With a new single racking up millions of streams, Kanye West is continuing to spread alarming antisemitic rhetoric.
On Thursday, the 24x Grammy winner released ‘Heil Hitler’ on multiple streaming platforms, many of which have since removed the track while it continues to rack up millions of streams on Elon Musk‘s X, along with the single’s art, which resembles a swastika.
As of Saturday, the song remains on the social media site while Spotify, Soundcloud and other platforms have worked to remove it.
“‘Heil Hitler’ by Ye has been banned by all digital streaming platforms while ‘Rednecks’ by Randy Newman remains streamable,” wrote West in a post. “They’re literally keeping the n—s down.”
The song has since be shared by multiple profiles on social media and music streaming sites, with self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate promoting it in a video.
In a petition started by the Anti-Defamation League to “reinstate guidelines meant to protect users from disinformation and hate” on Facebook and Instagram, the organization wrote, “Thanks to advocates like you raising your voice, Spotify has removed Kanye’s Hitler song from their platform. Now, we need your help to hold another company accountable.”
The Yeezy mogul’s X account was briefly deactivated in February after writing on the platform that he’s “never apologizing for my Jewish comments,” adding in a disturbing series of posts, “I’m a Nazi. Hitler was sooooo fresh.”
Following a similar antisemitic rant in 2022, which raised concerns for West’s mental wellbeing, the artist released an apology in Hebrew the next year.
Meanwhile, Musk’s stance on free speech and censorship leave little hope for potentially regulating hate speech on the platform, after he previously ripped into advertisers who pulled out of X in 2023 over his own amplification an antisemitic post.
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