Public Enemy Fire Flavor Flav After Bernie Sanders Rally Spat

[underpants]

“ Public Enemy and Public Enemy Radio will be moving forward without Flavor Flav,” group says. “We thank him for his years of service and wish him well”

Public Enemy announced 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.


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/

[DanTex]

1. People know Flava Flav is a Trumper, right?

Chuck’s bandmate Flavor Flav, however, doesn’t necessarily share the same views. “I’m not really the politician of the group,” he told Billboard in his trailer after the show. “There’s a lot of people talking a lot of shit about Trump, but guess what? He’s winning. The man is winning. I ain’t gonna lie, but listen, the United States has been ran a certain way for decades and decades and decades. You never know: Maybe Trump could possibly do something. Maybe he might step in office and do something. I’m not going to doubt him.”

“Put it this way: If this was really, really a foot race, Donald Trump would be the first one to the finish line, but they won’t let him cross it first,” he continued. “That’s the way I feel, you know what I’m saying? Because he’s winning fairly, but they still don’t want him to be president. They’re going to try to block that man from being president. If Donald Trump does become president, there’s only one thing we all can do: just sit back and let the man do his job.”

https://www.stereogum.com/1865971/chuck-d-yells-fuck-donald-trump-at-sxsw-flavor-flav-is-like-not-so-fast/news/

[underpants]

4. Yikes

I think he was in one of the celebrity shows.

He’s whacked!

[Iliyah]

2. Nowdays people need to get approval . . .

just look at shithole's rallies, etc., they use musicians songs, etc. without approval all the time and they don't care.

Approval first . . .

[evertonfc]

3. Public Enemy without Flav?

lololol....

[dualboy24]

5. Seems like Public Enemy (Chuck D) wanted Flav out for awhile now

Seems Flav is all about the Benjamins only.

Following the Sanders rally, Chuck D further addressed the split. “If there was a $bag, Flav would’ve been there front & center. He will NOT do free benefit shows,” he wrote. ” I built [Public Enemy Radio] so it does benefits & fundraisers … He said he never gonna do them. So his refusal to do Harry Belafonte’s [Many Rivers to Cross festival] in Atlanta 2016 was my last time. I built Enemy Radio to get far away from that ridiculousness.”

Chuck D clarified that the Sanders issue was not the only reason the group fired the hypeman. “My last straw was long ago,” he wrote. “It’s not about BERNIE with Flav… he don’t know the difference between [former NFL running back] Barry Sanders or Bernie Sanders.

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

[Blue_Tires]

6. Great... Now Sanders breaks up P.E.