Public Enemy Fires Flavor Flav After Bernie Sanders Rally Spat

[RandySF]

Public Enemy announced Sunday they are permanently “moving forward” without Flavor Flav, firing one of hip-hop’s most memorable hypemen after more than 35 years. The abrupt dismissal comes just two days after the rapper sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bernie Sanders over Chuck D’s concert at the campaign’s Los Angeles rally Sunday.

“Public Enemy and Public Enemy Radio will be moving forward without Flavor Flav,” the hip-hop legends said in a brief statement Sunday. “We thank him for his years of service and wish him well.”

The group reiterated that Public Enemy Radio — a Chuck D-led offshoot featuring DJ Lord, Jahi and the S1Ws — would still perform at the free, livestreamed Sanders rally gig at 6 p.m. PST at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

The cease-and-desist letter, sent to Sanders Friday by Flavor Flav’s lawyer Matthew Friedman, accused the campaign of using the hypeman’s “unauthorized likeness, image and trademarked clock” to promote the rally, even though Flavor Flav “has not endorsed any political candidate.”




https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/public-enemy-flavor-flav-bernie-sanders-960272/

[msongs]

1. another casualty/fallout from the revolution lol nt

[LizBeth]

2. Sanders caused the break up of a band? No surprise there.

[Scurrilous]

3. Bernie broke up Public Enemy?

[Cha]

6. :(

So sad.

[Scurrilous]

7. ...

He's a regular Yoko Ono.

[Cha]

8. ..

unreal.

[Recursion]

4. If you had asked me "Will Bernie Sanders be Public Enemy's Yoko?"

I would have said "of course not". Yet here we are.

[emmaverybo]

5. Lol.

[Tactical Peek]

9. maybe he should do reachou-

Link to tweet

Malarkey Delenda Est
@agraybee
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Bernie really tanked it with black voters, maybe he should do reachou-

*Bernie skips Selma event.*

Well at least the day's over and there's not much else that can go wr-

*Bernie breaks up Public Enemy*

[sheshe2]

11. Skips Selma.

Fires a black man. One day after Black History Month.

Way to go.

[TexasTowelie]

10. I heard that Flavor Flav was always late to work since he didn't know what time it was.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. .....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. Public Enemy without Flavor Fav is like The Doors without Jim Morrison

Okay I'm showing my age but you get the point.