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#120 - How'd We Get to "Heil Hitler" Again? | Kanye West New Song · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  Kanye West dropped his latest album today, or his latest song,
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  which was Hail Hitler. What does that mean?
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  My name is Brandon Fogle. This is Evolution. We're going to dive into this fairly
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  quickly, just because Kanye West is very interesting to me and his whole kind
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  of the way he's been kind of tumbling out of control has been,
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  it's been interesting to watch.
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  It's been tough because he came out as a Christian about eight years ago or
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  whenever that was and embraced Christ,
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  and it feels like the spiral out of control is very tough to watch.
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  Now, I'm going to show a short clip of, Michael Knowles talked about this on
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  his show, and what he deduced from what has happened is Kanye is,
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  he's saying the most extreme things possible,
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  and once we've reached this limit,
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  where can we even go from here, from where we are at?
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  The escalation of where he started and it seemed like everything was going good
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  for him. And there was a lot of personal things in his life.
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  And it seems like after his marriage broke up, it seems that a lot of things went out of control.
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  And you could tell how he starts off this song because he's,
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  he's, he's not in a right state of mind.
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  He's not in a right state of mind, but he's also a person that is brilliant.
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  If you really look at Kanye West, he is almost by definition a genius in a lot of ways.
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  A billionaire, a person that has artistic skills that are just out of this world,
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  and the things he's able to create, and the way that he's able to grab attention,
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  is nothing short of spectacular, but he's almost using all of that great ability
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  that he has, God-given ability,
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  and he's going towards hail Hitler, which is very tough to watch, very tough to see.
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  This is Michael Knowles. He's going to talk about as the escalation of where
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  you start, if you are watching politics just for a dopamine rush,
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  this is the pinnacle of where we could go by saying hail Hitler.
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  You know, even you think about political commentary. 15 years ago,
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  if someone said, I support the Constitution, I want to cut taxes, that was extreme.
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  Then five years ago, if someone said, I don't know, I don't think a man can
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  be a woman, that was extreme.
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  Now this is all blasé stuff. People need more. If you are engaging with politics,
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  not to be civically engaged and to advance the common good, if you're just engaging
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  in it for a dopamine hit, as many people do,
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  then this is it. Now you've reached the end of the road.
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  Ninjas are my ninjas are nazis heil hitler that's the end of the road there's
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  no there's no more extreme thing you can possibly say there's no no more incoherent
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  thing you can possibly say,
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  there can be no coherence to this at all as kanye admits
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  off the top of the show he says i'm not being coherent i'm
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  just pure wrath right now i'm a
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  villain i'm the bad guy i'm gonna say something craziest least coherent thing
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  you can possibly say and that's the end of it so where do you go from there
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  where is kanye gonna go from here and i i think about whenever he first came
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  out as a christian and then he had presidential aspirations he wanted that to be a part of his.
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  Journey then things just kind of just fell off and he just started embracing
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  nazism and going on alex jones show that was just crazy seeing him on there
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  he was wearing all just all that black,
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  uniform is covering his face and just expressing these things about sympathy,
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  sympathies for Nazism, sympathies for anti-Semitism, sympathies for,
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  because I mean, what it's, it's so tough because he's such a good artist and
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  such a good singer, a rapper, and this song that he released and it's being called.
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  Stifled in a lot of ways on a lot of platforms. It's a, a extremely catchy song
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  and it's going to, or I feel like it's going to permeate our, our society.
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  It's going to be in everything, you know, and it's tough not to listen to it
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  because it sounds really good.
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  And the whole thing where it's put together, but the message, he starts it off.
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  If you, if you listen to everything he says at the beginning,
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  he just says, I am, I've lost everything.
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  I'm out of my mind. I'm saying something wild and crazy.
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  This is where I'm at. This is what everyone's done to me. This is how I,
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  I'm, you're seeing it all for everyone's seeing it for all to see.
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  And he's saying the craziest thing possible.
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  I hope, I hope Kanye changes course, but I don't, it's tough to where he's going.
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  Something dramatic would have to change for the direction he's heading and where
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  he's leading a lot of people.
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  So this is just food for thought. I want to talk more about this because this
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  is very interesting to me.
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  And is Hitler going to become a glorified figure in our nation?
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  Is that possible? He's been the devil for so long.
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  Is this something that's going to bring Hitler as someone that people look up to?
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  A scary thought. All right, we'll leave it at that.