In a recent interview, Flavor Flav opened up about his trademark clock necklace…and he says a crackhead was the reason behind it.
“So one day, as a joke, as a joke, you know, this crackhead came through my projects, you know what I’m saying? Selling these shower clocks that she stole from a place called Fortunoff,” Flavor Flav told Roxanne Shante.
He continued, “Well, she went to Fortunoff, stole this big bag, big box of shower clocks came through our projects selling them. So my boy, Son of Berserk, you know what I’m saying? He took the stopwatch off my neck and put the clock around my neck and everybody was laughing. It was a big joke and all of that. So they dared me to wear that clock on stage, but during the show. So when we went to open up for the Beastie Boys in Passaic, New Jersey, 1986, I wore the clock, Roxanne, and then the next day on the front page of Newsday, New York Times, New York Post, the look of the clock was dope.”
Flavor Flav has been open about his own battle with addiction but he recently celebrated his sobriety.
