Flavor Flav to release Solo Debut

Considering how far gone Flav is nowadays I’m not expecting this to come as welcome news to most heads; but due to the success of his appearances on several reality TV shows, the ex-Public Enemy will release a solo album this October.

Considering how far gone Flav is nowadays I’m not expecting this to come as welcome news to most heads; but due to the success of his appearances on several reality TV shows, “rap’s original hype-man” will release a solo album this October.

“I got some things off my chest, but not all,” Flav said. “I doubt I will ever do another one, though. What I’m gonna do is make this one a collector’s item. My first and only solo album, ever.”

The album will be released on his independent label, Draytown Records [through Redeye], and will feature two RnB tracks Let It Show and Two Wrongz (Don’t Make a Right).

“That’s an ass-kicking banger right there,” he says. “I worked hard on that one. Not only that, I’m saying some, real true positive stuff in there, too. Once they get used to it, I think people can accept me singing.”

Flav has reportedly completed two solo albums, both of which were rejected by Def Jam. A third LP, It’s About Time, was due to be released in 1999 but never appeared. A fourth album, Flavor Flav: Rise, Fall, Rise, was scheduled for release in August, 2006.

“The only thing I’m sorry about is it didn’t come sooner,” says Flav. “I think it’s time I give it to ‘em for real.”

I don’t know who’s been following Flav’s TV career over the last two years but it has definitely contributed to some of the more bizarre shit I’ve watched lately.

Season 3 of VH1’s The Surreal Life, which puts has-been actors and musicians in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills for ten days, featured Flavor Flav acting fucking crazy and eventually hooking up with euro-trash, Brigette Neilsen. This led to a spin-off reality show called Strange Love based on their relationship.

Chuck D slammed the series on the Public Enemy website accusing the producers of Flavploitation. “Flavploitation is the systematic one-sidedness of the production companies that are chosen by these big corporate entities,” Chuck writes. “There hasn’t been any change in Flavor at all, he’s always been the same crazy cat from day one. No offense to his friend Bridgitte, but his TV potential has been there long before that pairing. Vh-1’s choosing of this show “Strange Love”, is a smack in the face of all else Flavor has done.”

After Brigette left Flav, he started a Bachelor-esque reality contest called Flavor of Love which had 20 girls competing for the chance to be Flav’s first lady. A model, Hoopz, won the competition but left Flav which prompted season two of the show, breaking rating records for VH1.

The first single off the debut will be a rap-rock track, possibly heading into Bring the Noise territory, called Flavor Man.