Rapper and co-founder of the rap group Public Enemy, Flavor Flav, was evicted from the rap group on Sunday due to a political dispute. Tuesday he said in an interview with TMZ that he cannot be fired at all.
According to him, this is because he is said to be co-owner of the band name and an equal partner within the American rap group company.
The quarrel arose after the 60-year-old rapper had sent a letter to US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, two days before Chuck D, the leader of the rap group, was to appear at a candidate’s campaign meeting, reported Rolling stone Sunday.
Flavor Flav sent that letter through his lawyer to the Sanders campaign team on Friday. That would be because of the action of foreman Chuck D without permission the image of Flavor Flav, in particular his big clock, use for the campaign. The rapper said he did not support any political candidate and did not want to be associated with the campaign.
“Although foreman Chuck D is free to express his political ideas, he does not speak for Public Enemy,” says the letter on behalf of Flavor Flav. A Chuck D lawyer responded with: “Chuck can act as Public Enemy whenever he wants. He is the sole owner of the Public Enemy trademark.”
Through Twitter let the 59-year-old Chuck D, real name Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, know that the disagreement about acting for the presidential candidate was not the only reason to fire Flavor Flav (real name William Jonathan Drayton). Flavor Flav would also have put bad blood on his earlier refusal to support the charity foundation of singer Harry Belafonte.
The band also announced that Flavor Flav had missed performances several times in the past, “from Glastonbury to Canada”, would not have appeared on photo shoots and would not have attended recording sessions. “This was the straw,” said Public Enemy.
In 2017, Flavor sued Flav Chuck D because payments would not be made.
Public Enemy has been around since 1985. The group does not shy away from social criticism in the rap texts. An example of this is the number 911 is a Joke, about emergency services that would be less in a hurry to help black Americans than with their white countrymen. That song is on the most successful album, Fear of a Black Planet from 1990.
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