It turns out Flavor Flav wasn’t actually kicked out of Public Enemy after a political dispute over Bernie Sanders. Today, the pioneering hip-hop group’s leader Chuck D released a statement on its website revealing the hoax, while also promoting Public Enemy Radio’s new album, Loud Is Not Enough.
Public Enemy Radio is an offshoot of the group without Flav in the lineup. He said that it was inspired by Orson Welles' radio broadcast of H.
G. Wells' novel, The War of the Worlds, and explained why they used a dispute over Public Enemy Radio’s performance at a Sanders presidential campaign rally as the crux of the hoax: I had watched Orson Welles’ War Of The Worlds from 1938 when he pulled the wool over the public’s eyes as they put 100% belief
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