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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    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.

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      Hitler was (or rather - wanted to be) an arts major, not a STEM major. He couldn’t architect anything.

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    The song doesn’t really glorify Hitler. And the title “architect of the Holocaust” is usually attributed to Adolf Eichmann.

    That being said, the song is antisemitic and tasteless. West appears to blame all his personal issues on the Jews, which is deeply pathetic.

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    It’s not even a good song.

    80% of it is him and a crowd of black guys (who may or may not have been AI generated or paid a tonne to get in on the white supremacist grift) chanting “N***a heil Hitler!” The other 20% comes across as some kind of incel or MRA manifesto, where he’s whinging about being cancelled and denied access to his kids.

    Kanye has well and truly lost the plot. He needs to be detained in a psych ward…

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    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

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    Just in case people actually believed Elon’s whining that he’s total not a Nazi you guys, cut it out wah.

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    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.

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

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      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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        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.