Jimbo Jones's Blog

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We've just finished up our holiday in the States.

Yesterday (Friday 12th October), we were waiting in Los Angeles Airport (LAX) for a 7.15pm flight to Heathrow. I'm sitting there reading a Stephen King book. I get a bit hungry, and me and our mates Emma and Wayne get up and start walking to the nearest food place in LAX near Gate 104. The missus and our other mate Gary are still sitting over by the bags and that, so no-one nicks our seats. About halfway to the food place, I see a fella wearing a gold crown and a red suit walking along, and a couple of girls walking past him say "Hey, Flavor Flaaaaaav!!" For a second or so I thought 'is that really Flavor Flav, or are those girls taking the piss because the guy is trying to look like him?"

But then the guy in the crown half turns, and says "Yeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhh, wooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd," and laughs like this: "hch hch hch hch hch", and I think "fucking hell, it's Flavor Flav!" So I turn round and run back to the bags and grab my camera, and get the missus to come up with me to see if I can grab a picture with the great man.

We walk into the food place (where we were headed anyway), and I end up standing directly behind him in the queue, waiting to get some food. He's not got a bodyguard, and entourage or anything, it's just him standing about waiting for some food.

I should point out here that he's wearing a gold crown, a rood hood, a red suit with loads of sayings printed on it like "Beam Me Up" and so on, he's got a watch on that's got a face nearly as big as the bottom of a mug crusted with gold and gems, a chain that reaches his knees (and kept banging against the counter whenever he leant forward), his gold teeth, and his clock. The man stands out! Everyone is looking over at him, and people are saying "Ah yeah, Flavor!" and all that. All the girls are looking over as well, and he's grinning at em.

I tap him on the shoulder and say "Scuse me, are you Flavor Flav?" and he turns round and says "Hch hch hch hch, yeeeeeaaaaahhhh, I'm Flavor Flav man," and shakes my hand. I start getting all flustered and I say "Man, you're a fucking legend, I've been listening to you since fucking 'Yo Bum Rush The Show', you're a fucking LEGEND in England mate!" and then he starts smiling even more and pulls me into this shoulder touching hug type thing, laughing like "hch hch hch hch hch", and he says "Nah man, YOU'RE the legend, it's a pleasure meeting you man, hch hch hch hch hch".

I then say "Can I grab a picture with you?" He goes "Yeah man, no problem." Then the missus pulls out the camera, and I get a picture with him shaking my hand and standing close and that. (I'll post it up in a bit). Then I ask him how the TV show's going, he says it's in the third season, it's going well. So I say "Where are you off to then?" He starts laughing again and says "Hch hch hch hch, well, umm, I'm taking care of some BIZness, hch hch hch, I'm going to, umm, (and he looks about and says this out the side of his mouth like a whisper) France". So I ask him "What are you doing in France then?" He goes "I'm, umm, taking care of some GIRL business, you know what I'm saying? Hch hch hch hch hch".

Then some other guy comes up and takes a picture of him and Flav together on his camera phone, and says about Flav's new single and how he's heard it on the radio and it's dope and all that (I didn't know he had a new one out!).

So then me and the missus are standing behind Flav for five minutes or so, waiting for the other people in line to order their food and for him to order HIS food. This guy behind me leans over and says "Who's that guy?" I say "It's Flavor Flav man, from Public Enemy!" Meanwhile, Flav stands there for ages waiting for the woman to serve him, all the time people are looking at him and some of em are stil caling out like "Hey Flav!" and he's looking back and saying "Yeah, what's up baby?" and all that.

The woman goes to serve him and says "Hey Flavor Flav, what you want?" He looks up at the menu and says "Ummm, I'll have eight hot dogs." She looks t him and says "EIGHT? Okay, eight," and he says "Nah, just kidding baby, hch hch hch hch, two hot dogs..." and then orders his food.

He gets to the end of the line and is waiting to pay, and there's this little old lady at the end of the line waiting for something she's ordered. She obviously doesn't know who he is, and she looks him up and down and says "Are you dressed up like that for Halloween or something honey?" He stops, looks down at her and says "Baby, this is as real as it gets. Hch hch hch hch hch hch" and laughs.

So, we get our food and go out, Flav is sitting down at a table with some girls who are all giggly and that, and he's eating and generally being himself. We go back and sit down, and I start telling Gary about it. Then I keep an eye out, cos I figure he'll have to come past again to get to his plane, if he's going to France. Suddenly, he comes out of the food place, and starts walking up and down the gate area, striding back and forth saying "Woooorrrrrrrrrrrrd!" People start saying "Hey Flav!" and he's calling back to em and that. Then he goes back to the food place, presumably to keep eating. He does this another couple of times, then he goes.

LEGEND! YYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH BOOOOOOYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

That made my day! hahahahahahahaahahahahahahaha