Flav Flav shows love for Eminem in new interview.
Flav Flav recently made an appearance on DJ Whoo Kid’s show on Shady 45 through Call where the founding member of Public Enemy showed respect and love for Eminem and responded to criticism of his place in hip-hop as a white rapper.
“Eminem is my favourite rapper. Word up,” he said. “And not only that, he still shouts Flavor Flav out in his records. Yeah boy. You know what? Check this out. I don’t care how they trying to color my man it don’t stop him from being number one. That’s all I got to say. And being number one don’t have no color, alright. Word up man. Yeah, Eminem man. He’s the best rapper alive right now man. Can’t nobody beat him out. When you can’t be beat, that means you are the best.”
He continued: “Let me tell you something. Back in the day, when Eminem, Snoop, Dre, they had this group together and this is when the first time Eminem seen me and when he seen me, he went absolutely crazy. I didn’t know who he was at that time. I gave him mad love man. He went crazy over me and I gave mad love. Let me say like this, because a lot of those guys [Redman, LL Cool J, Nas] are like mentors to Em. But then Em is like a mentor to them too. It’s all a mutual respect thing. That’s one thing I could say about Eminem. He has mad, mad respect from all of the legends in the rap game but he’s a legend himself. For real.”
Last year, Flav also visited Eminem’s Mom’s Spaghetti restaurant in Detroit. “Yo, Eminem… Flavor Flav, right here at your spot,” he said in the video at the time. “Eating Mom’s Spaghetti while it’s still hot, you know what I’m saying? Let me tell you something. This is some real good spaghetti Eminem. I ain’t gonna lie G. You know I had to come and support you man. Word up! And thank you for shouting me out on your records. You’ve been shout out Flavor Flav on your records and I love you man. You are best rapper alive bro, You need to know that… So is Mom’s Spaghetti. Hahaha.”
