8PM HE WATCH CHANNEL ZERO
Right now, I live between New York and LA, so what I do on my night off depends on where I am. If I was in London, I’d be with my boy Tim Westwood, and maybe we’d take two girls down to Tower Bridge and count the waves. I don’t know too much about movies, DVDs, TV or nothin’. I’m serious — Flavor Flav has been in his own zone, for real. Mostly I’ve been creatin’ my solo album, which is coming soon. I’m trying to rush it out. I ain’t from America, I’m from Russia.
9PM FIGHT THE POWER
I never was really very good with video games. I just recently got into it when my manager gave me a PlayStation2 with the Def Jam Fight for New York game. I’m in that game: I have to learn how to play my character, and I’m supposed to be going up against, I think, Carmen Electra in a competition playing it on national TV. We’ve got to fight each other. And she’s gonna win! But if she beats me, at least people will say: “Well, Flav tried.”
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11PM MORE FOOD AT 11
I think by now it’s time for me to be fryin’ chicken, or makin’ Manwiches, kchzz kchzz kchzz! Yes, Manwiches — M-A-N-W-I-C-H. It’s a sauce, called Sloppy Joe’s, but they call it Manwich, too. You take the sauce, you mix it with beef and put it on the bread. It’s good!
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MIDNIGHT BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN
I’m not much of a reader. The only time I ever read is when I’ve got a movie script, or someone is writin’ about me. The scripts I’ve been reading have come from various writers. My boy Fredro Starr, from the group Onyx, he gave me a script right now, and I’m looking forward to working on this movie with him. He gave me a co-starring lead role in this film. Finally!
1AM TIME BOMB
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What you wanna know about my clock collection? The clock defines time, being the most important element we have in our life, and we can’t afford to waste it. I got 87 of ‘em, all different shapes, sizes, forms, fashions, from all over the world. People have made all kinds o’ clocks for me. The cuckoo clock I got that comes from Switzer-land has got a little Flav in it that comes out at two o’clock; he comes out and goes: “ Yeaaaah, boyyyeee!”, “Yeaaaah, boyyyeee!”
3AM NIGHT OF THE LIVING PIE HEADS
The last thing I do is eat a pot pie. Chicken pot pie, beef pot pie — they’re like hot pots. You put ‘em in the oven and heat ‘em up. I always eat a pot pie and drink some soda before I go to bed, for real. That gives me the perfect night’s sleep. Pot pies. I always eat a pot pie before I go to bed, G. Pot pies. Pot pies. I love pot pies.
Interview by Angus Batey. Flavor Flav appears in The Surreal Life on TMF every Thursday at 10.30pm; his debut solo album is expected in the spring