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