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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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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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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[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

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

[-] felsiq@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago

i WISH i didn’t like his stuff, but years ago (pre-Nazi shit by a long time) he used to be a really talented artist and he had a really major effect on rap as a genre. i don’t listen to his old stuff since the Nazi shit cuz he needs consequences fr, no matter how small, but it honestly sucks a lot cuz he has some really really great music. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is one of the GOAT albums imo, and as sad as it is to say about someone profoundly mentally ill i think it woulda been best for his career if he died around 2016 😭

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 month ago

Lol, Kanye has never been a talented artist. At least, not objectively. Plenty of people have thought he was trash since day one.

[-] glitches_brew@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I could never stand him even at the peak of his popularity.

[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 0 points 1 month ago

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

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 0 points 1 month ago

Doesn’t he self identify as a Nazi?

[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

He says that, but it's for attention. He's rich enough to not suffer any consequences for his behavior.

[-] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago
[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is no sarcasm.

Why you would think there is?

He's a raging a narcissist who will say anything for attention and relevance.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Who are you to say he isn't deranged enough to sincerely believe it?

[-] Geetnerd@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

An intelligent, informed adult.

Who are you to defend an obvious lunatic provoking outrage for attention?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

An intelligent, informed adult.

Clearly at least part of that is a lie. You're the one trying to defend the fuckwad by pretending his gibbering is just for attention and not sincere, despicable hate. I'm the one rebuking you for it. You got it entirely fucking backwards.

[-] skisnow@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

Did you know Auschwitz had a special luxury VIP section where all the richest Jews got treated really well and each one got a Nazi guard assigned to serve them? If you didn't know that it's probably because I just made it up.

Kanye's insane to think the people he's cosying up to won't turn on him in a second.

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[-] KeenFlame@feddit.nu -1 points 1 month ago

He is suffering so so many consequences man

[-] hopesdead@startrek.website 0 points 1 month ago

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?

[-] Snowclone@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

A lot of people during the nazi times supported or identified with Hitler or nazis who were directly a target of nazis. It's crazy how well hate sells.

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a self-preservation attempt. It's the same reason bullies amass followers. Appeasing the powerful jerk usually works to prevent being targeted by them.

However, that would require the powerful jerk to actually value that sort of loyalty.

It's clear that neither Trump nor Musk feel any kind of obligation to those who've lifted them up. Like many bootlickers across the United States, Kanye over-values his own importance and expects others to view him the same - similar to how many immigrants voted for Trump, thinking that surely they were the exception to all his anti-immigrant rhetoric, all the while refusing to listen to those of us who said they'd be lumped in together regardless.

People's inability to share another person's perspective has absolutely shredded our social fabric.

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[-] Stern@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

He could become an Honorary Aryan under a "useful idiot" kind of deal, though really I think he'd probably be treated like the other African folks owing to the bipolar. He claims he was misdiagnosed bipolar, and instead has autism but in this hypothetical that wouldn't really help.

[-] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

He has money to afford the best doctors in the world. If he has autism, he could get diagnosed.

And yes, he'd be rounded up on a train and shipped to a camp. How else are the Nazis gonna respond to a black man who proclaims themselves to be the greatest genius who ever lived?

I think this claim that he's being manipulated, while true, does elide some of the blame on Kanye. There have been plenty of people that have warned him what would happen if he continued down this path.

I do think it's worth pointing out that antisemitism is surprisingly high among African Americans. Which makes sense since they are disproportionately affected by institutional racism. Theories about globalist banking cabals neatly simplify the complex economic mechanisms by which they are oppressed. Of course, most black people don't then go around claiming that Hitler was right, because most black people are not blinded by mentail illness and hubris into thinking that they know better than the undeniable historical consensus of what happened in 1940s Europe.

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[-] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 month ago

Well, 90% of people like Hitler anyway, so I doubt he will face any consequences.

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

This "joke" didn't really land

[-] JamesBoeing737MAX@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 month ago

It isn't a joke. I met a lot of people, who would actually like to reopen concentration camps (or it's just my local community).

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