- For six years, Flavor Flav spent up to $2,600 a day on drugs.
- There was a time that I was spending $2,400 to $2,600 a day”.
- He was his “greatest customer,” Flav was also a drug dealer.
The 63-year-old founding member of Public Enemy, who marked two years of recovery in October, has revealed how, during the height of his addiction, he spent more than $5.6 million over a six-year period.
He said: “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.”
Although he acknowledged that he was his “greatest customer,” Flav was also a drug dealer.
He explained: “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 the wrong things with my money.”
The ‘Harder Than You Think’ hitmaker admitted it was “hard as hell” to ditch drugs, but he did so in 2020 and remains sober.
He told the ‘Off the Record with DJ Akademiks’ podcast: “I guess God wanted me to live. And he knows that I’m a mouthpiece to the world.
“So, I feel that God let me live through that, so that way, I could teach people about the mistakes that I made. And hopefully, they won’t make them later on in life.
“Drugs are easy to get on, and they’re hard as hell to get off of.
“Back in the days, when we used to make drug records, we used to talk about selling drugs.
“Talking about who can make the most money off drugs, who’s balling off selling drugs. It was a competition thing to all of the hustlers.
“Now today’s music, we’re talking about doing drugs. So, there’s a big change within the music … It’s giving younger kids the wrong idea.”
When Flav narrowly avoided death after a massive boulder smashed his car in December 2021, he also had someone watching over him.
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