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Today, Ye, formerly of Kanye West, did something he didn’t do often in 2022 while trying to rewrite Nazi history — he released a song. The controversial artist, who has come under fire for the toxic working conditions in his Yeezy empire, uploaded a two-minute song titled “Someday We’ll All Be Free” to his Instagram. Ye also allowed his new friend Alex Jones to post the song on his InfoWars platform. The Instagram caption for the song reads, “Censori overload The antigen’s variable epitope library promotes an immune response in the body.”
A sample of Donny Hathaway’s “Someday We’ll All Be Free,” Ye rhymes about the tumult of his recent days. “Waking up to ‘I can’t do this anymore’ lyrics/and the Bible says I can’t have sex until marriage.” He rhymes, “Everyone’s a Karen,” and proclaims, “I’ve forgotten what fear is is – except the fear of the Almighty.”
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The beat is a smooth loop of the 1973 classic that harks back to the “chop-up-the-soul” Ye who captured the world’s adoration with The College Dropout. But it’s not 2004. The song’s lyrics reflect the conservative, anti-Semetic rhetoric Yes has been voicing for the past few months during a non-stop press tour of TV news networks, drink champs, and now the conservative media.
In his recent interview with Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, Ye expressed that the Jewish people “should forgive Hitler today. Let it go. Let it go. And stop trying to force it on other people.” Yes’s anti-Semitic comments, which he has publicly defended since they were first revealed in a leak of his interview with Tucker Carlson, have alienated him from the last of his OG fans, who defied him still supported by its MAGA connections.
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In the last three months, brands such as Adidas, CAA, Gap and Balenciaga have cut ties with him. He is also hinted that he is in financial trouble after JP Morgan Chase closed his bank account. These circumstances have inspired the back-against-the-wall tone of his latest song, which he ends with a clip from his Info Wars interview telling Alex Jones that he “loves” Nazi uniforms. The song’s limited release on Info Wars and Instagram is a follow-up to his earlier decision to keep his music off digital streaming providers.
Songwriter Edward Howard said he wrote “Someday We’ll All Be Free” about Hathaway’s battle with paranoid schizophrenia, saying, “What was on my mind at the time was Donny, because Donny was a very concerned person. I hoped that someday he would be redeemed from everything he was going through. I had no choice but to write something that would encourage him.”
Ye, who has long grappled with his own battle with bipolar disorder, may have decided to rap about the sample as a balm for himself. One may sympathize with his studies of mental health and how it affects his judgment, but his latest track also feels like a vile subversion of a song that’s been hailed as a beacon of hope for blacks amid white supremacy, but Ye is so devotedly amplifying. In the context of Yes Song, Hathaway’s cries for freedom feel too much like a reference to Yes’ calls for “free thinking” while allying himself with hateful figures like Candace Owens and now Nick Fuentes. Ye’s talent for stirring soul samples and baring his honesty hasn’t gone anywhere, but many people’s tolerance for hearing it is long gone.
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