Rap Group Public Enemy has fired co-founder Flavor Flav. The sixty-year-old rapper had sent a letter to US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, two days before Chuck D, the leader of the rap group, would appear at a candidate’s campaign meeting, reports Rolling stone Sunday.
Flavor Flav sent the 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 argues that “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. 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. For example in 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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