Chuck D’s home loss is revealed in filing relating to colleague Flavor Flav’s lawsuit against him
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Public Enemy might think 911 is a joke, but it sounds like the wildfires that ravaged Southern California late last year were far from a laughing matter for Chuck D.
The rapper Chuck D lost his home in the Ventura County, California, wildfire last month, according to court papers obtained by TheWrap.
The papers were filed in late December in relation to a lawsuit filed by Public Enemy hype-man Flavor Flav (real name: William Drayton) filed against Chuck D (real name: Carlton Ridenhour).
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The papers describe Flavor Flav’s difficulty in serving the suit to Chuck D.
“Plaintiff attempted to serve Ridenhour or his wife in his home. As the Court can see, attempts were made on October 12 and October 13,2017,” the court papers read. “An attempt was made again on December 8,2017, but Ridenhour’s home was in the path of the Ventura County fires,” the papers read.
“Plaintiff has since learned that Ridenhour’s home burned down in the fire, and he is believed to be living in [a] hotel at an unknown location.”
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TheWrap has reached out to Chuck D’s management in regard to the court papers’ claims.
As previously reported by TheWrap, Flavor Flav filed suit against Chuck D and others in August, claiming that he’s owed profits from his work with the pioneering rap group.
In the suit, Flav alleges that money and property rights have been usurped from the rap icon.
“This action involves the usurpation of money and property rights from Plaintiff William J. Drayton, known as ‘Flavor Flav.’ Drayton is recognized as one of the two key members of groundbreaking Hip Hop group Public Enemy. Public Enemy have been inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and have sold tens of millions of records,” the suit reads. “Despite Drayton’s position in Public Enemy, the group’s management and related companies have for years attempted to minimize his role in the Public Enemy business, while continuing to rely upon Drayton’s fame and persona to market the brand.”
Pamela Chelin contributed to this report.
27 Shamefully Underrated Rappers, From E-40 to Soopafly (Photos)
Just because rappers don’t get the recognition they deserve doesn’t mean they’re no good. Here are 27 of the most underrated rappers and some of their most fire lyrics.
E-40 (Vallejo, California)
«I be more hipper than a hippopotamus / Get off in your head like a neurologist / Pushin more weight than Atlas / Got a partner by the name of 2Pacalypse»
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Childish Gambino (Los Angeles)
«And yes I’m in the building like a horror movie killer / I gotta stay sick, I’d be dead if I was iller / Is it weird going hard when these n—-s goin pillow? / Yep, my life is great, I changed my stars / I re-arrange fate when I rap on bars»
— «I’m On It»
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Meek Mill (Philadelphia)
«I used to pray for times like this, to rhyme like this / So I had to grind like that to shine like this / In a matter of time I spent on some locked up shit / In the back of the paddy wagon, cuffs locked on wrists»
— «Dreams and Nightmares» Getty Images
Kevin Gates (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
«Full time father, full time artist / Asked God, he said «grind harder»/ Learn from every time you ever fail / If it never fail just grind smarter»
— «I Don’t Get Tired»
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Nipsey Hussle (Los Angeles)
«Young Nipsey Hussle ain’t some shit that you should sleep on / Rich before rap had to let the streets go / Faith in my transition I know I’ll be back in beast mode»
— «Rose Clique» Getty Images
Gza (Brooklyn, NY)
In mic fights I swing swords and cut clowns / Shit is too swift to bite you record and write it down / I flow like the blood on a murder scene, like a syringe / On some wild out shit, to insert a fiend
— «Liquid Swords»
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Big L (New York)
«The iron horse is the train and champagne is bubbly / A deuce is a honey that’s ugly / If your girl is fine, she’s a dime / A suit is a fine, jewelry is shine / If you in love, that mean you blind / Genuine is real, a face card is a $100 bill / A very hard, long stare is a grill»
— » Ebonics » YouTube
Aceyalone (Los Angeles)
“By the powers vested in me, I digested MCs / Food for thought, caught on to the end of the rope and swung / Then stood stiff, as if I was on a cliff / Knobby knee sticks, my feet are made of bricks / When I walk, my footprints indent cement»
— » Guidelines » Mass Appeal
Kurupt (Hawthorne, California)
«Psychosomatic, automatic static / Catatonic, supersonic, bubonic chronic addict / Astronomical in the Thunderdome center / In the depths of the dungeon, dangerous, dastardly»
— » I Call Shots » Getty Images
Jadakiss (Yonkers, NY)
«‘Kiss hit you with consecutive hot shit / Therefore nobody ever gon’ spit like I spit / Get money just to walk through, off the books / So when you mention my name, shit is off the hook»
— «Put Ya Hands Up» Getty Images
Del the Funky Homosapien (Oakland)
«Volatile with my profile, like Molotovs / MC’s must be on auto-pilot, waddle silent / Like some platypuses, Del is down with data pushers / With top secret floppy disk and battle armor and Mecha / Plus all the rhymes that I’m bangin are double-decker, to check ya»
— » Oakland Blackouts » Getty Images
Wale (Washington, D. C.)
«Chip on my shoulder, big enough to feed Cambodia / See, I never fit into they quotas / Sneakers wasn’t fitting and my knees needed lotion / Long before I knew the significance of a comb / I roam like phone with no vocal reception / Immigrant parents had me feeling like a step-kid / And black Americans never did accept me»
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Lupe Fiasco (Chicago)
«Your child’s future was the first to go with budget cuts / If you think that hurts then, wait here comes the uppercut / The school was garbage in the first place, that’s on the up and up / Keep you at the bottom but tease you with the upper crust»
— «Words I Never Said»
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Big Pun (Bronx, New York)
«Dead in the middle of Little Italy, little did we know / That we riddled two middlemen who didn’t do diddly»
— » Twinz (Deep Cover 98) » YouTube
DJ Quik (Compton, California)
«The producer get funky down to the last ounce / And I’m creative too — so I don’t need «Mo’ Bounce» / But to you suckas in my city claimin’ I got a «Def Wish» / You should try again fool, you ain’t hittin’ near this»
— «Way 2 Fonky» Getty Images
Beanie Sigel (Philadelphia)
«But still I cry tears of a hustler / Wipe tears from my mother, pull out beers for her brothers / That’s above us, make beds for the babies / Tuck kids under covers, buy cribs for their mothers / Shit, I’ll probably be wilding with their fathers / Tell Ms. Robert, tell Anajmah that I’m riding for her father»
— » What We Do » Getty Images
Soopafly (Long Beach, California)
«Recoginiz, I let you kick it / You let me stick it, then I ric it / Say you law fit, toss it, its gone / I don’t like to talk on the phone»
— » Dat Whoopty Woop » YouTube
Q-Tip (Queens, New York)
«People give your ears so I be sublime / It’s enjoyable to know you and the concubine / N—-s, take off your coats ladies, act like gems / Sit down, Indian style, as we recite these hymns / See, lyrically I’m Mario Andretti on the mo-mo / Ludicrous, we speedy, or infectious with the slow-mo»
— » Award Tour » Getty Images
Keith Murray (Long Island, New York)
«I launch tomahawk missiles when I talk / With promiscuous intelligence like Mr.
