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Sun Jul 6, 2014, 06:11 PM Jul 2014

Rapper Flavor Flav runs afoul of Las Vegas fireworks law

Flavor Flav is his HOA’s Public Enemy Number One.

The rapper’s yearslong battle with neighbors over his annual Fourth of July fireworks show might be at an end after Metro slapped him with two citations Friday night.

The rap artist, whose real name is William Drayton Jr., has been setting off thousands of dollars worth of illegal fireworks since 2009 and this wasn’t his first clash with police over the party in his gated community outside his home. The home is in the 7800 block of Via Ventura Court on the south side of the Las Vegas Valley.

Drayton, 55, is best known as the hype man for the iconic hip-hop group Public Enemy.

His festivities were foiled last year when TMZ reported he planned to set off $8,000 worth of fireworks. After the story broke, the Metropolitan Police Department threatened to throw the rapper in jail if he set off any of the illegal fireworks and Drayton moved the party elsewhere, said Finisterre Homeowners Association board member Harold Ewing.

full: http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/rapper-flavor-flav-runs-afoul-las-vegas-fireworks-law

He doesn't know that "Bring the Noise" is only a SONG dammit!

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