Squeezin’ 15 Minutes of Fame!!!

Deelishis, Shay, Buckeey, Buddha and Midget Mike were in Houston this past weekend. Why? Who knows for sure, but checkout the pics from AllTheParties.com. Questions: Are these FOL Alums  still relevant?  Does Buckeey look drunk to you?

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Middle-Aged Bassheads: Flav and Chuck D in London

it’s the night of the middle-aged bassheads, and it threatens to be every bit as distressing as the Sex Pistols’ reunion gigs. Public Enemy got back together for a rare anniversary performance of 1988’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, the album that brought underground NYC sounds and radical black politics together and helped push hip-hop firmly into the mainstream. Twenty-one years ago, Public Enemy’s seminal first tour of the UK was met with a mixture of excitement and outrage not witnessed since the punk explosion. “I was excited, but I was also terrified,” one fan who saw that first tour aged 16 told me.

Flavor Flav and Chuck D are in their late forties now, and so, you can tell from looking around, are many of their fans, but the Friday-night atmosphere is charged, for in many ways this is a homecoming gig. It Takes a Nation of Millions . . . begins with the words “London, England . . . consider yourselves WARNED!” over a howl of air-raid sirens, and there has always been a special bond between Public Enemy and the capital.  

As the pre-show dubstep booms out, a grinning Flavor Flav, with a coterie of women hanging off his arm, moves past me through the crowd. These days Flav is more known for his eye-popping exploits on reality TV than as Chuck D’s right-hand man in the most powerful political rap group of all time. Fortunately by 11pm the famous “target” stage backdrop is in place, and it’s down to business and a raucous procession down memory lane, without the unseemly cynicism (or paunches) of the Sex Pistols reunion shows.

“There’s always some shit with governments, that’s how you know it’s Public Enemy,” Chuck D says early on, explaining why the controversial group member Professor Griff got stuck behind in New York. This generates some faint-hearted “Fight the power” type whoops, but it’s one of few overtly political statements during an evening which is more about celebration than insurrection: “Party for Your Right to Fight”, as Public Enemy would have it.

There may be only two frontmen in Public Enemy tonight, but the stage is still full, with guitar, bass and drums accompanying the Bomb Squad on the decks. And then there are the S1Ws (Security of the First World), the group’s unintentionally camp bodyguards. They stand in formation at the back of the stage, wearing camouflage, arms folded, occasionally breaking out to do a little drill: a few steps forward, a turn, then back again. You wonder whether they have day jobs.

“Every time I come to London I’m always coming back home. This is my second home,” Flavor Flav announces to wild cheers, and as well as hyping the crowd he does his fair share of rapping. While it’s difficult to say this about a man who wears comically oversized timepieces around his neck, he is no court jester – he’s no Bez – and Chuck D’s faith in sticking by the eccentric host of Flavor of Love is more than vindicated.

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Candace is Moving On

The third season of Flavor of Love ended with Thing 2 bagging Flavor Flav and bringing home the bacon, but viewers were even more surprised when, during the reunion show, Flavor Flav got down on his knees and proposed to none other than the mother of his children, Liz, who wasn’t even part of the show to begin with!  Since then, the women of Flavor of Love moved on to other ventures, and that includes Candace Cabrera, who’s more popularly known on the show as just Black.

“I’m doing a lot of parties and I just shot Smooth.  I did a Hype Williams video for Lloyd and Lil’ Wayne’s ‘Girls All Around the World.’ Hype is amazing so he had us in silver body paint like robots,” Black tells VH1.  ”I did The Foxhole with Jamie Foxx, which was fun. I did a shoot for an Xbox video game, too.  And I got a couple of things coming up that should be out by the end of this year.”  

During Flavor of Love’s third season, however, we heard some rumors about how Black was pretending to be all “gangsta” and coming from the African American race.  However, Black cleared this out by saying, “There were a couple of things that were cut and edited that I wasn’t happy with, like when they asked about my ethnicity and they made it look like I didn’t know if I was white or Hispanic.  I also think that people forget that I didn’t ask to be called ‘Black.’  I wanted to be called ‘Blue,’ but Flav named me after the color of my dress.  It had nothing to do with how I act or the way I talk or anything dealing with skin color or ethnicity.”

Nonetheless, she says that she was one of the women who were truly attracted to Flavor Flav, despite him being far from the typical tall, dark and handsome bachelor.

“Everyone asks, ‘How can you be into him?’  But to me, it’s not about the way someone looks, it’s about how they make me feel,” Black explained.  ”Being with him, I felt ways that I haven’t felt with anyone else.  He’s very special to me and just spending time with him and talking to him one-on-one, just the things we’d talk about-he was able to tell me things about myself that no one else had.  He really could see into me as a person, and I saw into him and I loved what I saw.”

Now that her stint on Flavor of Love is over, fans can catch her as she launches her own website, CandaceCabrera.com and pursues her modeling career.

-Valerie Anne del Castillo, BuddyTV Staff Columnist

Public Enemy performs at Manchester Academy

Public Enemy were missing group member Professor Griff. He could not make it (he is not allowed a passport for some reason). The rest of the original line up are there; Chuck D, Flavor Flav and clock, Terminator X and the Security Of The First World dancers.

‘Bring The Noise’, with its sirens, wake up the whole room and everyone is bouncing or waving their arm in the air. Public Enemy paved the way for modern hip hop, and this is the album that did it.

(Chuck D and Flav)

‘Don’t Believe The Hype’ is still a catchy mother of a tune, along with ‘Terminator X To The Edge of Panic’ and ‘Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos’. Chuck tells us that the first side of the album was meant to be the second side, and it should have started with ‘Show Em Whatcha Got’, but was rearranged so that there was more of a build up. Unlike many bands today he embraces the mobile recording generation, by telling us to “get out your camera phones ‘cos here comes ‘Caught, Can We Get a Witness?’”. Many people are too busy dancing to oblige though.

There’s a few rants, like when Chuck’s phone was not working for two months between the hours of midnight and 2am, which could have been caused by bugging, but many high points, like Flavor encouraging the crowd to match his yells of “Aye!”, one of which is held for a bloody long time. This is a memorable gig to those who made it in, the entire album straight out live; it doesn’t happen that often, and not with pioneers like Public Enemy.

Setlist:

Countdown to Armageddon
Bring the Noise
Don’t Believe the Hype
Cold Lampin With Flavor
Terminator X to the Edge of Panic
Mind Terrorist
Louder Than a Bomb
Caught, Can We Get a Witness?
Show em Whatcha Got
She Watch Channel Zero?!
Night of the Living Baseheads
Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
Security of the First World
Rebel Without a Pause
Prophets of Rage
Party For Your Right to Fight

Article and Photo by Danielle Millea

Thing 2 Speaks About Being in the Competition with Her Sister

Flava Flav just upstaged Brad Womack’s twist to The Bachelor with his decision to propose to the woman who gave birth to his children.  Despite this, Flava Flav chose Thing 2 in the finale of the season, making her believe that they indeed had a happy ending.  But bitterness aside, Thing 2 now has a life and career after Flavor of Love, and has been working on other projects.  She recently spoke with VH1 to talk about her experiences on the show, and how her sister’s presence in the competition really helped her through it.  In fact, Thing 2 says that it was hard seeing her sister go after Thing 1’s elimination.

“It was tough.  You’re coming in with someone you know, you love and you trust.  And then to have that taken away in such a stressful environment, it was hard,” Thing 2 told VH1.  ”But we knew it was going to come to that.  Ultimately, if Flav was really looking for love, he couldn’t possibly pick two sisters.”  

Truly, Flava Flav decided to keep Thing 2 and let Thing 1 go.  However, this did not spawn any bitterness between the two.  In fact, Thing 1 was very happy for her sister when Flava Flav chose Thing 2 in the finale.

“She was happy.  If it wasn’t going to be her, she wanted it to be me, and if it wasn’t going to be me, I wanted it to be her,” Thing 2 says.  ”She was more ecstatic than I was.”

Moreover, Thing 2 admits that their bond as sisters could never be broken, saying, “No, no.  A man would never come between us.”

Despite being twins, Thing 2 says that there’s still a slight difference between them, aside from their weight, of course.  Thing 2 says, “My sister’s a little more relaxed, and I’m a little more up-tempo.  I’m a little more boisterous.”

Now that Flavor of Love is over, it seems that Thing 2 has no regrets, and is looking forward to her other projects.

“Wonderful.  It was a life-changing experience,” she says of her stint on Flavor of Love. “It gave me so many opportunities and made me look at life in a new perspective.  I’m really glad I got this chance.  I had a great time, and I’d do it over again.”

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