Flavor Flav Pulled Over And Working On Solo Album

02/29/2000 7:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(2/29/00, 7 a.m. ET) - Rumors that flamboyant rapper Flavor Flav is in jail are untrue, according to Flav's manager. The Public Enemy member was pulled over last week and was found to be driving with a suspended license. He was released without having charges filed, his manager said.

In related news, Flav is in the studio working on his long-delayed solo album, It's About Time, which is expected for release by the beginning of May. The album features a collaboration with fellow rappers the Beatnuts and has Flav interpreting Chicago's "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" on the title track. The man who made wearing clocks fashionable plays drums, bass, congas, guitars, keyboards, and piano on the album, which he also produced. Reports of a Flavor Flav solo album began surfacing in the early 1990s, when Public Enemy was still signed to Def Jam Recordings, home of LL Cool J, Slick Rick, and others. Flavor had solo songs on such Public Enemy albums as It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back and Fear Of A Black Planet.

-- Soren Baker, Los Angeles

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