Flavor Flav

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Flav performing in 2013
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
1, 2, 3, ... Rhymes Galore (From New York to Germany) ( DJ Tomekk vs. Grandmaster Flash feat. Afrob , Flavor Flav & MC Rene )
  DE 6th 09/27/1999 (17 weeks)
  AT 34 11/07/1999 (3 weeks)
  CH 9 10/10/1999 (16 weeks)
Flavor Flav (2000)
Flav (right) live with Public Enemy (2007)

Flavor Flav (* 16th March 1959 in Roosevelt, Long Iceland , New York ; bourgeois William Jonathan Drayton, Jr. ) is an American rapper , who from 1982 to 2020 of the hip-hop -Formation Public Enemy belonged. Flavor Flav's trademark is a watch that he wears around his neck to remind people of the value of time.

After a phase in which Flavor Flav was less in the limelight, he was seen from 2004 in the reality TV productions The Surreal Life , Strange Love and Flavor of Love, which were broadcast on VH-1 and MTV .

The stage name Draytons comes from his childhood sweets. As he ate a lot of colorful sweets of all flavors, Drayton's friends called him since then only Flavor (dt .: flavor ).

Career

At Adelphi University on Long Island , where Flav studied, he met Chuck D. (Carlton Ridenhour). At that time he called himself DJ MC Flavor. Together they founded Public Enemy . In 1987 the first record came out: Yo! Bum rush the show . Flavor Flav was responsible for the entertainment factor at Public Enemy and thus compensated for the highly political topics of Chuck D.

Flav's trademark since 1987 has been a clock, sometimes smaller, sometimes larger, that always hangs around his neck. He wears it because for him time is a very important part of life and it shouldn't be wasted. In addition to the classical piano, he also masters other instruments. Flavor Flav has seven children by two women and two grandchildren.

Strange Love was the name of his first own reality TV series and was also the prelude to Flavor of Love . In Strange Love he visited his girlfriend Brigitte Nielsen , whom he met and fell in love with on the American reality series The Surreal Life . He also flew to Italy to win her over. Later in the show, the two fly to New York. After long doubts, Brigitte Nielsen decides to return to her fiancé in Italy.

His second own reality TV series was called Flavor of Love . To this end, he invited twenty women to his property, 19 of whom were eliminated on a turn-based basis; the competition between women is shown. The series ran on MTV until March 4, 2007 , with candidate Hoopz winning . Since both of them obviously realized after the end of the show that they couldn't live together after all - although the entire selection process for the show was based on this factor - they separated again and a second season was produced. The idea and implementation was the same as in the first season, and like the first time, Tiffany Pollard alias "New York" came into the round of the last two and was again spurned by Flav. Then she received her own program, in which she again goes on groom show. In 2008, the third and final season of Flavor of Love ran on the German TV station MTV , in which he also invited 20 women to his property and from which he let 19 women go home to finally find his wife for life.

After a dispute over an election campaign appearance for Bernie Sanders , Chuck D released Flavor Flav from the band after 38 years in early March 2020.

Scandals

Flav has been arrested several times by police for possession of drugs and weapons, driving without a license, or violence with a firearm. Cocaine or crack was often found on him.

Others

  • In 1999 Flav announced his own solo CD. The songs were recorded but not released on the open market for a long time. Apparently there was no unanimous opinion between Flavor Flav and the record companies. In 2006 the album Hollywood , which he had produced together with DJ Thilo , was finally released on his own label Draytown .
  • Flav was addicted to cracks.
  • In 2002 he took over the traffic jam reports on the New York hip-hop broadcaster Power 105.
  • On May 13 and May 15, 2012, Flav performed live on stage at two Prince concerts in Australia.
  • Flav is a character in the video games NBA2K6 , NBA2K7 , Def Jam: Fight for NY, and PAIN .
  • Flav plays in the music video for You're so Last Summer of Taking Back Sunday with

Movie and TV

Flav has appeared in a number of films and series:

  • 1990: Mo 'Better Blues
  • 1991: New Jack City
  • 1992: Why Colors?
  • 1993: Who's the Man
  • 1993: CB4: The Movie
  • 2002: The Surreal Life
  • 2003: Death of a Dynasty
  • 2004: Best Week Ever
  • 2005: Confessions of a Pit Fighter
  • 2005: Cain and Abel
  • 2005: Strange Love
  • 2006: Flavor of Love
  • 2007: Fantastic Movie (Flavor Flav Look-Alike)
  • 2007: Flavor of Love 2
  • 2007: Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav
  • 2008: Flavor of Love 3
  • 2008: Nite Tales (Nite Tales: The Movie)
  • 2008: Nite Tales: The Series

Discography

Individual evidence

  1. Chart sources: DE AT CH
  2. ^ Marijke Rowland: Flavor Flav's Modesto block party , The Modesto Bee, August 21, 2008
  3. Now comes the expulsion: Flavor Flav is no longer a member of Public Enemy . In: musikexpress.de of March 2, 2020.

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