The art on the album cover is a painting called Landscape With Graves by Caspar David Friedrich, a famous German painter who was beloved by Nazis.
You’ve probably seen this painting before by the same guy. I’ve seen a lot of twitter Nazis using this painting.
The alternative album cover that he released was a Reichsadler, double-headed eagle crest.
Kanye held a concert on December 11 in Miami. He performed on stage in black-colored Klansman robe. There was at least a few right-wing grifters (Adin Ross, Sneako, etc) in the crowd.
He’s announced that his new album is being released on this Friday. The pre-order is already on iTunes. I’m not sure if it actually will be release on Friday, he has a tendency to delay releases.
From what I have observed, Kanye is still being antisemitic. Baked Alaska posted a photo of them together on December 10. It is very likely that the album will be antisemitic and contain far-right messaging.
I’m worried that the album will be received positively by the hip hop community. If Kanye becomes popular again, it could normalize his cryptic love for Hitler.
god damnit learning that fuckin mountaineering painting guy is beloved by nazis
edit: although he died a century before the nazis were even around so it seems okay to like him
Yeah it’s not his fault that his work, filled with symbolism and romance about nature, was picked up by the Nazis deacdes after his death. His paintings are wonderful.
Friedrich was a fantastic artist. It’s not his fault the Nazi’s broken ass clock approach to art was right once or twice.
If Kanye becomes popular again, it could normalize his cryptic love for Hitler.
this would track with the current efforts in the West to rehabilitate the Nazis in culture.
The West is currently trying to claim that everyone except nazis are antisemitic. Truly the Goebbelsian Big Lie of our era.
As a former Kanye fanatic I’m very confident he isn’t dropping a damn thing on Friday
Mike Dean doesn’t work with Kanye anymore, first time he’s been without Mike Dean since Late Registration. And he had Jon Brion on Late Registration so he had someone to reign him in. This will be Kanye’s second album he’s the main producer for. The first album he’s done this with since College Dropout. There is no universe where this album is actually any semblance of good. Jesus is King was solely held together by Mike Dean.
If you want more modern Kanye music, listen to the newest FKA twigs album. Some of the synth melodies feel like they were taken straight from 808s and Heartbreaks, others have a cool Donda esque sound to them.
FKA twigs is awesome
Jesus is King was solely held together by Mike Dean.
Not to pick a fight with everybody, but JiK is easily his worst record and it’s not close and now I’m blaming Dean.
Mike Dean was the only good part of Jesus is King tho. Like Kanye has 2 albums he didn’t make with Mike Dean, so JiK being bad isn’t his fault.
Wanderer above the sea of fog is such a famous painting it’s typically used as a literal textbook example of the romanticist movement. As in it is in children’s textbooks. It’s as much of a fascist dogwhistle as Michelangelos David is. Kanye is a fascist independent of this
Context, no? One, it’s not wanderer, it’s a different more obscure work, two, in an art textbook vs on a Hitler Fan’s album cover obv have distinct connotations
The accusation here is that the painting is one made by the same artist as one popular with nazis (Wanderer above the sea of fog). But that painting is just fucking popular. It’s like THE painting for when you need to show Romantic art. The actual context is what I’m pointing out and why the point is silly.
You’ve probably seen this painting before by the same guy. I’ve seen a lot of twitter Nazis using this painting.
I’ve seen a lot of everybody use that painting. It’s a hallmark painting of German Romanticism, not a Nazi dog-whistle.
you’ve neglected the better inference, which is that everybody is a nazi.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Nice argument mod, but why don’t you try backing it up with a source?
friedrich is a white supremacist shibboleth actually
QANON lvl wokescoldery rn lol
I described something that was my own personal experience. I did not say that every person who references the artist is white supremacist. Kanye went on Alex Jones and said that he likes Hitler on the show. If you’re still defending Kanye at this point, then you need help.
The dude said “I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.” Kanye went on Tucker Carlson and was so antisemitic that Tucker Carlson edited the interview to make Kanye seem less antisemitic. Kanye went on Alex Jones’s show after the Tucker Carlson interview because he believed that Tucker censored him.
The guy who says “I like Hitler”, creates an album cover by with a painting by German Artist who is known for promoting German Nationalism during his life and whose artwork was used by Nazis to promote Blood and Soil after his death. It must be a coincidence. The guy who likes Hitler is using imagery previously used to promote German Nationalism. What a coincidence.
it’s absolutely wild that kanye can do MAGA hats and WLM w/ candace and misquote War Games and ya’ll will be like, dude, he’s really stepped in it this time, the mock up for his new project uses the same font as a burzum album, it uses art from a German romantic painter.
like, there’s no secret. there’s nothing to decode, no sleuthing that needs to be done. no self-congratulations are needed, his grand provocations have already commenced.
My post is meant to provide evidence that Kanye has not changed his political views. This may be obvious to you but there are a lot of people currently on reddit and twitter who are saying that Kanye is not antisemitic and trying to rehabilitate his image. It may be obvious to you, then my post is not for you. Not everything is for you.
I also said that Kanye was spotted on December 10 spending time with Baked Alaska, a known white supremacist who livestreamed at the January 6 insurrection. Also today, Sneako, a far-right internet video creator, who was banned from youtube for threatening to sexually assault a woman, released a video saying that he is now employed by Kanye. Sneako has been employed by Kanye in the past as well.
For the record. I also criticized Kanye on Hexbear when he was doing White Lives Matters things and meeting with Candace Owens.
again, kanye’s bad behavior and noxious provocations say everything needed. we don’t dan brown, charlie day conspiracy theories about font choices or famous painters to conclude that kanye is “bad.”
You are arguing in bad faith. You have other posts in the thread saying that you want to continue listening to Kanye and you don’t care that he’s a Nazi. You’re just saying this to because you don’t want people to think he’s a Nazi so you can keep listening to him.
The final cover art was revealed on December 12, 2023, by Ty Dolla Sign in an Instagram post.[33] Writing for HipHopDX, Sam Moore described the cover as being “linked to Nazism”, noting Friedrich’s status as a favorite artist of Adolf Hitler; Moore further observed that the cover’s typography was reminiscent of that used by Burzum, a black metal band founded by the neo-Nazi Varg Vikernes.[29] The Burzum comparison and Hitler’s adoration of Friedrich was also reported on by The Guardian and The Independent.[30][34]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vultures_(Kanye_West_and_Ty_Dolla_Sign_album)#Cover_art
It’s not something that I made up or inferred myself. It was reported by multiple news outlets. Sometimes the curtains are not just blue.
Lmao at this point he’s like “No guys seriously, I am the world’s biggest nazi, what do I have to do to show you that I am a huge racist actually?”
nazi
black metalthe contradictions really always be like that
And the anti-flambouyant views when they’re wearing fucking make-up and leather.
those motherfuckers will grow long hair, dress extremely gender neutral, and put on a full face of makeup and then go online to cry about “traditional western gender roles!!!”. like come on.
He’s awful but every time Varg comes up here it tickles me because it takes me back to high school where I was first regaled with tales of his misadventures by metalhead friends
Also, this might just be a Northern Europe thing but I feel like I regularly see people in Burzum t-shirts
my favorite varg story is when he earnestly posted on twitter that fascists should start posting pictures of the dicks (“but not in a gay way!!!”) so they could see if people were circumsized or not
Varg is hilarious because of the juxtaposition of him being a nazi and convicted murderer, while on the other hand he’s a huge terminally-online dork who LARPS as a medieval peasant and creates shitty TTRPGs.
Laughing at Varg’s antics is an evergreen source of comedy material. It’s kinda like watching an animal growl at its reflection in the mirror.
Guy at work is from two Caribbean parents who settled in the 80s. Have seen him wearing the shirt. Very weird. Always wondered if he does for the shits and giggles of winding up the racists? I dont really know him so feel really selfconscious about asking.
He may also genuinely be a Burzum fan? I would feel icky listening to it, having read way too much about Varg’s garbage opinions, but I do know that musically it is extremely highly regarded.
Also, this might just be a Northern Europe thing but I feel like I regularly see people in Burzum t-shirts
Swedes?
Finns
Fascism? In MY Ilmavoimat? It’s about as likely as you’d think!
OOF
Couldn’t have said it better myself
What in the fuck was that Kanye? I told you to do some shit for the kids
we were supposed to make them jump up and down and start sharing candy and stuff 
Imagine he starts doing a collab with Varg…
At least that would pull that fucking nazi out of the ttrpg space
Gucci Mane sampled Varg on one of his songs lol. But based on the producer and Gucci, I doubt it was a dog whistle. But Kanye, lol.
Which song? I don’t think Gucci was ever involved in production as much as Kanye, so I wouldn’t think it was a dog whistle.
I’m very biased for Gucci tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ocXKh_uz9A
Holy shit haha I just remembered that Kanye is featured on the song with the Burzum sample
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Ooooooh that’s not good
Isn’t he making like the most boring setting of all time?
Maybe, I don’t read nazi literature, but I wouldn’t be surprised
exactly why I was trying to bait one of you fellows into giving me a Twitter roast thread or something
this former sub/site is really good about fun facts about the Pantheon of evil far right figures lol
I remember it’s like really boring like there are elves who are surviving on a very cold dark world. it’s like the setting of a heavy metal song but without the screaming to obfuscate the boring shit
lmfaooo
Varg shitting himself in impotent rage
I don’t know how true this is, but the lore I heard is that Varg quit black metal because his nazi brainworms
caused him to finally admit to himself it wasn’t an Aryan enough genre and he was just appropriating POC music, because black metal ultimately has its roots in the blues, which he internalized as making him not segregated enough. So your comment checks out lol
VHLTHRES??
Fucking Black Metal bands piss me off with their shitty logos. Having said that there are still some good anti-racist, pro-LGTBQ+ bands out there who’re fighting to bring the music back from the idiots.
Back from the idiots? It was founded by the idiots
this is why i appreciate party cannon. an oasis of normal human logo design in a sea of eldritch horror
What??? Even AFTER watching 21 Jump Street???
vvltvres amirite
Kanye west records himself shitting in a oil drum and every 12 year old white kid is like that’s real music
They’re trying to form a Fascist supergroup. Also if I want some screamy, dark rap, there’s plenty of good stuff out there already.
the thread is awful ngl
You mean the Reddit thread or this one? Please let me know I don’t wanna be excommunicated from the bearsite for creating a bad post, I might have to resort to things like talking to my family and going outside for entertainment
the reddit thread is cursed with people going “but what if hes just doing 4d chess to own the libs and isnt actually a nazi?”
Hey this is a Good Post.
It seems totally fine.
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