Public Enemy Cuts Ties with Flavor Flav Following Disagreement: We 'Wish Him Well'

Flavor Flav has been ousted from the group he co-founded 35 years in the past.

On Sunday, Public Enemy introduced that it will not rely the 60-year-old rapper and actuality TV character as part of the group. Public Enemy — recognized for songs like “Battle The Power” and “Don’t Consider The Hype” — was shaped in 1985 and nonetheless features one other unique member, Chuck D.

“Public Enemy and Public Enemy Radio might be shifting ahead with out Taste Flav. We thank him for his years of service and need him nicely,” learn a press release from the group, in response to Rolling Stone.

A rep for Taste Flav didn't immediately reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.

In a press release to USA Today given by his lawyer, Flav, born William Jonathan Drayton Jr., stated “there isn't any Public Enemy without Taste Flav.”

“Flav reached out in the curiosity of unity, supporting Chuck’s right to speak his mind however without unnecessarily misleading the public. Unfortunately, in the intervening time, Chuck has opted to fireside off an more and more unhinged collection of tweets …” read the statement. “Chuck might personal the identify Public Enemy but all you had to do was take a look at the plenty of clock-wearing fans pouring out of the rally … to know that there isn't any Public Enemy with out Flavor Flav.”

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Information of the musical breakup comes after Flav despatched a cease and desist letter to Bernie Sanders regarding a rally that Chuck D, 59, was set to seem at over the weekend.

In the letter, Flav clarified that he didn’t endorse any candidate, although advertising for the occasion made it look as if the entire group was cosigning.

“While Chuck is definitely free to precise his political view as he sees match — his voice alone doesn't converse for Public Enemy. The deliberate performance will solely be Chuck D of Public Enemy, it won't be a efficiency by Public Enemy. Those who really know what Public Enemy stands for know what time it is, there isn't a Public Enemy with out Flavor Flav,” the letter said, in accordance with NBC News.

“Hey Bernie, don’t do this,” Flav stated in a handwritten word at the end of the letter.

After making his look on the Sanders rally on Sunday, Chuck D wrote on Twitter: “If there was a $bag, Flav would’ve been there entrance & middle. He will NOT do free benefit exhibits.” Chuck D also tweeted that his “final straw was way back.”

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The hip-hop group was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013, at which era singer Harry Belafonte referred to as them “radical, revolutionary change brokers.”

In response to USA At the moment, Flav added in a press release that the group he helped create “wasn’t a dictatorship it was a movement based mostly on the best way we lived in our neighborhood and what we confronted in our group.”

“We faced poverty and violence and we have been ignored by our authorities and the media — all we have been left with was family,” stated Flav. “I don’t need our family and our motion damaged up.”

He added: “I hope that Public Enemy can get again to doing the great works we've finished for 30 years … not for money however for individuals like me who've been denied their rights to take part due to … insurance policies.”

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