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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.

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 314 points 3 days ago (71 children)

It’s literally called “Heil Hitler”.

I think anyone who defends him needs to back up now.

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 94 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Whoah, whoah, we don't want to be jumping to conclusions about who may, or may not, be a Nazi. /s

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 44 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

removeds See My Twitter But They Don’t See How I Be Feeling So I Became A Nazi

Lyrics from the song

[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

This whole, "people don't understand I have feelings so I decided to hate" thing incels and Nazis do is so fucking cringe

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 135 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (18 children)

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.

[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 48 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 30 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There is direct correlation between right-wing ideology and brain damage

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 128 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.”

And Kanye was like

“I LOOOOOOOOOVE HITLERRRRRRRRR!”

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 89 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You know you're insane when you make Alex Jones look reasonable.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

Tbf, Alex Jones is more of a liar than he is insane. But yeah he's both.

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 110 points 3 days ago (6 children)
[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 113 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Mental illness is no longer an acceptable excuse.

[–] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is full blown malignant narcissism. And it makes people associated with him lots of money.

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[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 23 points 3 days ago

Eh more like he needs to be taken out to pasture.

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[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 83 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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.

EXTRADITE KANYE!

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[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 70 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 74 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] raltoid@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I can't believe it was that incident that revealed Snopes as a nazi outlet(they basically said it was impossible to tell and talked about "not being able to read his mind". And they have made zero attempts at correcting the article or changing their stance, so they stand by what was written)

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[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] horse@feddit.org 60 points 3 days ago (12 children)

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…

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[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] KelvarIW@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

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.

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[–] Tja@programming.dev 53 points 3 days ago

which similarly glorifies Hitler, the architect of the Holocaust.

Oh, that Hitler...

[–] pleasegoaway@lemm.ee 47 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So when is he going to get a conservatorship?

He’s clearly in need of others making decisions for him.

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[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 43 points 3 days ago (11 children)

I’ll fight Kanye for charity. Live on the internet.

Tell him punkrocksportsfan is not afraid to fight him. Why’s he afraid of punkrocksportsfan?

I’ll fight that dude. Don’t gotta get ready if you stay ready, right.

Name the time and place Mr Kanye West.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago

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

But let Disney copyright claim it and it wou vanish overnight.

I don't believe this bullshit

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago

"Bears are so strong and smart, they are great" said the salmon.

[–] dzso@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Honest question: is Ye just mentally ill, or is Russia manipulating him?

[–] Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 3 days ago

Both? Just like the conspiracy theory crowd.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 30 points 3 days ago

But also it's super easy to manipulate a mentally ill person. Just keep whispering in his ear that he's totally right and oh by the way he should be upset about this other thing too, and he will take the bait. Every. Time.

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But he's totally not a Nazi because he is black.

[–] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 21 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Doesn’t he self identify as a Nazi?

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[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Who listens to this shitty artist anyways. I get the shock or discovery plays, but dude is straight trash anyways lol.

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[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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'"

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[–] dzso@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You mean kanye west? After all a empty right wing ball sack like him doesn't like preferred names or pronouns.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

I'll break it down for you:

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.

If you want to watch it to see how truly shitty it is, here is a nitter link from probably a sketch person. It's not giving traffic to them because it's nitter, not X: https://nitter.net/jakeshieldsajj/status/1920322039056838970#m

Edit: They're scrubbing the internet of this one, I can't even get it to show up on archive. https://archive.is/urjlq

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