Kanye West Shares Militant Music Video For ‘Heil Hitler’

Ye is fully committed to the Nazi bit. The 47-year-old artist shared a militant music video for his track “Heil Hitler,” which he’d been teasing for a few weeks.

On Wednesday evening (May 7), the artist formerly known as Kanye West shared a photo of a painted swastika on X to announce that he was uploading the song, though it was unclear where it would be available to play. Finally, around 4 a.m., fans learned that they could hear the official song directly on X, accompanied by an unexpected music video. The visual featured a group of Black men standing in a military formation chanting “Ni**a heil Hitler!” while some wore animal skins over their heads and others over their shoulders.

That’s it; the extent of the two-minute, 35-second video was a camera following along the formation of men who stood stoically and chanted the track’s problematic refrain. The Chicago producer also added a snippet of a speech from Adolf Hitler himself at the end of the song and omitted the line where he dissed Drake, which was heard on the originally teased version of the record. Watch and listen here.

Ye also attempted to provide for those who wanted to take the audio on the go, uploading “Heil Hitler” to Soundcloud hours after the video arrived on X. However, the Soundcloud links have already been taken down, though it is unclear if he did so or the platform did. Nonetheless, he fully intends to include this record on his forthcoming album titled Cuck.

Cuck is mired in controversy as the cover art features two people dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes, and the song “Cousins,” where he describes an incestuous relationship with a cousin while they were children, is set to be on it. “Hanging with my cousin, reading dirty magazines/ We seen some ni**as kissin’, we ain’t know what that sh*t mean/ Then we start re-enacting everything that we had seen/ That’s when I gave my cousin head, gave my cousin head/ Gave my cousin head, I gave my cousin head/ I gave my cousin head,” the father of four raps in the song.

He added more context to the record via X: “This song is called COUSIN about my cousin that’s locked in jail for life for killing a pregnant lady a few years after I told him we wouldn’t ‘look at dirty magazines together’ anymore,” the multi-time Grammy winner wrote. “Perhaps in my self centered mess I felt it was my fault that I showed him those dirty magazines when he was 6 and then we acted out what we saw.” The biggest question here is what other songs will be on the album, what other wild content will be in them, and where this album will be able to be streamed whenever it comes out.