Taste Flav Hugs ‘Icon’ Paul Simon in ‘Dream-Come-True’ Assembly

Taste Flav is checking one other superstar run-in off his bucket record!

The Public Enemy rapper, 65, shared a video to X (previously Twitter) on Thursday, Sept. 12, documenting his heartwarming assembly with Paul Simon — somebody he stated he is been listening to since he was a toddler.

Within the footage taken at a New York Yankees sport this week, Flav might be seen strolling as much as the 82-year-old singer-songwriter because the pair shared a giant hug and held one another’s shoulders whereas attending to know each other.

“Oh my God, that is superb,” Flav, wearing a Yankees jersey and cap, stated whereas hugging Simon. “Oh man. That is loopy.”

After Simon requested the MC if “you guys” — seemingly referring to Public Enemy — have been from Brooklyn, Flav clarified that he is from Lengthy Island, earlier than bowing all the way down to Simon and holding his arms. “Ever since I used to be a child, bro,” Flav stated, as Simon touched his face. “All the time been a giant fan.”

“This can be a dream come true assembly you,” he added on the finish of the clip, earlier than the duo received to speaking concerning the Olympics.

Flav additionally uploaded a photograph with Simon, taken after he let the two-time Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame inductee attempt on his white sun shades. “Hi there Paul Simon, my previous pal,,, My Lengthy Misplaced Pal, You Can Name Me Al and naturally you may put on my sun shades!!!” Flav wrote.

“Such an honor to satisfy this icon and thank him for all the pieces he’s achieved for world music.”

Flav posted the second on Instagram, as properly, the place he revealed that Simon advised him, ‘Right here, let me put on your glasses.’

“WOOWWW,!!! What an honor to satisfy this icon and thank him for all the pieces he has achieved for music and world music,” he reiterated. “I can’t wait to come back again and go to a Yankees sport WITH him.”

Simon reposted the sentiment on his personal Instagram Story, alongside the message, “Nice time operating into @flavorflavofficial.”

Flav has rubbed shoulders with fairly a couple of new mates in current months, with headline-making interactions involving Man Fieri, First Woman Jill Biden, Billie Eilish, Bruce Springsteen and naturally, Taylor Swift.

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Earlier this week, the Public Enemy MC introduced on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards — the place he not solely handed Swift and Submit Malone their Moonman for greatest collaboration, but in addition shocked Olympian Jordan Chiles along with her very personal bronze clock necklace after she was stripped of her bronze medal following the gymnastics ground train closing in August. “I received you one thing that they cannot take away from you,” Flav stated on the time, bestowing the timepiece on Chiles, 23.

“And guess what else, too,” Flav later added. “I received your prize cash, too. I received that for you. I received that for you. I received your prize cash for you. I simply needed to shock you with that. I did not need to say nothing to you backstage.”

“However Jordan, you probably did your factor. Congratulations. You deserve all the pieces.”