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.
I’m still hoping Washington, Oregon, and California become part of B.C.
But let Disney copyright claim it and it wou vanish overnight.
I don’t believe this bullshit
I think we should all download it, over and over, let’s see if we can get their CDN costs up to a couple mil this month.
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’”
which similarly glorifies Hitler, the architect of the Holocaust.
Oh, that Hitler…
Thought it was Gay Hitler at first for sure.
Ah, so the son of George Washington Hitler became a doctor? Good for him!
If only
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.
Whether he needs help or not I don’t know but what I do know is that we need to stop giving this man any attention.
With all these reactionaries - Ye, JK Rowling, PragerU, Heritage Foundation, etc - We need to stop cross-posting their hate speech. All that does is risk spreading their views. I don’t know why people who (rightfully) criticized CNN for airing Trump’s full speeches, do the same with personalities who aren’t even running for political power.
All it does it give mentally-ill attention seekers like Ye encouragement.
You mean kanye west? After all a empty right wing ball sack like him doesn’t like preferred names or pronouns.
Why don’t we split the difference and just call him NazYe?
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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There is direct correlation between right-wing ideology and brain damage
Nitrous addiction can cause brain damage too
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\*instead of*to get the asterisk to appear. Otherwise it will italicize.Honestly, messing with the formatting of the first verse was enough. My phone can’t regex, and I really despise that word too much to try to fix it. I’m not inclined to put more effort into the formatting as Ye did into the lyrics themselves.
i kinda see his nazism as a metaphor now… he’s saying he’s treated like a nazi so might as well say he’s a nazi.
or, he’s so demonized then “fine, i’m a demon”.
my take on it is: shitty artist + mentally ill.also, interesting that he’s a cuck, and super worried about being called gay… (check out his reaction to the fish sticks south park).
you don’t have to be gay but, it definitely involves being sexually excited by other men…
i’m thinking, lying to himself level of closet gaysaying he’s treated like a nazi so might as well say he’s a nazi.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/8/1786532/-Cartoon-You-made-me-become-a-Nazi is kind of timeless
like i said, shitty artist
mentally [ill] man who needs help.
I agree with this. A while back he did an interview with Lex Fridman. For those not familiar with Lex, he does long-form interviews of an hour or more that get into great detail on various subjects, and he makes a point to educate himself on those subjects beforehand so it is an actual discussion, not the usual interview of a guy explaining his job to somebody who has never heard of it.
For anyone not convinced Ye needs help, please go listen to that interview.
Ye early on blames the ‘Jewish media’ for an awful lot of the world’s problems. Lex encourages him to call out specific members of that media for specific problems, rather than writing off an entire religion and an entire industry. Lex encourages him to use his platform to identify bad actors and directly oppose them. Ye refuses any specifics, talking only in broad general terms.
Ye then says with full conviction that we should stop teaching history in schools, that it is a waste of time and resources to relive the past and we should be teaching science and math and engineering instead as history offers us little or nothing of value. Lex of course brings up several parallels between history and modern society and similar problems happening under similar situations, once again Ye refuses to acknowledge and keeps restating his point in different words.
These are just two of the bigger issues. I got about halfway through the interview before I concluded that this man has no fundamental understanding of how the world works or of how human nature works, that he was either deluded or mentally ill or just very stupid, let his positions are almost entirely without merit and that he is a person and his ideas are probably unworthy of any consideration of mine. For me that’s a pretty big thing, I try to separate the person from the idea and give everybody equal consideration.
But after listening to Ye speak for half an hour, I concluded it was the same as going to a mental hospital and listening to one of the patients rant about how aliens ate their brain for half an hour- The only thing I get from the experience is half an hour older.
I don’t know what is wrong with Ye. Maybe he is just uneducated and ignorant and managed to fail upwards because he’s good at music. Maybe he is mentally ill. I don’t know. But I do know that he is not a smart or intelligent person that we should be listening to in any capacity.
The only thing I get from the experience is half an hour older.
That was a fire line, and I’m stealing it.
Only thing Kanye West needs help with at this point is shutting the fuck up.
Some rich asshole once said, “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”
I’m pretty sure after his mother died, (of complications from a weight loss procedure he paid for), it broke him. He started abusing nitrous, Kim K tried to keep him compliant with doctors and meds, but eventually gave up to keep the kids safe.
I am convinced that he has always been neurodivergent - possibly autistic. He’s always had strange lyrics, but was a genius producer. He had his finger on the pulse for what kinds of sounds to bring out of SoundCloud and other spaces - you see in Yeezus that he’s kinda bringing the experiments of groups like CLPPNG and Death Grips to the mainstream.
He’s also going through some serious creative decline. Life of Pablo was strained. He’s resorting to shit like AI. That cannot feel good. He knows that something is wrong, but has to externalize it because of his “god” persona.
The comparison to someone in an asylum is apt. If he wasn’t rich, those song lyrics would have been written on a bathroom wall in feces.
He needs help, not a microphone.
you see in Yeezus that he’s kinda bringing the experiments of groups like CLPPNG and Death Grips to the mainstream.
You mean this Yeezus merch?
This was the same timeframe.(Sorry, different concert. This was later.) He wanted people to buy this shit as a bundle with a concert ticket.Also, Death Grips was already mainstream. They didn’t need some insane motherfucker to sample their work to get popular.
Jesus is King is after Life of Pablo. Jesus is King is not good Kanye.
Yeezus didn’t sample Death Grips IIRC - it’s more a response to them. And saying that Death Grips was mainstream when Yeezus came out is horseshit - No Love Deep Web came out like a few months before.
Never do a Kardashian. Not once. Meth has better long term expectations than a man involved with a Kardashian.
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.
Sooo, American Gods?
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 so wanted this to read:
You crotched granny squares? For baby rhinos?
You sick pervert.
I read the title and thought it was the onion
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…
If they remove his other songs, his fans might gravitate to other platforms. This is why they don’t remove his other songs.
His other songs like from years ago? Maybe those don’t belong to him and the platform does not remove those because that would punish a completely different entity that has nothing to do with what Kanye does now. All his songs prior to 2012 are owned by Def Jam (universal music subsidiary)
So Kanye doesn’t get a penny from his songs he made before 2012?
Man I am so hungry…
You alright bro?
His username? The “funny bit” I am trying to make? Hello? Nobody gets me…
Oh. I am error.
Why should his other songs be removed?
If someone keeps making Nazi comments online, should they be banned or just the comments removed?
Assuming they don’t own the platform?
maybe they should be REMOVED
He’s got another song on that album about showing a younger (?) cousin porn and having sucked his dick. That cousin is in prison for murdering someone. Now, children are curious and child perpetrated sexual abuse is a complicated and messy topic for professionals, but I don’t think you have to be a professional to say “yeah, probably not a good idea to release that.”
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
Exactly. The star system is inherently exploitative. Why do you think they pretty much all end up overdosing, unaliving themselves and / or crazy.
unaliving themselves
It’s ok. You can say it here. The algorithm isn’t going to get you.
Apparently not given the mod removed the comment.
I can see it just fine on my instance.
Why do you think they pretty much all end up overdosing, unaliving themselves
I think a huge part of the reason suicidal people feel so alone is because society absolutely refuses to talk about it.
If you choose to self censor to make your content more friendly to advertisers while robbing vulnerable suicidal people of the language they need to be taken seriously, of course people are going to end up “unaliving” themselves because of it.
Imagine trying to explain you’re suicidal to a friend who isn’t even capable of hearing the word “suicide”.
People pretend to care until you actually ask for help.
Talking about how we really feel pushes people away.
I’m really sorry you had that experience, but from my own I don’t find that’s always true. I don’t struggle with suicide per se but I do get intrusive thoughts telling me too and these really scared me when they first started happening because I didn’t understand the weren’t from me.
I’ve talked about this with at least 4 or 5 of my close friends and they all understood and many even related and have their own struggles.
I’ve had friends who self harmed, friends who have threatened to harm themselves, everytime we had a heart to heart about something like that it’s only brought us closer.
I think for me at the point the pessimism and bitterness has taken over and I see the worst in everything seemingly all the time. I usually don’t talk about what I’m thinking because it’ll come off as complaining and negativity when in reality I’m just so tired of everything being so fucked up.
Instead of burdening others, I don’t say anything. I feel like I’m silently drifting towards suicide. Even if I say the most offending problems out loud nothing will change because all the problems stem from human nature itself.
There was a streamer I used to watch that ended up killing himself. Before he did it he was talking about whether life is a simulation and that killing himself might get him to the next “level”… And that’s honestly stuck with me. He was successful, popular, loved etc… and yet that wasn’t enough. There’s no way this can be all there is to life.
I understand what you mean. That’s sort of what I was expressing my frustration about earlier is that I think society makes it that way. You aren’t being negative or complaining, these things are completely normal but we don’t treat them as normal. We don’t really have examples of how to initiate these conversations in healthy ways. Even the word suicide itself feels so heavy.
The heavier society makes that feel, the more you think you’re putting a burden on someone that you aren’t.
Did you know suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the US?
Usually the only time suicide is brought up its for drama on some show.
Instead of burdening others, I don’t say anything. I feel like I’m silently drifting towards suicide. Even if I say the most offending problems out loud nothing will change because all the problems stem from human nature itself.
Do you mind if I ask what it is you’re expecting to change?
Talking to someone isn’t necessarily about solving all your root problems but to just help yourself get out of your own head about it.
It’s like an alcoholic going to their first AA meeting or someone with PTSD going to their first therapist session. That one conversation isn’t going to change everything, but it might give you support and help you realize that other people are struggling with the same things and even some people have found successful ways of digging out.
There was a streamer I used to watch that ended up killing himself. Before he did it he was talking about whether life is a simulation and that killing himself might get him to the next “level”
What about that connects with you?
You’ve mentioned before you push these feelings down and wear a sort of mask in front of others instead of burdening them. Is it possible that by choosing to cut yourself off from others, you’re preventing yourself from having real connections and so they end up feeling artificial and simulated?
“Bears are so strong and smart, they are great” said the salmon.
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.
He should just jump into the sea and start living with other gay fish
