Celebrity Name :Flavor Flav

Celebrity Real Name : William Johnathon Drayton Jr.

Date of Birth : March 16, 1959

Birth Location : Roosevelt, Long Island, New York.

Biography of William Johnathon Drayton Jr.:
William Jonathan Drayton Jr. (born March 16, 1959), professionally known as Flavor Flav, is an American rap artist and television star. He is a founding member of the influential politically conscious hip hop group Public Enemy. After falling from the public eye, he has recently regained fame as a star of American reality television. He has starred in a series of highly-rated VH-1 programs, most recently the Flavor of Love series.

Born in Roosevelt, New York on Long Island, William Drayton graduated high school in Freeport, New York before attending Adelphi University. While rapping at Adelphi under the name MC DJ Flavor Flav, he met a graphic-design student, Carlton Ridenhour (Chuck D).
Chuck D, DJ Terminator X, Professor Griff, and Flavor Flav formed Public Enemy and released their debut album Yo! Bum Rush the Show in 1987.
Flav participated in Public Enemy as second rapper or vocalist (the primary vocalist was Chuck D), and as the band’s drummer. His stuttering vocal style has influenced rappers including Busta Rhymes and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard. Providing a comic foil to the political message of Chuck D, some credit Flav with the development of the rap sidekick (often referred to as a “hype man”). Unlike later practitioners of the hype man role, however, Flav’s stage presence and musical contributions were at least as strong as Chuck D’s, and his surreally absurd rapping added a humanizing light-heartedness to the group. In addition to the comic and derisive asides he offers on most Public Enemy performances, he has also taken center stage on songs such as “Too Much Posse,” the bizarre and unforgettable “Cold Lampin’ with Flava,” and “911 Is a Joke,” which provided one of the group’s most colorful music videos. On the group’s 1998 “comeback” single–following a four-year hiatus–”He Got Game,” the title song to a contemporaneous film by Spike Lee, Flav performs essentially a duet with Chuck D.
Flav often wears a clock around his neck, stating that observers will “know what time it is.” The clock became one of Flav’s trademarks, along with comic sunglasses. Flav credits himself as having been the originator of the current platinum grill craze in hip hop fashion.[citation needed] Flav acknowledges that his style is bizarre, and he is proud of his distinctiveness. Another of Flav’s trademarks is his catchphrase, a loud and exaggerated “Yeeeeaaaahhhh Booooyyyy!”
Flav has reportedly completed two solo albums, both of which were rejected by his record label,[8] Def Jam. A third LP, It’s About Time, was due to be released in 1999 but never appeared. A fourth album, “Hollywood,” is scheduled for release on October 31, 2006.

Trivia :
* Flavor Flav has 6 children and would like 4 more before he dies.
* Flav’s current mate is London Charles (Deelishis).
* Flav went to jail more than once.
* Flav as trained as a classical pianist when he was a child.
* Flav attended New York’s Adelphia University.
* Flav rapped under the alias MC DJ Flavor.
* Flav joined Chuck D to form the legendary hip hop group Public Enemy in 1982. *Their controversial hits included “Fight the Power”.
* Flav has six children by two women.
* Flav says he started wearing a clock around his neck because he wanted people to know what time it is.
* Flav appeared in the Taking Back Sunday video “You’re So Last Summer”.[wikipedia]