Taste Flav Says NBC Booted Him From BSB Dressing Room At Tree Lighting fixtures

Taste Flav didn’t have a holly jolly time at Wednesday evening’s (Dec. 4) Rockefeller Middle Christmas tree lighting fixtures rite. The mythical Public Enemy hype guy was once readily available for the yearly vacation custom and in a since-deleted tweet he mentioned that he was once inexplicably booted from the Backstreet Boys’ dressing room via NBC safety.

“I believe bizarre … I used to be invited to the Rockefeller Tree Lighting fixtures tonite and I used to be escorted to peer my boys … THE BACKSTREET BOYS … and we had been behind the curtain of their dressing room … safety got here as much as me and says @nbc does no longer need me on this space and I want to depart,” he wrote.

The 65-year-old rapper mentioned issues were given even more strange after that. “On the identical time,,, their social media lady got here up and requested to seize social content material,” he wrote. “What did I ever do to NBC or any individual,,?? all I ever do is attempt to unfold pleasure and love,,, and I feel I did that for NBC on the Olympics.”

That latter remark was once particularly pointed in gentle of ways ubiquitous Flav was once at this summer time’s Olympic video games in Paris, which have been broadcast via NBC. The community gave the PE MC plenty of airtime, overlaying his pledge of money and items to the U.S. Ladies’s Water Polo group and select up hire for discus thrower Veronica Fraley, in addition to chronicling his hop round from venue-to-venue cheering at the U.S. groups; Flav mentioned afterwards that he sought after to throw his clock within the ring to be an professional torchbearer on the 2028 L.A. video games.

At press time a spokesperson for NBC had no longer returned Billboard‘s request for remark and it didn’t seem as though the BSB had commented at the alleged incident.

Even though he got rid of the preliminary submit, a dejected Flav later returned to X so as to add, “I deleted the tweet … however my spirit is damaged.” A fan spoke back that they had been sorry that took place to him and mentioned NBC was once improper in reportedly asking him to go away, including that the BSB “will have to have spoken up” in regards to the incident. Flav confident them that “they spoke up for me,,, they positive did.” The New York local additionally later shared a video through which he was once observed having a great time on the tree lighting fixtures, counting right down to the massive second, writing, “Christmas within the town … ain’t not anything just like the Rockefeller tree lighting fixtures.”

See Flav’s tweets beneath.