Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West, now known as Ye, has released new music after a short hiatus.
West last released the controversial song "Eazy" featuring The Game in March 2022, which took aim at his now ex-wife Kim Kardashian's boyfriend Pete Davidson.
In his latest single "Someday We'll All Be Free," West once again does not shy away from addressing his controversial comments and their consequences, including his split with Kardashian and his antisemitic views, including a conversation with a conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
In "Someday We'll All Be Free," Ye samples the Donny Hathaway hit of the same name. Fans of West's music may notice it's the same sample Jay-Z used on his album 4:44 track "Legacy" in 2017.
Newsweek has everything you need to know about "Someday We'll All Be Free" below.
'Someday We'll All Be Free' Lyrics
In the opening verse, Kanye raps: "Wakin' up to 'I can't do this anymore' texts," which could be in reference to his very turbulent and public split from his wife Kim Kardashian following six years of marriage.
The couple, who have four children together, recently reached a divorce settlement, almost two years after she filed for divorce.
Kardashian cited "irreconcilable differences" in her filing on February 19, 2021. In March 2022, Kardashian and West were declared legally single and she dropped "West" from her surname.
In now-deleted posts on Instagram and Twitter, West spoke of wanting to win Kardashian back, as well as threatening her former boyfriend Pete Davidson and criticizing the Kardashian-Jenner family.
Now, their marriage is officially over.
In "Someday We'll All Be Free," West references his antisemitic "Death Con 3" tweet which led to multiple businesses cutting ties with him, including Adidas, Gap, and J.P. Morgan.
West raps: "Jackson if you're nasty/ Tweeted Death Con now we passed three/ Tweeted Death Con now we passed three."
In October 2022, West posted a series of antisemitic messages on Instagram, accusing rapper Diddy of being controlled by Jewish people, leading to his suspension from the social media platform.
West then took to Twitter saying he would go "death con 3 On Jewish people," leading to another Twitter ban for violating the platform's policies on hate speech.
His use of the term "death con 3" was believed to be in reference to the U.S. military state of alert scale "DEFCON," between 1 and 5, with DEFCON 1 signaling the outbreak of nuclear warfare and DEFCON 5 being the lowest level of severity.
"Someday We'll All Be Free" also includes a snippet of West's recent interview with hugely controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his podcast InfoWars, where the rapper expressed his admiration of Adolf Hitler.
Across the near-three-hour show, West made a number of statements relating to Hitler, Nazis and the Holocaust. At one point, he denied the Holocaust even happened, which is false. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, as well as numerous other historical fact-checkers, around 6 million Jewish people were killed during the Holocaust between 1941 and 1945 in Europe.
At another point during their conversation, Jones asked: "Can we just kind of say, like, you liked the uniforms, but that's about it?" to which West responded: "No. There's a lot of things that I love about Hitler. A lot of things. Hey, Netin, what did you think about that Netin? 'This is insane. You're insane person,'" before adding "Germans had a really cool leader one time."
In the song "Somebody We'll All Be Free," the snippet of Jones asking West about "uniforms," in reference to Nazi attire, is played and Ye closes the track with the lyrics: "There's a lot of things that I love/ That I love, that I love, that I love."
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