NEW YORK (AP) — Public Enemy has abruptly fired founding member Flavor Flav following a public spat over the rap group’s plan to perform at a Bernie Sanders campaign event. Public Enemy “will be moving forward without Flavor Flav,” the band said in a brief statement Sunday. “We thank him for his years of service […]
It looks like Flavor Flav said the wrong thing about the wrong person at the wrong time and caught a beatdown. The Public Enemy hype man told authorities that the man who slugged him, Ugandi Howard, did so because he somehow thought Flav disrespected his mother. Flav says Howard punched him in the face, and kicked him while […]
Flavor Flav has filed a lawsuit against fellow Public Enemy member Chuck D and members of the rap group’s production and management team, according to The Hollywood Reporter. According to documents filed Tuesday by his attorney, A. Eric Bjorgum, Flav, whose real name is William J. Drayton, alleges that “despite Drayton’s position in Public Enemy, […]
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Entertainer Flavor Flav has settled criminal charges stemming from a traffic stop in suburban New York while racing to his mother’s funeral, but his legal headaches are not quite over. Flav, whose real name is William Drayton Jr., pleaded guilty in Nassau Criminal Court on Tuesday to one count of unlicensed […]
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Entertainer Flavor Flav has fired his second lawyer in his New York traffic case and his plea deal is kaput. The rapper and reality TV star said Tuesday in a Mineola courtroom that he doesn’t deserve a felony charge. There had been talk of a plea deal. But the judge and […]
Flavor Flav has been charged with driving under the influence involving cocaine, speeding and having an open container of alcohol in the car when cops pulled him over in May near the Las Vegas airport. The AP reports that prosecutors charged the former rapper/reality television star on July 16. The Nevada Highway Patrol said Flav […]
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Flavor Flav was arrested in Las Vegas early Thursday on allegations of driving under the influence, speeding, possessing less than an ounce of marijuana and having an open container of alcohol in the 2005 black BMW he was driving, authorities said. Nevada Highway Patrol spokesman Loy Hixson said the 56-year-old entertainer […]
Flavor Flav just doesn’t respect his freedom. The troubled hypeman was arrested Thursday morning in Las Vegas, according to TMZ, and faces a slew of…
Despite Flavor Flav’s energetic antics and sometimes over-the-top behavior, he proves time and time again how he’s just a regular guy. From opening up businesses…
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Flavor Flav has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from a New York traffic stop last year while he was driving to his mother’s funeral. The rapper and reality TV star was indicted last month on a felony charge of driving with a suspended license. He also faces a speeding violation […]
