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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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[–] briever@lemm.ee 1 points 18 minutes ago (1 children)

When did he rename himself Ye?

[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

Kanye legally changed his whole name to Ye in 2021.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 2 points 12 minutes ago

I'm curious how can this guy release a song titled "heil hitler" and still in the news?

[–] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 20 points 8 hours 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

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 hours ago

I’m still hoping Washington, Oregon, and California become part of B.C.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 37 points 14 hours 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.

[–] jmf@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago

Look up the black hebrew Israelite movement. It's really a weird phenomenon.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 45 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

which similarly glorifies Hitler, the architect of the Holocaust.

Oh, that Hitler...

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 14 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Thought it was Gay Hitler at first for sure.

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 7 points 13 hours ago

Ah, so the son of George Washington Hitler became a doctor? Good for him!

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[–] Pnut@lemm.ee 21 points 14 hours 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'"

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 18 hours 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 23 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 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.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Right. Before the internet people like this would be shunned by society until they either changed or stopped trying. The internet giving these people attention and power was one of the worst things to come from it.

[–] nomorgrms@lemmy.cafe 1 points 47 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

Can't you see that's what he want? Those "stars" are exploited by the music industry. Why do you think they all end up dead, overdosed or murdered?

The best thing that can happen to him is to be left alone away from media attention

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 110 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (27 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.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] nomorgrms@lemmy.cafe 1 points 45 minutes ago

Have you tried not being an ableist star system believing dick?

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 23 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] gibson@sopuli.xyz 4 points 9 hours ago

Nitrous addiction can cause brain damage too

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