for mass killing, is normally ascribed to other people. Adolf Eichmann, the guy the Mossad captured in Argentinia in 1960, is usually called the "Architect of the Holocaust". Sometimes together with Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Himmler.
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...
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.
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.
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'"
So platforms (rightfully) remove this song, but are happy to let him have an account and make money off his other songs? If they actually cared, he would have been banned a long time ago…
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
It was so funny when Alex Jones was like “yeah Kanye we know what you mean, the Nazis did some good things for the German people under Hitler but you don’t ‘love’ Hitler.”
Ye was briefly able to upload the song to the popular music streaming services Spotify and SoundCloud.
Isn't SoundCloud in Germany? [Checks Wikipedia] Yes, it is.
Isn't promotion of Hitler and Nazism in Germany a serious crime? [Checks Qwant] Yes, it is.
E.g.
Imprisonment, not exceeding five years, or a fine, will be the punishment for whoever, in public or in an assembly, approves, denies or minimizes an act described in § 220a(1) [i.e., genocide] committed under National Socialism, in a manner which is liable to disturb the public peace.
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".
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.
He can't have his kids because he doesn't take his medicine, so he tries to get his kids back by becoming a Nazi. Background singers say N***** Heil Hitler for the chorus and then Hitler is saying shit in German at the end. It's pretty bad, has no logic, but does have rhyming words.
Honest question: would this dude fall into an oppressed group that Nazis would target? Seriously. He is not White, German, blue eyed and blonde. Am I missing something other than a likely mental health problem that is causing this dude to write and record such music?
While there are countless advantages of the internet, there are just as many disadvantages. Dare I say evil? The spread of disinformation, racism, ableism, misogyny, the complete lack of belief in science, etc. And this has become rampant because of lack of proper education—critical thinking. Does it not strike you that the least educated people vote for Trump? This is by design.