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Flavor Flav Back in the Spotlight

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    Musician Flavor Flav on his new memoir and latest business venture as a restaurateur.

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Even I remember that that's one of the attitudes that helped make rap group public enemy and our next guest.

A household name the road to success though.

Hasn't been all glitz and glamour for founding member -- -- he battled drug addiction in the 1990s and went on to become the star of his own reality TV show a shaft.

A business owner and now an author of a new book.

Is he ready to fight the power of the entitlement nation we'll get into that coming up.

His book by the ways flavor flavor of the icon of the memoir it is in stores now and we welcome.

Flavor of what it was a very nice guy good to see -- but I am not -- C.

Thank you -- actually says written out -- -- old -- a -- you're you're rewarded the name come from by the way.

Well honestly you know that name came from mom.

You know -- guy that used to babysit -- back in the days name's Kevin stocks you know he's deceased now on everything but I'm.

You know it came from B you know -- and know about.

You know bright colored.

They easily used to put used to put their graffiti up all over the -- eyes large and everybody knew -- -- I -- they -- not you were -- -- the advice eat you know model life -- as you know different -- -- -- hugely different color of sold -- like to have you know -- punches in the minds in America.

Great eats enough Armitage is enough that I had people who might not know years added I don't know who doesn't know you -- -- finish it might not know how you work clocked black and it's a question that and I'm gonna words didn't go ahead.

So anyway.

So being that I used to always eat these different flavored things -- and he's different played with things.

Kevin said that I was a freak for flavors of my name is Rico so he called the week before you -- -- -- when I'm seeing came.

And -- existence.

Rapid on the Mike and stuff I wanted to name that nobody had that nobody else would want but it had them leave something.

-- -- -- -- -- Right now that's south labour came about this -- this book is -- got them so long no that's all right but we don't have coverage at this book is has a lot of confessions -- -- about your lifestyle you were addicted to crack cocaine.

Yeah you that you did a lot of things it got you in trouble attaching in jail I got a confession which is that I used to have to chuck some of your CD's my son.

Was addicted to public enemy and I either saw or read -- from I didn't like it.

Tries to throw -- away when he was when he is that in my house but now he is a US marine that's why we're this'll -- or so we've been apparently unheard of too much -- but.

I gotta ask how is it that.

That this idea the whole culture.

The rap -- came into being because it did a lot of us rejected it because they sought as -- just being anti -- there's nothing wrong with that but being anti.

Police in such close C let me say this you know -- -- -- -- phone James Brown.

-- the first -- book have -- as lie about what his first rap record called public enemy number one.

But then back in the days there was a group called the fat -- -- and they had a record called king -- the third.

That was the firm's real.

Wrapped wreckage you know somebody raping them deliver -- to music and everything you did next that you know contain.

A fat.

Rapidly became a -- and everything you know -- -- -- became huge and that's something that people thought that would die out but.

It didn't Dahlia I hesitate.

The reason why it happened -- out is because everybody's following the cultural -- -- You know I asked once Wynton Marsalis a great musician at all I love when man I -- -- that lies at the rapid soap -- he said because it's simple it's sex it didn't the rhythm is sex they they write about sex and if you're seventeen year old boy you have a choice between Mozart and sex what are you gonna choose.

And -- going alive but right it is almost disease he is -- but -- by Gavin -- -- -- -- Hey not my -- OK I got to ask you about your business ventures you had this this chicken restaurant -- fried chicken restaurant in Iowa.

Yeah -- what's happened -- -- well right now you know I had to shut it down because you know and I first opened it up.

You know I'm saying the -- was great everything was going good buddy didn't -- consisted.

And it -- to to win the game in the food industry.

You've got to have consistency.

So there's not consistent -- what to do was to shut -- down and that you go back to the drawing board and you restructuring and that's what I'm okay.

Either way you're gonna be stick around because you were gonna be dealing with a young entrepreneur who could maybe say take some tips from -- About how to operate her.

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