Ye AKA Kanye West Banned From Australia Over “Heil Hitler” Song

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Ye, aka Kanye West, has managed to get himself banned from Australia, all because the Donda rapper just can’t seem to stop obsessing over his weird pro-Adof Hitler Nazi fetish.

According to Newsweek, Ye’s visa has been canceled and he has been barred from entering Australia following the release of a song widely considered to glorify Hitler and his Nazi regime, which, of course, is understandable considering the name of his newly released track is — *checks notes* — “Heil Hitler.“

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said during an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that Ye, whose wife, Bianca Censori, is Australian, had been “coming to Australia for a long time” and had made “a lot of offensive comments.”

That’s putting things mildly. Early last year, the “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” artist posted a barrage of antisemitic and otherwise offensive tweets on X that made his last series of antisemitic and otherwise offensive tweets, which threatened to upend his career, appear tame.

“AMY JEWISH PERSON THAT DOES BUSINESS WITH ME NEEDS TO KNOW I DONT LIKE OR TRUST ANY JEWISH PERSON AMD THIS IS COMPLETELY SOBER WITH NO HENNESY,” he wrote in one of more than 100 tweets last year. “IM NEVER APOLOGIZING FOR MY JEWISH COMMENTS.” (Last year, Ye blamed his Hennessey consumption for his past remarks and behavior.)

“My officials looked at it again once he released the ‘Heil Hitler’ song,” Burke said. “He no longer has a valid visa in Australia.”

A  spokesperson for Australia’s Department of Home Affairs declined to comment on Ye’s case specifically, but they told Newsweek that “the Australian Government is committed to protecting the Australian community from the risk of harm posed by noncitizens who engage in criminal conduct or behavior of concern.”

“Heil Hitler” is reportedly banned on streaming platforms such as Spotify and SoundCloud, but it’s still available on X, which is owned by Elon Musk, who, of course, might be considered kind of hypocritical for removing it considering his own Nazi saluting ways. 

Anyway, looks like Ye won’t be performing in the Down Under anytime soon. It simply does not pay to be a Nazi sympathiser.