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The Kanye West "Heil Hitler" Song refers to an unreleased track by rapper Kanye West (Ye) in which the chorus repeats, "Nigga, Heil Hitler." It was initially previewed on an April 2025 livestream hosted by Kick streamer Sneako. The clip of Ye, Sneako and others listening to the track went viral on Twitter / X in late April and early May 2025, as many had negative reactions to it, adding to Kanye West's antisemitism controversies during the 2020s. Memes and viral tweets compared the track to Ye's other song "COUSINS" from his upcoming album (purportedly called CUCK) with Dave Blunts.

Origin

On April 30th, 2025, X^[1] user @FearedBuck tweeted a clip from a then-recent Parti stream with Sneako and Ye in which Ye plays a song from his upcoming album, leading with the lyrics, "I still can't get my kids back," and, "Nigga, Heil Hitler." The tweet received over 10.7 million views and 24,000 likes in two days (shown below).

Kanye West previews unreleased music with Top 5 on Sneako’s stream 👀 pic.twitter.com/qvAPVpIp1x

— FearBuck (@FearedBuck) April 30, 2025

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On May 1st, 2025, X^[2] user @CarterForNow quote-tweeted the abovementioned tweet, writing, "I promise you are not ready for this. No matter what you think, your brain is not ready," gaining over 107,000 likes in a day (shown below).

Also on May 1st, X^[3] user @TAYXKDOT replied to the abovementioned quote-tweet, writing, "Kanye West has to be one of the worst things to happen to hip-hop," attaching the I'm Out! 1.3 Seconds image. It received over 3,700 likes in a day (shown below).

Reactions to the song also spread on Reddit during the same timeframe. For instance, a few hours after X user @FearedBuck posted about the track on April 30th, 2025, Redditor mistrmelee shared the Sneako stream clip to the /r/Kanye^[4] subreddit, writing, "This will definitely get banned from Spotify," gaining over 5,400 upvotes in two days.

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