This summer Flavor Flav has been selected as Comedy Central's latest target to be roasted on television.

Public Enemy hype man and VH1 reality star Flavor Flav is scheduled to be the subject of Comedy Central's upcoming roast; scheduled to air on Sunday, August 12.

"We only roast the ones we love -- and the world is clearly crazy about this guy. This event will be full of surprises as Flavor Flav is going to experience a whole new kind of love in this Roast," Elizabeth Porter, senior vice president of specials and talent for Comedy Central said via statement.
"The Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav" is scheduled to tape in Los Angeles this July. The show will be executive produced by Joel Gallen of Tenth Planet Productions, who also directed and executive produced previous Comedy Central roasts of William Shatner and Pamela Anderson.

The roast is being sponsored by Anheuser Busch, Amp'd and Taco Bell.
Flavor Flav, born William J. Drayton, started his twenty-year career in entertainment as a hype man for Public Enemy and has more recently enjoyed reality television stardom via successful VH1 series' "Surreal Life," "Strange Love," and "Flavor of Love," which resulted in huge rating. Flav is currently touring with Public Enemy front man Chuck D.

"The Comedy Central Roast of Flavor Flav" will air Sunday, August 12 on Comedy Central at 10 p.m. EST.
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Method Man was arrested recently in New York for marijuana possession.
According to New York's Daily News, Meth (born Clifford Smith) was arrested on Thursday (May 17) after rolling down his car window to pay a toll at the Battery Tunnel and a cloud of marijuana smoke pummeled out.
"It was like something out of Cheech and Chong," an unidentified source told the Daily News. "He rolls down the window and the smoke would choke a horse."

Officers picked up Mef near the toll booths on Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn's Carroll Gardens neighborhood around 10 p.m., finding two blunts and a plastic bag containing close to an ounce of pot in his 2005 Lincoln Navigator. The Shaolin rapper was officially charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, criminal possession of marijuana, operating a motor vehicle under the influence and driving an uninspected motor vehicle.
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Given the recent controversies regarding hip-hop music in the media, what better time for the debut LP from Dr. Cornell West? June 19th will see the release of Never Forget: A Journey Of Revelations, on Hidden Beach Recordings imprint, Hidden Beach Forum.
West taps many of today's most outspoken, positive, and politically charged emcees for the record, such as Talib Kweli, Black Though, KRS-One, Andre 3000, Rhymefest, Rah Digga, and M-1 of Dead Prez. Also contributing to the disc will be Prince, Dave Hollister, Malik Yusef, and Gerald Levert, among others.

"This is a very political album that doesn't pull any punches," West told Billboard. "There are critiques of the Bush administration as well as of unaccountable corporate power, unaccountable police power and homophobia. We're trying to get young people to wake up and recognize they're part of a great tradition of struggle, to become organized and fight for freedom and justice."
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