Although Chuck D recently said Flavor Flav would have one year to “get his act together,” Public Enemy has just announced he’s no longer part of the groundbreaking Hip Hop group.
In a statement sent to HipHopDX, Chuck D and company made it abundantly clear their time with Flav has come to end.
“Public Enemy and Public Enemy Radio will be moving forward without Flavor Flav,” the statement reads. “‘We thank him for his years of service and wish him well.”
Public Enemy Radio — Chuck D, DJ Lord, Jahi of P.E. 2.0 and the S1Ws — are performing at the Bernie Sanders rally in Los Angeles on Sunday (March 1), which proved to be a point of contention for Flav. His legal team quickly issued a statement, blasting Public Enemy’s involvement (despite it being billed as a Public Enemy Radio performance).
On Sunday morning, Chuck tweeted the “last straw was long ago.”
“It’s not about BERNIE with Flav,” he said. “He don’t know the difference between Barry Sanders or Bernie Sanders he don’t know either. FLAV refused to support @Sankofa after @harrybelafonte inducted us. He don’t do that.”
Chuck D Says Flavor Flav Would Rather 'Dance For His Money' Than Get Behind Political Rally
The free Public Enemy Radio event is being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center with the group taking the stage at 6 p.m. local time.
Along with the announcement, Public Enemy Radio also revealed a new album called Loud Is Not Enough will arrive next month.
The Public Enemy Radio performance can be viewed via livestream here.
Damn, this is truly life altering for me in 2020.
Not now ok
This shit between Chuck and Flav needs to be squashed. Quick, fast, and in a hurry. I have a bad feeling that Griff will try to make Sole’ a full time member of the group and it will all go to pot.
Damn, damn, damn. It is what it is. Chuck must be pissed and Flav must be pissed. It is what it is. Flavor Flav will always be a part of P.E. in my eyes, but sometimes people gotta get divorced. Thanks for the past fellas, and here’s to the future.
Not sure where Chuck been, but Flav been doing him since at least the late 90s, and had issues with the group damn near from the start…
Without Flav, there is no Public Enemy “group”… just like with no MCA, there is no Beastie Boys and with no Jam Master Jay, there is no Run-DMC. There is no Van Halen without David Lee Roth. No Beatles reunion without John Lennon.
Chuck needs to change the name of the group if he wants to be taken serious otherwise the name holds it’s own irony.
Who’s checking for P.E. without Flav?
I’ll just play the last 1st 5 albums
Well l be ok!
Yeah, Van Halen put out 10+ albums with Sammy Hagar and sold god knows how many million records. It wasn’t as good, yet still. Slow down there.
LOL at anyone being a Flav stan in 2020. Dude’s mind has been obliterated by drugs for decades. Anyone who has been paying attention is actually shocked Chuck put up with it for so long.
Hell im just looking forward to the album.
Looking forward to the new album aswell, just won’t be same!
LOL supporting Bernie Sanders? Why not just move to Russia or Cuba. Supporting a communist. Bunch of suckers.
Dummy.. Do you even know the difference between a communist and a democratic socialist? They are not the same thing. Pick up a book before commenting ignorance
yeah the difference is you add the word Democrat ,thats literally the only difference stupid
Dummy, there are practically one in the same. Go vote for your commi leader in charge and stop trying to pass socialism as if it’s something completely different than a communist model. WTF is wrong with this country. Bunch of bums.
Socialism is the softer version of communism. Socialism vows to share the wealth through a democratic process while communism is ordering it by force. But I disagree when you say the Democrat party is defending socialism. The truth is the democrats and the republicans are two side of the same coin which is capitalism. But the democrats are less tied to the traditions set by the founding fathers than the republicans who are still rooting for CCW policy, immigration, abortion, etc. The difference is more ideological and philosophical than economical. The problem with Bernie Sanders is his agenda is totally redefining what being a democrat means. This asshole is clearly a communist hidden behind the colors of the democrats while his mindset has nothin to do with the inner ideology of the Democrat party.
Dummy, there are practically one in the same. Go vote for your commi leader in charge and stop trying to pass socialism as if it’s something completely different than a communist model. WTF is wrong with this country. Bunch of bums.
Well Bernie’s political views and social agenda are definitely closer to communism than socialism
You keep calling him a “dummy”. Uh. Bernie calls himself a socialist. Bernie praised Venezuela. Bernie praises Castro. Bernie praised Soviet Russia. Bernie praised China’s Mao. Bernie literally vows to steal the wealth, and redistribute it by force…. He’s a commie, not a socialist. FYI, no nation on earth that is socialist is great. Norway, denamark, Sweden, ect… Those aren’t socialist. They are free market capitalist.
This is sad news. Will always be down with Flavor Flav.. Why should he have to support anyone if that’s how he feel. He’s gotten this far just doing him. Now you insult him on top of it. You look thirsty for publicity. Don’t know how I feel about a new album now
This is sad but I don’t think it’s about his non support of Bernie Sanders. I think it’s more about Flav using legal action against the group when the wanted to perform at the rally. We as fans don’t see the inner dealings and conflict that the group experiences. Flav just sued Chuck D and a manager for an alleged lack of compensation so trust that there’s more to this story than just the sport of a candidate. Sad overall.
How ironic is it that public enemy -flavor flav would support Bernie Sanders? the same group that rapped “fight the power” endorses a communist who if put in control would do everything in his power to take away everyone freedoms
this is what “woke” looks like lol
Fuck outta here. Bloomberg and Trump is the definition of the power P.E been fighting against.
So they are against individuals who manage to become successful, but they are in favor of big government that controls every aspect of people’s lives? Bernie has praised dictators that killed people for not pledging loyalty to them. Bernie is the power P.E. should be fighting, but they seem to only hate governments if that government doesn’t give them enough free stuff that they didn’t earn.
You forgot to list Clintons there because they are the definition of “the power”. How many people connected to them done committed suicide with 2 in the back of the head
I’m not sure you know that pretty much all political hip hop is influenced by communism. And not the lite version Bernie Sanders is pushing. You might wanna pick another fight homie.
Amazing how many americans that have no idea what communism is, nor what freedom really looks like. Ignorant or brainwashed, maybe both?
U mean like trump did? Foh
U dont know the members so what was ur point for dropping by? Lol. What a pearl of wisdom. Flav doesnt support Bernie u troll!
All this shit is… is a ad trying to get you to support The political party shame on chuck D selling out his Brother
Flav was the main character in the group…
Think twice… The truth is all y’all need the Lord Jesus Christ in your lives…
Welp the Democrats win in dividing again.
Hey Dumbass, they are both REPUBLICANS….SO WTF DOES THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAVE TO DO WITH THIS? STFU
Name a republican that supports bernie and his views
The group is more no then.
fuck that I think that isn’t right. I think what frightens me more about being far left or a communist as such people have put it, is these anarchists and pirates who usually identify with the left with such radical ideas about the world and how the world works. they hate capitalism, that’s a given. a lot of left wingers do they may even go so far as to kill you for being a capitalist maybe steal from you what is yours. it is just those extremists which are behind sanders which concern me and how much power will they get if they get power. Bernie must believe in the word of law, what ever that law might be and where but a communist in a capitalist country being the head of a capitalist government does not sit well with me it will take getting used to, providing he is elected.
I see the Russian bots are trolling this page. Please don’t believe the hype.
To be honest, Flav has been problematic for me since he was doing the VH1 shows. His representation of Public Enemy has been declining ever since. It is really unfortunate.
“everyone I disagree with is a Russian bot!”… Your an idiot. But okay, keep repeating your failed, BS narratives
Welp, vote Putin, my g, he is da future
The swing voters aren’t hip hop fans. I don’t think people realize that. The 50 year old white accountant, who has liberal views but is fiscally conservative, isn’t going to care that public enemy supports Bernie Sanders. If anything, it will only hurt his chances. Hilary did the same thing by bringing jay z on stage. Any educated middle aged person (white or black) doesn’t care what Chuck D thinks. All they’re going to know about him is that he was friends with the guy from , “flavor of love.” Trash
It’s an obvious ploy to garner black voters. They purchase celebrity appearances, specifically black appearances. This is why people call it the “democratic plantation”. Because the pandering is so blatantly obvious.
it’s funny ain’t it.. once Cuck D fought the power.. now he fights FOR the power(s that be)
@you know its true!
failed attempt at reverse psychology. too transparent.
Supporting a politician is not welcomed in any way. But think about Obama and his dickrider rappers, so nothing’s new. However calling Bernbie a communist only shows one doesn’t have a clue about communism. Americans have been living in some fake-Christian, conservative-rightist dream since Washington.
*judeo-christian.
Not quite. Bernie Sanders has been known to praise popular communist leaders (by popular, i mean HATED). BERNIE says nice things about Cubas Castro, Venezuela, China’s Mao, the Soviet Union… It doesn’t make us ignorant to pay attention. Bernie isn’t some soft socialist, Denmark style leader. Denamark isn’t even socialist. It’s free market capitalist. Bernie literally wants to forcefully steal from the wealthy, and redistribute it. Fuck that. Every one of u who thinks they hate the rich, secretly love the rich, because it’s the rich who continually revolutionize the world, not people like you or me. The smart phone, the automobile, the internet, the computer, the telephone, the television…. Name items you use every single day, that you couldn’t imagine living without. Odds are it was introduced by a man with dreams of getting rich, and building his own empire.
“The Goal of Socialism is Communism” Valdimir Lenin
Chuck D is one of the greatest in this culture, I have nothing but respect for that man
Chuck D is for socialism. This is pandering that is obviously aimed at a specific group. This party has nothing to offer in terms of solving real issues. None of them want to talk about socioeconomic issues in the inner cities. They want to push anything with the word free in it to garner votes. It’s the vote they want. Socialism is going to set everyone back in a major way. First they take our guns, and soon everything else will fall. I’m surprised at the support from Chuck D who is for fighting the power. This move is the exact opposite of the message he preaches. If you think you can handle socialism, I urged you to head out to Venezuela or Nicaragua. I hear it’s nice this time of year.
One of the greatest groups of all time but I haven’t been a fan since the 99s when they had dope producers like The Bomb Squad and DJ was Terminator X.
There is no Public Enemy without Flava Flav. Sorry Chuck, it just can’t go on without him
#1 thing that makes me against Bernie and others in his field are their ANTI GUN stances. Imagine, much of black America, myself excluded, is anti gun… Which is absolutely insane, considering many of our ancestors were LITERALLY ENSLAVED! Like fuck that, nobody is gonna tell me what guns I need or not! Guns are what makes America america. We have true power, true freedom. You see Virginia? They tried to outlaw a bunch of firearms, so 25,000 disgruntled citizens had a rally, with 16,000 being armed with guns. They mad their point, and those plans to ban those firearms has been halted for now at least.
Chuck D been a hater since 2000. He don’t matter and is jealous that Flav gets more respect in the rap game than he does. When someone says Public Enemy, all minds go to that big ass clock on flavs chest…not Chuck D and his high school flows. Only one style havin old ashy wack rapper. Never really listened to them because of that. He sounds the same on EVERY song ever made by P.E.
Just seems like a scene out of the Temptations movie.. and every one knows the group was never the same…
PE will still go on as one of the Immortals of Hip Hop.. but damn..Everyone knows it won’t be the same…
Can’t you guys find away to stay to stay together
Good. Flav has been a living stereotype forever, tainting PE’s positive message.
Man, Chuck D was trying to sellout his brother! I don’t like that. It’s not right to essentially force a man to support a status quo politician. I swear, stunts like this with liberals will make them perform even worse. It’s clear how hard they try to pander. Same as when Hillary Clinton had JayZ do a free show at her rally. Jay is such a phony, Satanist for that. I mean, Hillary was over here complaining about Trumps language toward women, then has JayZ do an uncensored concert, calling women bitches and hoes, niggas n skanks…. It’s just such a joke.
Bernie Sanders IS the outsider people hoped trump would be. Both democratic and republican elites hate Bernie and would rather have another 4 years of trump because Bernie doesnt bow down to corporatism… but trump-supporters dont understand him. I guess you cant cure those who want the disease. “Make the rich richer and hopefully they’ll keep me as a pet” is trump-supporters motto, they just dont know it yet.
I would rather have 4 more years of Trump than put someone in office who hates America. Bernie is a millionaire who is pushing for socialism. How does that not bother you? There’s nothing to understand when it comes to Bernie Sanders. He is exactly what he says he is. I just don’t think you know what that means. Please educate yourself.
If u don’t like socialism then y r u on here commenting because what your doing right now is socialism
I would love to here how anything I said is socialist. I can tell that I’m going to get a good response that will lead a healthy discussion. And if you’re going to say Trump is a socialist; you have no clue what a socialist is.
Bernie bows down to the likes of people like Castro who oppress and murder their own people. Bernie wants to take more money from you and give free shit to people that aren’t even paying taxes or a citizen here.
Shoulda cut him 20 years ago but better late than never
nice
Lol this country is so lame. Our rallys and protests n shit look so corny
ncie
Lmaoooo Bernie’s not even a real communist. He’s a fucking millionaire!!! Wake up people you’re getting played again!
Petty as fuck. Put his man on blast cuz he won’t rep a fake communist with him. Fuck Chuck D he is the establishment now.
U better figure out the real world…U talk the rhetoric but them facts aren’t true
Right. Bernie is not a fake Communist. He is a real one.
Lol. Bernie is not a communist , he is a democratic socialist. Besides I’m sure you don’t even know what democracy, communism or socialism even is! If so, tell me what is that makes Bernie a communist. You should be smarter than name calling.
Democratic socialist? Who praises Cubas Castro, China’s Mao, and the Soviet Union? Bullshit. He likes communism. He literally praises these dictators. Democratic socialist my ass… He proposes stealing rich Americans money, and forcefully redistributing it. That isn’t socialism. That’s communist.
Here comes the BernieBros lmaooo! Bernie Sanders is fake communist FACT. Old clown gets on stage yammering on & on about how the rich are oppressing everyone. He’s a millionaire! He is “the rich”! Meanwhile you dumbasses eat that shit up cuz you think he’s gonna make those evil rich people pay for your tuition and healthcare. Hahahahaha! You really think he’s gonna go after all his wealthy friends for you? He’d forget all about you the day he took office. Just like Trump,Obama, etc. Go ahead and tell me about “the real world” and “facts” lol.
And what exactly is Trump doing about the rich white people besides giving them a tax break????? Yeah that’s what i thought
Yeah I mentioned Trump in the above comment. Learn how to read you illiterate fuck.
What’s better rich people getting a tax break or you having to pay higher taxes to fund free shit for citizens of other countries that don’t pay taxes here. While its Fuck Trump its also Fuck Democrats unless you are deaf dumb and blind
Voting for a Democrat is the most evil, vile, uneducated thing you can do.
Rich “white” people lmao. The tax cuts are for everyone. I saved $4,000 because of that tax cut, and child tax credit doubling. And then, the large corporate tax cuts have lead to my stock portfolio more than doubling. My 401k exploded. Financially speaking, my life has changed like an insane amount! Over 50% of Americans are invested in stocks. People like you are fucking retards. Talking shit about rich people, using your SMART PHONE, COMPUTER, INTERNET, ect… You are LITERALLY buying luxury products from the 4 richest corporations on earth. Quit hating on the rich with your broke ass! And if u do truly hate the rich, then maybe stop giving them your fucking money? Just maybe? Christ… So many Americans have become complete losers. Thank God for the rich. The rich Americans had incentive to revolutionize the whole world. The first mass produced automobile? The computer? The telephone? The cell phone or smart phone? The internet? Modern medicine and vaccines? Game consoles? Televisions? Radios? All a product of some of the world’s richest people. They changed the whole world for the better. And you hate on them, yet you yourself literally enrich them by choice. Boycott all consumer products if u actually hate them.
100% facts bro. I got a 4 dollar an hour raise because of those ” tax cuts for the rich”. The company I work for took care of everyone. All these crybabies who sit on there asses complaining about how the evil rich people are oppressing them. At the same time they got 100+ dollar Nikes on their feet and 1000 dollar iphones in their hands. They support the very people they claim to be against!
You must have failed at math because everyone knows a millionaire in 2020 is not a big deal (like if you own a boring ass middle class home in Los Angeles for example, you are probably a millionaire), and also you seem to not know what the difference in scale to millionaire and billionaires is.
Anybody remember Flavor Of Love?
So when Flav was doing the Bridgette Nielsen thing, that was cool?..When he allowed Comedy Central to roast him and sit and laugh while the color of his skin was attacked by whites and blacks alike on national tv..that was cool?. Flav been doing dumb shit for years, he didnt have to perform if he didnt want to, but why send a a ceist letter through your lawyer? the GROUP already agreed to perform. PE can still rock out and I’m sure they can find somebody to say “MF him and John Wayne” …while Chuck raps every word on every song for the rest of the show.
Flava Flav IS Public Enemy…Chuck D is the one who’s out. Chuck D has always been a sniveling little crybaby. He’s acting like an scorned female.
Chuck just handed Flav a L. Now he’s left as “Pubic Enemy” lol
Reps and Dems are both garbage and your vote doesn’t count. If your vote counted why are the best choices two 70 yr old white men ? They are the most out of touch people ever. You would want your president to be in their 40’s where they’ve seen and experienced life. As far as flav I love his contribution to PE back in 87-92 . Everything comes to an end !
Trump is only the fifth president to win without the popular vote. He had 304 of the electoral where Clinton had 227. I did some research on the electoral college, and they are necessary. Without them it would just be mob rule. Mob rule is not democracy. No one had a problem with the electoral college or was saying “our votes don’t count” until Trump. Honestly he is the least republican. Pence is way more on the right than Trump is. But we can continue the whole “fight the power” attitude when most people don’t know the consequences of doing so. Gonna be kinda hard to fight the power when a socialist, or really any modern democrat gets in office and starts taking our guns.
Oh really? So when Obama a democrat was in office did u still have your illegal guns???? And what about when Clinton was President in the 90’s i don’t recall anyone complaining about him taking away their illegal automatic weapons if that was the case Colombine wouldn’t have never happened
Your a idiot Clinton didn’t take the automatic rifles that was in 86
Check your facts you illegal fuck
Lmaooooo Savage alert
Are you familiar with dry snitching? Assuming I have any “illegal” guns. Clinton did an “assault weapons” ban. Also which proved to be ineffective. Obama wanted to, and now openly talks about more restrictions. These new age democrat; Obama included are pushing what is called a national gun registry, and/or a buy back program. Which is also ineffective. Feel free to look up on how that worked for Australia. There also wasn’t an automatic weapons used in Columbine, and let’s say there were. Such laws wouldn’t have stopped them. Ideally they would, but we don’t live in a world of ideals. Also, facts don’t care about your feelings.
This doesn’t take away from what they already done together. When u get older, u have to find your own peace. Everybody kno Flav’s situation n know u get tired of that shit too. So we not gonna sit here n judge niggas.
Yeah we are tf you talking bout?
First Flav gets a new lawyer to ask questions about what he’s entitled to (which is his right) now this? Come guys. Chuck loose up a bit.
Bernie’s actual platform is more like European shit. He’s anti-corporate, anti-lobbyist. And fuck dem right-wing boys on here dickriding rap and shitting on black people misinforming the already misinformed. Look into the issues and vote in local, state, midterm, and Presidential elections. That why you bitches aren’t represented. Bernie’s trying to legalize weed the same way Trump put in a travel ban: Executive order. I went to college.
Yes but did you not know, that in for instance sweden, finland, norway and denmark there is communism! No wait was it sharia law and 90% muslims? I cant remember all the nonsense uneducated americans say about us… Anyway, “communist” shit as i pay 20% tax and get “free” healthcare and school.
sweden, finland, norway and denmark are all destined for white genocide, because your “leaders” are controlled by the jooish financial elite.
How can anyone going forward trust anything Chuck D says anymore. Dude said Flav got a year and then a day or 2 later Flav is out. Chuck take all that money, cars, houses, and fame away and what you got left is your word and obviously it isn’t worth shit.
the fact that he would even kick out a man who hes built a bond with for decades, created a musical legacy with, all because of a political candidate. this is even worse than people cutting off their friendship with people they’ve known for years over a difference of opinion on politics or because of who your friend support or don’t support! and what will chuck d say if bernie don’t even win the democrat nomination, let alone the election? hes gonna look like the biggest sucka ever! so disappointing and so retarded this situation!
Maybe some diss songs between the two will happen. Would be funny n exciting actually
Grow up dickhead.
Look at Flava Flav – does he look even remotely intelligent? You seriously think he can write rhymes i mean let’s face it he can’t probably even read.
even if he not he got more heart in himself, then this other bitches that was screaming fight the power, now those suckas should scream fight for power
I don’t think some of you folks are aware that Flav was a child prodigy, multi instrumentalist I think he can do it, my thing and I will always stand by it; he should take his place as a pioneer, the progenitor, living with the rest of the hip hop gods on Mount O-hip-us, bringing the fire a rain, I am saddened by this conflict…not two of my hero’s?
Flava doesnt want to sell his soul
He might have already ! Doing all that Hollywood bullshit ! I don’t blame Chuck D for booting Flav ass out !
No spaces before exclamation marks. F*cking with my eyes. Who does that???
Stop using Flav clock for bs. Now he mad that he checked them. People with no point always check grammar. Who mad about those Hollywood checks? Where are those Sander’s check for him? If he didn’t need Flav, then why use his clock. This girl stuff. How he gonna come hard on an album after this crybaby bs. Public Crybaby
BERNIE SANDERS IS A FUCKIN JOO.
imagine kicking someone out of your crew over a goddamn politcal candidate! when the election is over, and its not your candidate who wins, then what? you gonna like a fucking fool afterwards! chuck d is no longer anti-establishment. hes now apart of it. smdh