Can’t Truss it: Flavor Flav Issues Cease and Desist to Bernie Sanders for Grossly Misleading that Public Enemy Endorses His Candidacy

The Bernie Sanders campaign announced last week that Public Enemy would be headlining a campaign rally in Los Angeles that tactically suggested the legendary hip-hop group endorses the candidate. Flavor Flav, née William Drayton issued a cease and desist saying in part that the campaign is creating a ”grossly misleading narrative” that Flav and PE endorse his candidacy.

The letter, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, says that while the group’s other founder, Chuck D, will be performing at the Sanders event, that doesn’t constitute an endorsement of the band for the Democratic presidential hopeful.  The letter adds, ‘The continued publicizing of this grossly misleading narrative is, at a minimum, careless and irresponsible if not intentionally misleading. Flav is reaching out, not in the spirit of division, but for the sake of unity in the hope of preserving the integrity of the Public Enemy Movement and the faith and trust his millions of fans around the world have placed in him.’”

Spin magazine added, “To be clear Flav and, by extension, the Hall of Fame hop hop act Public Enemy with which his likeness and name have become synonymous has not endorsed any political candidate in this election cycle and any suggestion to the contrary is plainly untrue. … Flav has always delivered his authentic self. That authenticity compels him to speak out to ensure voters are not misled and that Public Enemy’s music does not become the soundtrack of a fake revolution.”