{"id":804778,"date":"2020-03-01T19:17:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T02:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=960272"},"modified":"2020-03-01T19:17:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T02:17:25","slug":"public-enemy-fires-flavor-flav-after-bernie-sanders-rally-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/public-enemy-fires-flavor-flav-after-bernie-sanders-rally-spat\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Enemy Fires Flavor Flav After Bernie Sanders Rally Spat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Public Enemy<\/a> announced Sunday they are permanently \u201cmoving forward\u201d without Flavor Flav<\/a>, firing one of hip-hop\u2019s most memorable hypemen after 37 years. The abrupt dismissal comes just two days after the rapper sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bernie Sanders<\/a> over Chuck D<\/a>\u2019s concert at the campaign\u2019s Los Angeles rally Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPublic Enemy and Public Enemy Radio will be moving forward without Flavor Flav,\u201d the hip-hop legends said in a brief statement Sunday. \u201cWe thank him for his years of service and wish him well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The group reiterated that Public Enemy Radio \u2014 a Chuck D-led offshoot featuring DJ Lord, Jahi and the S1Ws \u2014 would still perform at the free, livestreamed<\/a> Sanders rally gig at 6 p.m. PST at the Los Angeles Convention Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prior to Flavor Flav\u2019s firing \u2014 and after the hypeman accused the Sanders of using his \u201cunauthorized likeness, image and trademarked clock\u201d to promote the rally \u2014 Chuck D said of his bandmate of 37 years in a statement, \u201cFlavor chooses to dance for his money and not do benevolent work like this. He has a year to get his act together and get himself straight or he\u2019s out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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A lawyer for Chuck D added, \u201cFrom a legal standpoint, Chuck could perform as Public Enemy if he ever wanted to; he is the sole owner of the Public Enemy trademark. He originally drew the logo himself in the mid-80\u2019s, is also the creative visionary and the group\u2019s primary songwriter, having written Flavor\u2019s most memorable lines.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Legal issues were also simmering between Flavor Flav and his fellow Public Enemy bandmates, who he sued in 2017 over unpaid profits<\/a>. \u201cFlav will be OK. TMZ Drama is beneath me considering our age,\u201d Chuck D tweeted<\/span><\/a> at the time, blaming Flavor Flav\u2019s \u201cnew management\u201d for the lawsuit. \u201cIt\u2019s low entertainment, but I definitely like to find those 50 he songs he wrote.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In a tweet earlier Sunday, Chuck D clarified that the Sanders issue was not the only reason the group fired the hypeman. \u201cMy last straw was long ago,\u201d he wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s not about BERNIE with Flav\u2026 he don\u2019t know the difference between [former NFL running back] Barry Sanders or Bernie Sanders. He don\u2019t know either. FLAV refused to support Sankofa after Harry Belafonte inducted us. He don\u2019t do that.\u201d Sankofa, a grassroots organization founded by Belafonte, aims to, as they note on their site, <\/span>\u201cfocus on issues of injustice that disproportionately affect the disenfranchised, the oppressed, and the underserved, which left unaddressed will continue to impact the lives of too many individuals and remain a scar on our nation\u2019s moral character.\u201d  <\/span><\/p>\n

Public Enemy\u2019s statement added that Public Enemy Radio would release a new album in April; in December, Chuck D\u2019s previous project Prophets of Rage dissolved<\/a> following news of Rage Against the Machine\u2019s reunion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Public Enemy announced Sunday they are permanently \u201cmoving forward\u201d without Flavor Flav, firing one of hip-hop\u2019s most memorable hypemen after 37 years. The abrupt dismissal comes just two days after the rapper sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bernie Sanders over Chuck D\u2019s concert at the campaign\u2019s Los Angeles rally Sunday. \u201cPublic Enemy and Public Enemy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 05:20:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}