William Jonathan Drayton Jr. was born in the year 1959 on 16th March. He is better known by his stage name “Flavor Flav”. He was born in Roosevelt, New York in the United States of America. More surprisingly, he started playing piano from his fifth year. And he didn’t even seek any help. In early age he sang in the youth choir at his church. He also got mastered in drums and guitar. Flav couldn’t be successful in education as he dropped out in 11th grade. In 1978, he got graduated from culinary school. This got him the opportunity to work in numerous restaurants. Later he attended Adelphi University and got a chance to work with Chuck D.
Music and television
Flav was the founding member of Public Enemy. And he was considered as the hype man of the rap group. In 1984, the group released a track named “public enemy 1”. This got him an opportunity to work with Rick Rubin. In 1987, the group released their first album “Yo! Bum Rush The Show”. In 1988 they got into fame by releasing “It takes a nation of millions to hold us back”. Flav’s group became mainstream superstars in 1989 through “Fight the Power”. Later Flav released his first solo album during the second season of Flavor of Love. Being so popular he got an opportunity to star on television shows. The show “strange love” brought him good fame. He even played Calvester Hill on the My Network TV comedy “Under One Roof”.
Restaurateur
Even though Flav worked round the clock in media, still he got culinary interest. In 2011, he partnered with Nick Cimino in Clinton, Lowa. They started their own “Flav’s Fried Chicken”. The success of this homemade fried chicken allowed them to open national restaurant franchise. But later in 2013, the partners couldn’t afford the rent. This made their Flavor Flav’s chicken and ribs to end.
Personal life
By 2000, Flav dated Beverly Johnson. He lived with her children as a family. But later they ended up and Flavor moved to Los Angeles. Even though he had complicated marriage history, he got seven children: Shanique, Karen, William, Dazyna, Quanah, Kayla and Karma. His wife Elizabeth lived with him for eight years in Las Vegas. She was the mother of his youngest son Karma. Flav spent quality years with his mother, Anna Drayton. And later in 2013, Anna died. His personal life brought numerous changes in Flav’s social life. Yearly, Flavor is receiving $935,000 as gross salary. And his estimated net worth is around $3 million.
Legal Issues
He got detention earlier for robbery and burglary in childhood itself. In 1991, he went into distress by assaulting his then-girlfriend Karen Ross. This took him into addiction. Again the same year he got charged with domestic violence, related with cocaine and marijuana charges. Later in 2002 and 2011, he was charged with the driving violation. All this together, these legal issues kept him out of fame. At last he was arrested again in 2015 for driving violation. His biography got enlisted with numerous detentions and charges.
After being tried his career in culinary and music, Flav got quality fame among general public. Even though his social life is a mess, he still got his own fans.
| Birth Date: | 16 Mar, 1959 |
| Age: | 61 yrs |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Long Island |
| Education: | Adelphi University |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American rapper |
| Net Worth 2021: | 2 million |
