Flavor Flav claims he got the boot from hanging out in the Backstreet Boys green room backstage at NBC's yearly Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting on Wednesday night.
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00:00Moving on to Flavor Flav, who actually was involved in an incident not far from where Brian Thompson,
00:06in fact, just a couple of blocks from where Brian Thompson was murdered.
00:10The Rockefeller tree had their lighting ceremony last night,
00:15and they had the Backstreet Boys performing, Jennifer Hudson, and Flavor Flav went down
00:19to visit with his friends, both Jennifer Hudson and the Backstreet Boys, and to see the tree lighting.
00:24And he says he ended up getting booted out of there that NBC security
00:29gave him the boot from the Backstreet Boys' dressing room.
00:33Yeah, and that's odd. Now, I will say this, that I do know there was heavy security there last night.
00:40Heavy security because of what happened in the morning.
00:43However, it's not like you don't know who Flavor Flav is.
00:47Right.
00:48I mean, it is hard to not know who Flavor Flav is.
00:51Exactly.
00:51And it's odd.
00:52Especially in New York.
00:53Yeah, and he felt it was super odd, too, because he's like, all I do is try to spread joy to people.
00:58And he even says, like, NBC knows that because of everything I did for the Olympics.
01:03Remember, he went out to Paris, and he was there for the girls' water polo team.
01:07Like, so he's a huge figure on social media and on TV.
01:11So he was surprised, and he even said that when he was being kicked out,
01:15they asked him to do, like, social videos as well.
01:18So he was like, what's going on here?
01:20Do you want me gone, or do you want to highlight me?
01:22Which one is it?
01:23The weird thing, too, is, if he was with the Backstreet Boys, which I thought he—
01:29But he was in a—they might have been out there already.
01:32And maybe he was back there by himself.
01:34See, I thought he was with the Backstreet Boys, which made me wonder,
01:36why didn't they just say, hey, leave him alone?
01:38He's talking to us.
01:39It is strange.
01:40But he kind of—he didn't walk back the incident.
01:43He says that's what happened.
01:44But he did delete the post that he put up last night.
01:47And actually just a few minutes ago, he said,
01:51my post created headlines that takes away from the incredible performances
01:56and everyone's hard work.
01:57Jennifer Hudson crushed it.
01:58That's my girl.
01:59I stayed and watched the Backstreet Boys from stage just as it started to snow.
02:03And I got to say that Howie D is one of the nicest guys in the music industry.
02:07Real good people, you know?
02:09And if you don't catch us on the front street, catch us on the back street.
02:12He's always so gracious.
02:13Turn it positive.
02:14He always is so gracious.
02:16But it is just weird to me.
02:18Weird to me.