He posted on Twitter that the issues became priorities for him after his father passed away in 2016 and his granddaughter was born.Chuck D and Flav were two of the group’s founding members back in 1985. Flavor Flav has issued a cease-and-desist letter against the Bernie Sanders campaign following news that Chuck D — under the moniker Public Enemy Radio — … All market data delayed 20 minutes."Hey Bernie, don't do this!! Those who truly know what Public Enemy stands for know what time it is, there is no Public Enemy without Flavor Flav,” the letter states.“Public Enemy and Public Enemy Radio will be moving forward without Flavor Flav,” the group said in a statement released Sunday. “We thank him for his years of service and wish him well.”Fans were quick to take to social media urging others not to blame Sanders for coming between the two, pointing out that the two have had issues with one another in and out of court for years.On his Twitter account Sunday night, Chuck D tore into Flav, without explicitly confirming that he had ousted the more light-hearted member of the veteran hip-hop collective. A judge dismissed Flavor Flav’s case against Eastlink in April 2019 after the rapper’s legal team missed a filing deadline, though the hypeman appealed the judgment. All rights reserved. I gotta leave him at the crib so y’all trying to fill his persona with some political aplomb is absolutely‘stupid’ Obviously I understand his craziness after all this damn time. “While Chuck is certainly free to express his political view as he sees fit — his voice alone does not speak for Public Enemy. Senator Bernie Sanders has been issued a cease and desist from Flavor Flav after the rapper’s Public Enemy co-founder, Chuck D, was announced to perform at a Sanders …
Subscribe now for more from the authority on music, entertainment, politics and pop culture.So I don’t attack FLAV on what he don’t know. Public Enemy Fire Flavor Flav After Bernie Sanders Rally Spat “Public Enemy and Public Enemy Radio will be moving forward without Flavor Flav,” group says.
Flavor Flav is calling out Sanders after the 2020 presidential hopeful falsely listed Flav's hip-hop group, Public Enemy, as the headliner for a campaign event Sunday.
Duh you don’t know him from a box of cigars or me eitherFlavor Flav has issued a cease-and-desist against the Bernie Sanders campaign over Chuck D's planned Public Enemy Radio rally performance. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com.Sanders has gained 8 percentage points since January, while Biden has dropped into second place with 18 percent, down 8 points.The race looks almost the same when narrowed to Democratic primary voters in the 14 Super Tuesday states: Sanders remains on top with 30 percent, followed by Bloomberg at 18 percent, Biden 17 percent, Warren 11 percent, and Buttigieg and Klobuchar 8 percent.The letter confirms that only one of the group's founders, Chuck D, is set to perform at Sanders' Los Angeles rally. “Flavor chooses to dance for his money and not do benevolent work like this. The rapper's lawyer sent a letter to Sanders saying he was continuing a "grossly misleading narrative." Flav is reaching out, not in the spirit of division, but for the sake of unity in the hope of preserving the integrity of the Public Enemy Movement and the faith and trust his millions of fans around the world have placed in him," the letter states.
That includes the commander-in-chief.
"Sanders claims to represent everyman not the man yet his grossly irresponsible handling of Chuck's endorsement threatens to divide Public Enemy and, in so doing, forever silence one of our nation's loudest and most enduring voices for social change," the letter continues."To be clear Flav and, by extension, the Hall of Fame hip hop act Public Enemy with which his likeness and name have become synonymous has not endorsed any political candidate in this election cycle and any suggestion to the contrary is plainly untrue," reads the letter from attorney Matthew H. Friedman, obtained by Fox News.The Sanders campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.A Nevada-based attorney for the rapper, whose real name is William Drayton Jr., fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Sanders' campaign, stressing that Flav and Public Enemy have not endorsed the Vermont senator.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Flavor Flav responded to the announcement that he had been fired from Public Enemy after he requested that the band not perform at a Bernie Sanders rally. Flavor Flav’s letter reflected rifts between him and Chuck D, which in recent years have included a dispute over royalties and merchandising.