![]() It’s not about the time, it’s about the Flavor. I take the batteries out of all of them on purpose. I just want to make sure I'm talking to the real Flav. Nothing, man! Name anything, I can hype it.Īnything but that. I can hype up any crowd.Īre there any unhypeable situations? Things that even you, the king of hype, can’t hype? I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I’ve always been good at it. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that’s the role that I wanted to take on. would be playing a record, I’d be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. I like that train of thought, but no, it wasn’t like that. How do you become a hype man? When Public Enemy was getting started, was it just a distribution of duties? “Well, Chuck is the leader, Professor Griff is the crazy anti-Semite. ![]() We should be the most influential that we can while we still got life. I can’t think of one off the top of my head, but I like Bob Dylan all right. Happy birthday to my man Bob Dylan.Īre you a fan? What’s your favorite Dylan song? ![]() That’s how goddamn likable he is.Įric Spitznagel: I don’t know if you realize this, but today is Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday. The book is brimming with daffy lines such as “I always wanted to know what it would be like if I had a baby with a Spanish girl” and “When I was in my mother’s womb, God knew that you’d be reading this book.” I called Flav to talk about his memoir, and by the end of our conversation, I would’ve invited him to crash on my couch for as long as he needed. Other than that, what is there? Is he famous because he starred in a string of VH1 reality shows, on which he had affairs with women named Hoopz, Deelishis, and Brigitte Nielsen? Is he famous for wearing an oversize clock around his neck? Or for opening an eponymous fried-chicken restaurant in Iowa that closed after just three months in business? In his memoir, Flavor Flav: The Icon The Memoir, published by Farrah Gray Books on June 1, he manages to be infectiously charming nonetheless. Sure, he was a member of Public Enemy, one of the most groundbreaking acts in hip-hop. *By Patrick McMullan Company.*As much fun as Flavor Flav can be, it’s hard not to wonder sometimes why exactly he’s famous.
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