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Flavor Flav

Hip hop
Hip hop

Flavor Flav is a Hip hop act. Their sound grew out of Chuck D, DJ Tomekk, Grandmaster Flash, MC Hammer and De La Soul. Those roots explain a lot about how Flavor Flav arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as C.L. Smooth, Whistle, MC Serch, Lordz of Brooklyn and Down South, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into DJ Tomekk, Nigo, Afrob, Taking Back Sunday and Dee Snider, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 19 connections around Flavor Flav, reaching back through Chuck D and forward to DJ Tomekk. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Flavor FlavChuck DDJ TomekkGrandmaster FlashMC HammerDe La SoulPapa's Got a Brand N…DJ TomekkNigoAfrobTaking Back SundayDee SniderElton JohnFatman ScoopC.L. SmoothWhistleMC SerchLordz of BrooklynDown SouthKrumbsnatcha

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Flavor Flav connections

Flavor Flav grew out of Chuck D, DJ Tomekk, Grandmaster Flash and MC Hammer, shares an orbit with C.L. Smooth, Whistle, MC Serch and Lordz of Brooklyn, went on to shape DJ Tomekk, Nigo, Afrob and Taking Back Sunday. 19 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

Who influenced Flavor Flav

Roots6

Sounds and acts that shaped Flavor Flav.

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Kindred6

Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with Flavor Flav.

Bands Flavor Flav shaped

Legacy7

Where the influence of Flavor Flav travelled next.

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