This season’s premiere began with two women brawling over a bed and ended with one contestant defecating on the floor as she raced to the bathroom after a meal that didn’t agree with her. Occasionally, the women even trade blows. The women, who tend to look like castoffs from a bad rap video, dress provocatively (the shorter the skirt, the lower the neckline, the better their chances), engage in raunchy make-out sessions with Flav and, when given the opportunity, profess their undying devotion. Instead of roses, they are given oversize clocks when they’re invited to stay at the end of each show, and the winner is awarded a personalized gold dental grille, a jeweled ornament for the teeth. On “Flavor of Love,” 20 contestants vie for the rap star’s affection while living with him in a mansion in Encino. You’ve got beauties and you’ve got the beast, and it’s become one of those shows you must watch every week.” “Good or bad, our listeners love talking about Flav.
“Anytime we mention ‘Flavor of Love’ on our show, the phone lines start blowing up,” said Donnell Rawlings, a New York morning radio personality on the popular hip-hop radio station Power 105.1. Critics have accused the show of trafficking in racial stereotypes and have called Flav everything from a sellout to a modern-day Stepin Fetchit. On blogs and at the office, on message boards and in op-ed columns, viewers are both riveted and repelled by “Flavor of Love.”įans of the show call it a harmless guilty pleasure, and its star a lovable and unlikely Romeo. That thing has made the show as polarizing as it is popular. “Your man Flavor Flav is doing his thiiiiing.” “I’m the king of VH1,” he crowed over a surf-and-turf dinner at a soul food restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. No one seems to be enjoying the success more than Flav, as he is known to one and all. More than three million people tuned in to watch the second-season premiere early August. The show’s first-season finale in March drew nearly six million viewers, making it the highest-rated show in the cable channel’s history.
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His reality series, “Flavor of Love,” a ghetto-fabulous spoof of the dating series “The Bachelor,” has been a colossal hit for VH1.
These days life is looking a lot brighter. He was scalping baseball tickets for extra cash, battling a long addiction to drugs and racking up arrests for driving without a license. But the performer’s love of big clocks, which developed years before the oversized watch trend hit men’s wrists, has led to a sizable collection.THIS time six years ago, Flavor Flav, the flamboyant clock-wearing member of the groundbreaking rap group Public Enemy, was living in a low-rent apartment near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. He sometimes wears a gold Breitling, though his favorite watch - the brand name escapes him - was given to him by his good friend, infomercial personality Ron Popeil. Now a Las Vegas resident, Flavor Flav doesn’t consider himself a watch aficionado.
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Public Enemy (which was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013) went on to hit it big with such politically charged hits as “Don’t Believe the Hype” and “Fight the Power.” In the mid-2000s, Flavor Flav enjoyed a round in the reality TV spotlight when he starred on VH1’s Strange Love and Flavor of Love. This was in 1986, four years after the seminal rap group came together. See more Hip-Hop’s Bling-iest Music Videos of All Time I thought the look of the clock around my neck was dope, so I kept it on,” says Flavor Flav. “Someone in my crew put a shower clock around my neck and dared me to keep it on during our show. Wearing a stopwatch around your neck was, he recalls, an urban look in the mid-’80s. tells THR that his style was the result of a dare. The rapper - a child musical prodigy from Long Island born William Jonathan Drayton Jr.
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