Flavor Flav has donated his iconic clock chain to Harvard University after the Public Enemy rapper spent the day meeting with students.
Flav visited the Ivy League institution on Tuesday (April 4), and at one point even led a table read of Emily Dickinson’s 1896 poem “A Clock Stopped,” before thematically tying the poem into some of his lyrics.
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Flav concluded the reading by handing off his legendary jewelry piece to Professors Henry Louis Gates and Tommie Shelby.
Check out footage of his Harvard visit below:
Dee-1, DJ Stretch Armstrong and Khaliah Ali, the former wife of late boxing legend Muhammad Ali, also stopped by Harvard, as well as Lupe Fiasco, who previously taught at the esteemed university before he was appointed an MLK Visiting Professor at MIT.
Lupe was most recently named a Saybrook Fellow at Yale University, marking the lauded lyricist’s latest honor in the world of higher education.
As for Flavor Flav, his stint at Harvard comes after he celebrated two years of sobriety. The 64-year-old shared the proud moment in a video posted to Instagram in October.
“Today is October 19,” he said. “And guess what? I am two years, no cigarettes. Two years, no alcohol. And you know what? I feel real good y’all, just to let you know. And I don’t care what nobody say, I look good y’all.”
Flav recently opened up about his addiction in an interview with Akademiks, revealing there was a time in his life when he spent over $2,000 a day on drugs.
“I kinda maintained myself very well while I was on that shit,” Flav said of his drug habit. “I kinda kept it hidden so a lot of people didn’t really know. They were trying to figure it out, ‘Yo, is he on something?’ Because I never let people know what I was doing. I started letting people know what I was doing when I was getting tired of being like that.”
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He continued: “There was a time that I was spending $2,400 to $2,600 a day for six years straight. You do the math. That’s how much I spent on drugs. I ain’t gonna lie. I sold a lot, but I was my best customer. I had a lot of money at the time too. I was just doing wrong things with my money. I guess God wanted me to live.”
Flav announced his first year of sobriety in 2021, posting a side-by-side comparison of his face before and after getting off drugs.
