Flavor Flav is checking one other celeb run-in off his bucket checklist!
The Public Enemy rapper, 65, shared a video to X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday, Sept. 12, documenting his heartwarming assembly with Paul Simon — somebody he mentioned he is been listening to since he was a baby.
Within the footage taken at a New York Yankees recreation this week, Flav will be seen strolling as much as the 82-year-old singer-songwriter because the pair shared a giant hug and held one another’s shoulders whereas attending to know each other.
“Oh my God, that is wonderful,” Flav, wearing a Yankees jersey and cap, mentioned whereas hugging Simon. “Oh man. That is loopy.”
After Simon requested the MC if “you guys” — seemingly referring to Public Enemy — have been from Brooklyn, Flav clarified that he is from Lengthy Island, earlier than bowing right down to Simon and holding his arms. “Ever since I used to be a child, bro,” Flav mentioned, as Simon touched his face. “At all times been a giant fan.”
“This can be a dream come true assembly you,” he added on the finish of the clip, earlier than the duo received to speaking in regards to the Olympics.
Flav additionally uploaded a photograph with Simon, taken after he let the two-time Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame inductee attempt on his white sun shades. “Howdy Paul Simon, my previous good friend,,, My Lengthy Misplaced Pal, You Can Name Me Al and naturally you may put on my sun shades!!!” Flav wrote.
“Such an honor to fulfill this icon and thank him for all the pieces he’s executed for world music.”
Flav posted the second on Instagram, as properly, the place he revealed that Simon advised him, ‘Right here, let me put on your glasses.’
“WOOWWW,!!! What an honor to fulfill this icon and thank him for all the pieces he has executed for music and world music,” he reiterated. “I can’t wait to return again and go to a Yankees recreation WITH him.”
Simon reposted the sentiment on his personal Instagram Story, alongside the message, “Nice time operating into @flavorflavofficial.”
Flav has rubbed shoulders with fairly a couple of new buddies in latest months, with headline-making interactions involving Guy Fieri, First Woman Jill Biden, Billie Eilish, Bruce Springsteen and naturally, Taylor Swift.
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Earlier this week, the Public Enemy MC offered on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards — the place he not solely handed Swift and Put up Malone their Moonman for greatest collaboration, but additionally surprised Olympian Jordan Chiles along with her very personal bronze clock necklace after she was stripped of her bronze medal following the gymnastics ground train ultimate in August. “I received you one thing that they can not take away from you,” Flav mentioned on the time, bestowing the timepiece on Chiles, 23.
“And guess what else, too,” Flav later added. “I received your prize cash, too. I received that for you. I received that for you. I received your prize cash for you. I simply needed to shock you with that. I did not wish to say nothing to you backstage.”
“However Jordan, you probably did your factor. Congratulations. You deserve all the pieces.”