Monday, March 02, 2020

Flavor Flav And Public Enemy Fight For Power!

Flavor Flav and Chuck D have a fallout over politics. Flav was kicked out Public Enemy.
Flavor Flav, the hype man for the hip-hop group Public Enemy (Radio) was fired out the cannon.

William Drayton (known as Flavor Flav) and Carlton Ridenhour (known as Chuck D) were the two lead vocals of the legendary hip-hop group.

The entertainer and his former friends had a huge fall-out. Now Flav is telling the group to not use his likeness or music in political ads.

The entertainer filed a "cease and desist" order against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and his presidential campaign. This came ahead of a rally in Los Angeles featuring a performance from Public Enemy.

The entertainer said that the "unauthorized use of Flavor Flav's likeness, image, trademarked clock in promotional materials circulated by the Sanders Campaign."

The group announced that Flav is no longer with the group.

"Public Enemy and Public Enemy Radio will be moving forward without Flavor Flav. We thank him for his years of service and wish him well."

Flav hit back at the cannon firing.

"While Chuck is certainly free to express his political view as he see fit -- his voice alone does not speak for Public Enemy. The planned performance will only be Chuck D of Public Enemy, it will not be a performance by Public Enemy. Those who truly know what Public Enemy stands for you know what time it is, there is no Public Enemy without Flavor Flav."

Flav also aimed at Sanders, "Hey, Bernie don't do this!"



The two had an intense fallout.

Flav sued Chuck D and the band's managed firm over unpaid royalties and merchandise profits.

"Flavor choose to dance for his money and do not benevolent work like this. He has a year to get his act together and get himself straight or his out," Chuck D said.

Chuck D's lawyer also aimed a few shots at him.
Public Enemy came to Dayton for Terminator X's wedding to his longtime girlfriend.
"From a legal standpoint, Chuck can perform as Public Enemy if he ever wanted to; he is the sole owner of the Public Enemy trademark."

"[Chuck D] originally drew the logo himself in the mid-80s, is also the creative visionary and the group's primary songwriter, having written Flavor's most memorable lines," the lawyer added.

Chuck went to social media to aim at Flav.









Flavor Flav believes that Chuck D's love for Sanders is hurting the group's image. So they got into a falling out and Chuck D fired him out the cannon.

The group began with Chuck D, Professor Griff, Flavor Flav and Terminator X. The group would later add DJ Lord, S1W, Sistah Souljah, The Bomb Squad and DJ Juice to the roster.

The group now currently is Chuck D, Professor Griff, DJ Lord, Khari Wynn and S1W.
Public Bern. The rap group Public Enemy endorses Bernie Sanders for president.
They rose to fame in the late 1980s with politically active and self-conscious hip-hop.

They were controversial.

They were addressing issues that involved the frustrations of government, Black struggles and motivations to move to action.

They released their debut album, "Yo! Bum Rush the Show" in 1987 to critical acclaim and their followup album "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" would be the first critically acclaim album to score a five mic rating in The Source Magazine in its first years.

They were some of the early groups that signed on to Rush Communications (an early offshoot of Def Jam Music Group). They signed to Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin's label.

They released five albums under the Def Jam label.





Terminator X retired from hip-hop and has ties to Dayton, Ohio. He is married to a woman, Robin Dugger, who resides in this area.

Chuck D is a progressive agitator on Progressive Voices and early backer of Sanders in 2016 and later 2020.





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