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Rapper and reality star Flavor Flav dishes on fried chicken, his new soul food restaurant in Las Vegas, Public Enemy’s next album and more.


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Flavor Flav’s House of Flavor opens in Las Vegas this week as Sin City’s most prominent soul food takeout joint. The rapper and reality star behind the self-titled venture spoke with Pop & Hiss about waffles, clocks and the culinary arts.

What’s on the menu?

My secret (shhhh) fried chicken recipe. That’s the star. But we have a red velvet waffle too, and everyone goes ohhhh when they hear that. Go on, you can say it.

I heard you grew up cooking.

Yeah. My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school.

Did you get your degree?

I sure did. 1978. Albertson, N.Y.

Did you want to open a place back then?

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Nahh. My main thing was to have a good job. I was head cook at the Nassau County courthouse and at Uniondale High School before I was Public Enemy. I was also a school bus driver.

Are you working on any music now?

Me and my partner Chuck D are working on our next Public Enemy album. We should have it out to you by August.

Will you do a reality show at the restaurant?

Remember the diner in “Happy Days”? I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.

Really?

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Yeah, I remember the Fonz. Whooaaa. And the Cunninghams? I loved them. Ah, Richie.

What’s the theme of your place?

Things showcasing my career, a lot of pictures up of me and my celebrity friends. I’ll wait until we expand to put all my clocks on the wall.

You had a takeout place in Iowa, right?

Yeah, it was called Flav’s Fried Chicken — FFC. I shut that down, but I’m gonna open another one in Detroit in April. After that, FFC is coming to L.A.

All you celebs with restaurants need to have a cook-off.

I guarantee I would win that battle, ’cause all my recipes got me in ’em! Haaaaa!

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