Chuck D has heard the latest round of slander against Madonna‘s recent concert performances, and he’s not here for any of it.
The Public Enemy MC took to X/Twitter on Thursday (January 4) to address the matter. The 63-year-old, who is the pop icon’s contemporary, isn’t impressed with trolls who use Madonna’s age as a talking point.
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“At 63 i know i can bike better than i ever did and Pilates aint easy but i give it to @Madonna for pushing the bars,” he wrote, referring to the Material Girl’s reported workout routine. “@FlavorFlav is taking Pilates too and hes 64. So ageism sometimes gets like racism both ways if you let it.”
He continued: “For anyone over 50 the rule is either you do the songs or the songs do you. @Madonna has some hard songs to perform in her catalogue.”
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Check out the tweet below.
At 63 i know i can bike better than i ever did and Pilates aint easy but i give it to @Madonna for pushing the bars … @FlavorFlav is taking Pilates too and hes 64 . So ageism sometimes gets like racism both ways if you let it. For anyone over 50 the rule is either you do the… pic.twitter.com/HCtMYHZ4v0
— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) January 4, 2024
Some fans were shocked that Chuck D was able to speak on Flavor Flav with such authority, given the tensions they’ve had over the years.
But while Flavor Flav and Chuck D of Public Enemy have had their differences over the past half-dozen years, it has never been that serious, according to Flav himself.
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Flav appeared on TMZ Live last month and said that despite lawsuits between group members and associates and the fact that the group hasn’t released an album since 2020, PE is still going strong.
“A lot of people been asking me, ‘Hey, when is Public Enemy gonna reunite?’ But my answer is this: we never broke up to reunite. We just took a long break,” he said.
In addition, Flavor said that despite him naming Chuck in a 2017 lawsuit and public comments made by both Chuck and Flav in its aftermath, there was never any real “beef” between them.
“[M]e and Chuck, we never really was beefing,” he explained. “There wasn’t no beef. Because I love my partner, and I know he loves me too. Sometimes you don’t see eye to eye on everything. But one thing about me and Chuck, we always manage to pull it back together to see eye to eye and to keep moving forward.”
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Flavor Flav debuted a new song, “Every Where Man,” during a Public Enemy performance this past September. The song features Chuck D and will be officially released on January 10.
