Public Enemy News

(9/27/02, 1 p.m. ET) -- Seminal hip-hop activists Public Enemy have already completed seven dates of their current national tour, which also features Dilated Peoples and Blackalicious as opening acts. However, Public Enemy is performing without the help of charismatic hype man and part-time rapper, Flavor Flav.

Flavor Flav is presently incarcerated on New York's Riker's Island for violating his parole by failing to appear at several mandatory probation meetings stemming from an incident when the rapper was arrested for driving with a suspended license. Flavor Flav was taken into custody when he appeared in court to pay fines for an unrelated traffic matter.

Group frontman Chuck D issued the following statement explaining why Public Enemy chose to move forward with the tour without Flavor Flav, "We couldn't turn our backs on our fans, so we felt this was the best thing to do." Public Enemy is touring in support of its latest album, Revolverlution.

Remaining Public Enemy/Dilated Peoples/Blackalicious tour dates (subject to change):

September 27 - Royal Oak, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre

September 28 - Milwaukee, WI - The Rave

September 29 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's

September 30 - Chicago, IL - House Of Blues

October 2 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre

October 3 - Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theatre

October 4 - Scottsdale, AZ - Cajun House

October 5 - Devore, CA - Glen Helen Blockbuster Pavilion

October 6 - Solana Beach, CA - Belly Up Tavern

October 7 - West Hollywood, CA - House Of Blues

October 9 - Anaheim, CA - House Of Blues

October 11 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore

-- Yves Erwin Salomon, New York

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