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.

  • horse@feddit.org
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    4 months ago

    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…

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.

  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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.

      • GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Source?

        One of the left-wings favourite ideologies of the last few years is classified as a mental condition btw.

        • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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          4 months ago

          ‘Ideology’

          I already know you’re talking about trans. Who labeled it an ideology? People who need to apply that definition so they can be bigoted towards trans people. Watched them do the same thing with Muslims, so congrats on slurping up the slop ben shaprio shits out for you.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      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.

      • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        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.

        • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          I’ve heard this philosophy before, yeah. And honestly, it’s why I legit think of Jedi and Dudeists as credible. If some of the wisest writers in our distant history were revealed to actually be a shared pen name for five or six guys, then why is it weird to say that Master Yoda and Uncle Iroh are my favorite philosophers?

      • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        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.

        • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          I worked in mental health for years. Some of my most interesting patients were also some of the kindest and most compassionate. One lady was convinced that a famous director was her husband, and had (legit, in her record) walked across five states to accept his psychic wedding proposal. When another patient was in crisis, she was the first one to find us and tell us, and if we weren’t there right away, she would sit with them and reassure them until we could make it.

          And then there was the dude who had scammed nearly a thousand retirees because he could–and having psychotic delusions was just something on the side.

          Being mentally ill is not a precursor for evil. However, Kanye seems to have made it his mission.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      I know you said you were on a phone, although if you can, spoiler formatting on this would be great. It’s perfect for long sections that can be opened and retracted (and also for content that not everyone really wants to see)

      spoiler example

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      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Also, add backslashes before asterisks if you’re going to use them like that. Lemmy uses MarkDown for its markup, and asterisks or underscores around a word or section will italicize it. But a backslash will cancel any formatting for whatever special character follows it.

        So *this* turns into this, but \*this\* turns into *this*.

        (Also, I had to use three backslashes to make \*this\* appear. The first backslash cancels the second, which makes it appear. Then the third backslash cancels the asterisk, which makes it appear. So when the comment is posted, you’re actually seeing the second backslash of three, and the cancelled asterisk.)

    • jsomae@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      You can use \* instead of * to get the asterisk to appear. Otherwise it will italicize.

      • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        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.

    • k0e3@lemmy.ca
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      4 months ago

      With all of the money and fame I still can’t get my kids back LMAO. Has he tried not being a NAZI, gay fish-loving cuck?

    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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      4 months ago

      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.

        • nomy@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Some rich asshole once said, “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.”

      • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        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.

        • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          4 months ago

          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.

          • andros_rex@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            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.

        • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          He’s refused help at every turn. Not even his wife could get through to him. Not his friends, not his family, not his colleagues. None of them could convince him to stay on his meds and stay sane.

      • Sciaphobia@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        The only thing I get from the experience is half an hour older.

        That was a fire line, and I’m stealing it.

  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months 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

    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      X has become such a shithole that they guy under it asks why someone would ever post a song from a black artist. And of course he doesn’t say “black”.

      I’m wondering how long it took to round up enough backup people to chant heil hitler

    • badbrainstorm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Kim had to put her foot down, and started fighting him on custody back in like March, when she found out from North that Ye was bringing the Tate brothers over to hang out with her. I think it was the first time I’ve ever sided with a Kardashian on anything!

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        You’re right and I think I know way to much about that family right now. Putting his 11 year old daughter in a video with Diddy too. Source is questionable, but it’s quoting other sources.

        Kanye and Kim are locked “in a war” after their eldest daughter, North West, featured on a controversial new song with embattled music mogul P Diddy.

        Taking to X, formerly known as Twitter, Kanye wrote over a series of posts, ranting: "Yes I have beef with people that froze my account, took my kids away and have tried to put me in jail and IT’S STUCK …

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

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

      • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        That said until he is taken out of the public spotlight, it is incumbent on everyone to make it clear that these views are rejected in the strongest possible terms.

        Hear hear. RFK? Clinically sick. Musk is likely clinically sick, or at least on too many drugs to brain right. That doesn’t mean they should be “left alone.” You don’t leave alone until they’re deplatformed and powerless. And in Musk’s case, made into some strange fruit.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    4 months ago

    “We’re not Nazis! Elon and Laura Ingram didn’t do the salute! Yo did you hear that ye song on TotallyNotNaziland X? So good!”

  • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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!”

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    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.