Rap Legend Flavor Flav Attacked in Las Vegas Casino

Legendary rapper Flavor Flav met his own ‘public enemy’ when he was filmed being assaulted in the lounge of the South Point Casino in Las Vegas, the 58-year old’s beatdown going viral after TMZ picked up the footage.

The rapper, real name William Jonathan Drayton Jr., received ‘minor injuries’ in the assault two nights ago in the popular casino, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department spokesman Larry Hatfield stated – the beating alleged to be related to comments Flav made about his attacker’s mother.

The Flavor Flav poker shot-clock?

The rapper rose to stardom as part of Public Enemy, a group formed in New York in 1986 and infamous for their politicised form of rap – inducted into the Music Hall of Fame in 2013 after winning numerous Grammy’s and other awards.

Flavor Flav is known for his distinctive hip-hop style of dress, including an oversized clockface worn on a neckchain which prompted WSOP Director Ty Stewart to joke about dealers adopting his fashion in the poker clock shot debate a few years back…

Although not known as a poker player, Flav is a regular at Las Vegas casinos, although the fracas this week may change this. His attacker, named as Ugandi Howard, cited for misdemeanor battery after the attack, which happened close to the casino’s 22-table, round-the-clock poker room.

According to TMZ, Drayton told security and police officers that Howard launched his attack after accusing Flav of disrespecting Howard’s mother – the gossip site adding, ‘Ironically, the Public Enemy rapper was wearing a Muhammad Ali, Rumble in the Jungle jacket during the fight’.

Poker and Rap

Although there are a few musicians and rappers who play poker – coincidentally Scott Ian of US metal band Anthrax one of them, Anthrax collaborating with Flavor Flav’s Public Enemy on Grammy Award-winning ‘Bring the Noise’ – poker players are more often seen taking to the rap world, Prahlad Friedmann and Ilaries ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies perhaps the two best-known efforts…

Although this rap duel between MTT pro Alex 'Assassinato' Fitzgerald and poker fanatic freestyle rapper Peter ‘The Saurus’ Morris has to make the top 3…