May 15, 2025
Kanye West's New Hitler Song Is Banned. Should It Be?
Kanye West's new album is raising eyebrows.
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The juice. Have you seen Kanye's new song?
Bro. Bro.
What is what?
Here's the thing. What?
First of all, kind of catchy.
Well, that's the problem with it.
Kanye Wests antisemitic song
Heil Hitler has been banned
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from major music streaming platforms.
It does remain available on Elon Musk's X.
That prompted Joe Rogan and comedian
Tom Segura, who we showed you at the top,
to debate whether banning the song
is the right move.
Here's more.
The song is so many millions
of hits on Twitter,
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it's been banned from every platform.
But is it good to ban things from
platforms, or is it better to let it be
out there and let people talk about it?
Because if you ban it,
then people want to hear it more?
That's true.
And then it becomes more popular.
And then it kind of supports what he says,
which is
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that there's this concerted effort.
If you talk about Jewish people,
that they're going to remove you
from everything, remove you from banking,
which is what he was saying.
They run everything.
So if they didn't like if it was just
you were talking talk about Puerto Ricans.
Look what happened to Toni. Nothing.
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Yeah, he's doing great.
Yeah, you know what I mean?
Like, if there's certain people that
you're allowed to pick on and make jokes
about or or mock or or say something,
and you, you can get away with it.
Yeah. Well, I think he's made his point.
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I think we all get it now.
And the song has racked up
nearly 10 million views just on Kanye's
account alone, with many more,
including many white supremacists
and anti-Semitic accounts gleefully
sharing the song on theirs as well.
Segura also raised the the consequences
of the song, encouraging
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anti-Semitic behavior from Kanye's fans.
Take a look.
I've always been like, yeah,
say whatever you're going to say.
But I do think,
like making a catchy song about that.
I'm like, what are you doing, man?
Like, you're just getting at a minimum,
you're just going to get more people
that think it's cool to say Hitler,
like, that's the minimum.
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Well, I think that's part of the program.
Program?
Yeah, I think it's part
of what he's trying to do.
But I mean, is that cool to do?
I guess if you're like, well, it's fun to
troll the masses and get them to do that.
Okay.
But what I'm saying is that,
like at a minimum, you're going
to get less educated people to go like,
this is a fun thing to say.
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And you're like, I mean, is that good?
You really want people just walking around
being like, you know, it's tight, man.
Heil, Hitler.
Like insane. It's crazy.
How?
Up until the show, I had been thinking
about this all day, and I still don't know
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where I fall on this, but I'm curious.
Do you think this song should
be banned on streaming platforms?
We just had a knockout brawl debate
a minute ago on the show, right?
I mean, catch the show live 6 to 8 p.m.
Eastern.
Okay.
So. And now we come to this topic,
and both of us are like, I don't know.
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Okay.
And we and you,
the two of us never say I don't know.
Right. So we asked it on the website.
Should Kanye West Pro-hitler song
be banned on all platforms?
And apparently you guys don't know,
47 to 53 super close.
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And it comes out to no.
On 53.
Okay, let's the live chat has a poll too.
Two. Should the song be banned?
Let's pull that up in a second.
So, live chats on YouTube. 6040?
No. Okay. So now 5941.
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So this is as tight as it's been
in a long time for any topic.
And so why, guys, let's be super clear.
The song is terrible.
It's an like I don't mean musically.
I mean, you know, to put a song
like that out there is despicable.
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And so and Kanye West is a grade-A moron,
and I'm really proud that,
as usual, I was the first.
And when I said it,
what happened back then?
People were like, now I'm not talking
about when he started the anti-Semitism.
He was always a moron.
He was always the dumbest person
I've ever heard speak.
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Like whenever he spoke,
he'd be like, oh, he's genius.
No, just because he is decent at music
doesn't mean his
political opinions are smart.
He's always been the dumbest guy in the
room, maybe the dumbest guy in the nation.
And so when I was saying that, I remember
people saying, oh, no, he's a genius.
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How dare you?
He's a musical genius, right?
Okay, well, I won that debate.
He's a frickin moron
and an idiot anti-Semite.
ET cetera. ET cetera.
So I despise the song, and I'm really
worried about what Rogan's guest said
there, which is that people think it's cat
urine, and then they start singing it.
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No no no no no no.
On the other hand, if you ban it,
God damn it,
then, oh, it's rebel rebellious and cool
and underground and that kind of crap.
And so, Jordan, I don't know, man,
banning hasn't worked,
so I'm leaning 5347 to not banning it.
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But then if you're not going to ban it,
everybody has to say,
yeah, Kanye is a giant ass and no one
should ever do any deals with Kanye.
Not because you're Jewish
or it's because he's a jerk.
He's a terrible human being.
So and then he can go complain about,
oh, the Jews.
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No, brother, it wasn't the Jews here.
I'm Muslim born Muslim now atheists.
And I hate you.
I think you're an idiot
and I would never do a deal with you.
Okay, so go cry about that. All right.
Jordan, I came out for not banning it,
even though I have a long history
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of despising this moron.
What do you come out?
I, as I think through it,
I jump back and forth.
You know,
the knee jerk reaction seems like.
Well, this is heinous.
This is deliberately inflammatory
and anti-Semitic.
Let's get rid of it.
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And then you think, okay,
well, that's like they say.
And I think that would be human behavior.
Well, people will only seek it out more.
It gives it attention,
especially in our digital age.
When you try to suppress something,
it only makes people
want to seek it out more.
And I think about
the consequences of that.
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And you could think through like
what would the justification be?
And I just don't want I certainly
don't want big tech companies,
and I certainly don't want our government
dictating what can and can't be said,
because while it would start here
and we've already seen it for years,
especially like just to go back
to our last story, big tech companies have
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suppressed pro-Palestinian speech online
for the past year and a half.
You have seen now arrests
on college campuses.
Like, it's not that this would lead
to something worse.
We're already in an area
where things are worse.
And I just I'm also like
even just talking about it.
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We're giving him what he wants.
Like he did this specifically
because he knew it would upset people so
much that it would get way more coverage
on his self-released album than if
the album didn't include this track.
That's it for this single.
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Look, I don't know
how much people are trolling him.
I hope a lot. Right?
But, you know, for all the trolls,
for no reason, they're just
getting their kicks and stuff.
Go troll that guy.
And you know what?
I know it'll drive him crazy.
Do what I do. Keep calling him dumb.
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He's a super dumb guy.
And so he thinks he's a genius.
He's the guy.
I got a white shirt.
I'm selling it for $250.
I'm such a genius.
Oh, I got a trash bag, and I'm selling
it for $500 because I'm a genius.
No, you're an idiot.
That trash bag looks like trash.
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That's just a white shirt.
And you're just a hateful idiot.
So go do that to him
and see if he likes that attention.
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