Yes, seems like Kanye has been the topic of conversation for about 10 weeks in a row, and just when you thought it couldn’t get any weirder, Kanye gives you a new dose of weird.  If you haven’t seen them by now, Kanye is on tour, and so are his line of Confederate Flag shirts.  Yes! Kanye’s line of confederate flag shirts are now more controversial than Kanye himself.  The flag, skull, and phrase “Never Coming Down” has some people shaking their heads and has others pulling out their wallets. 

Kanye says: “React how you want. Any energy you got is good energy. You know the confederate flag represented slavery in a way — that’s my abstract take on what I know about it. So I made the song ‘New Slaves.’ So I took the Confederate flag and made it my flag. It’s my flag now. Now what are you going to do?”

The Huffington Post has recently reported that Kanye is not only selling at his concerts, but he has opened up a pop-up shop in L.A. full of confederate flag gear. 

The most interesting part of the shirt is the phrase, “Never Coming Down”.  As a resident of South Carolina, I feel like that’s a direct hit to our state, seeing as though people have been trying for quite some time for the Statehouse to remove the flag from the property. As of this day, the flag remains there, so that phrase definitely resonates with our state.

At the end of the day, Kanye now says it’s HIS flag now, so hell….let Kanye be great dammit.