Flavor Flav

Born William Drayton on March 16, 1959, rapper and reality television star Flavor Flav emerged in the late '80s as the humorous hypeman of Public Enemy and then reinvented himself in the 2000s thanks to VH1's reality series The Surreal Life. Raised in Freeport, Long Island, he was a self-taught prodigy on the piano but petty theft and burglary charges meant his teen years were spent dodging the department of corrections. After dropping out of high school in his junior year, music came back into Flav's life when he began hosting a college radio program with Carlton Douglas Ride...