It’s officially the end of an era. After three decades, the iconic hip-hop group known as Public Enemy confirmed it would be “moving forward without Flavor Flav”—the group’s longtime hype man and breakout reality star of Flavor of Love fame.
Ahead of the split, Flav came out publicly slamming Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and former bandmate Chuck D, claiming that the campaign is using his old group’s name for an endorsement on which he didn’t sign off.
On Friday, Flavor Flav, whose birth name is William Drayton, had his lawyer send a letter to the Sanders campaign, alleging that the political rally performance would use Flav’s “unauthorized likeness” and “image” for promotion purposes. “While Chuck is certainly free to
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