Kanye West Selling Confederate Flag T-Shirts...

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If you thought a Jesus impersonator and bedazzled face masks were the only jaw-dropping stunts Kanye West had up his sleeve for the "Yeezus" tour, then think again. In fact, the fashion-obsessed rapper is taking his controversial antics to a whole new level by selling confederate flag emblazoned t-shirts.

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That's right, the historically racist symbol is all over Kanye's concert merchandise.Hip-Hop Wired captured a few images of the goods, which were designed by the artist Wes Lang, on Saturday during the first stop of the tour in Seattle.

One of the tees shows a confederate flag with a skull and reads "I Ain't Comin' Down," while another one has a skeleton figure draped in a confederate flag holding a scythe. Other designs depict skeletons wearing Indian headdresses with the caption "God Wants You" and then there are tote bags with just the confederate flag by itself.

Kanye has yet to explain the reasoning behind using the flag -- and we're not holding our breath. But based on the musician's racially charged lyrics in the tracks "New Slaves" and "Blood on the Leaves," we shouldn't be too surprised by the symbolism.

Of course Twitter has been weighing in on the matter. So far most people are either confused or outraged by the merchandise. But there are definitely Team Kanye folks as well.


Let's hope Kanye is attempting to reappropriate the negative meaning behind the flag rather than outfitting thousands of clueless concert-goers in "racist" threads. We can just imagine all the white kids walking around in their "Yeezus" confederate flag shirts ready to refute any backlash with: "Yeezy taught me!"

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How ya'll Stanyes gonna defend this?

 

[aRoMaN21]

Its all about the benjamins, baby.

 

[mortuus est]

"its art"

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

also a native american headdress on a skeleton

don't know what we should be "defending" fakkit

 

[Gandolpiffini]

Cooooooooooon

 

[ROFL_GUY]

they got "blackskinheads" being whored out to push samsung phones( you seen that commercial)

and now hes selling confederate flags

"new slaves" this weirdo is so lost

 

[How Sway?]

they got "blackskinheads" being whored out to push samsung phones( you seen that commercial)

and now hes selling confederate flags

"new slaves" this weirdo is so lost

if eminem did the same thing you'd probably say its 'genius'...

 

[KEEPITTRILLA]

"black skinhead" you hating ass fakkits

 

[ROFL_GUY]

and the blind will continue to follow "yeezus"


maybe he knows this and hes playin a big joke on all his fans.. but i dont think this "genius" is smart enough to orchestrate something like that..

 

[kingdizzy01]

its very artistic and genius. kanye def out there making a bold statement.

anything to stay in the spotlight i guess, next we gonna get that fendi 2000 thread count egyptian cloth klan robe bedazzled with diamonds from sierra leone and feathers from endangered parrots. it sounds ab-fab! i cant wait until kanye gives up the deets on his latest fashion designs!

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[dunkman6]

 

[ROFL_GUY]

when your fanbase is 90% cac its a goo business move to sell confederate merchandise and bite metallicas logo

 

[Rekkapryde]

real talk - if nikkaz did start rockin confederate flag shyt, would cacs stop using it?

 

[RhymesWell]

Cmon Yeezy

 

[godkiller]

Kanye stans, please defend yo boy