What Should Flava Flav Name His PE Fund?

By Bess Levin

Thinking a few steps ahead here but based on a recent interview in which Flava Flav discussed getting into the restructuring business (starting with his chicken chain), it seems obvious that’s where he’s headed. Schwarzman, Kravis, Peltz? Watch your backs.

You haven’t had your own reality show since 2008. Any plans to get back on TV and start over sharing again?

I’m getting ready to do a reality show about my restaurant, FFC, Flav’s Fried Chicken. It’s gonna be the next Happy Days. It’ll be about what happens when I open my restaurant in the Riviera Hotel and Casino on the Sunset Strip in Las Vegas. Hopefully within the next two to three days we’ll close on that deal and then we can start shooting it.

Is this the same chicken restaurant that went out of business in Iowa a few months ago?

We closed it down. Here’s the thing with the food business: the only way to win is with consistency. And if you don’t have consistency, you won’t win the game. Things didn’t stay consistent, so I had to shut it down and restructure.

[Vanity Fair]

Comments (31)

  1. 1
    Posted by Anonymous | May 26, 2011 at 6:31 PM

    I feel ya brotha.

     - GM

  2. 2
    Posted by Anonymous | May 26, 2011 at 6:42 PM

    P.E.P.E. – Public Enemy, Private Equity

  3. 3
    Posted by El Tigre | May 26, 2011 at 6:43 PM

    Fear of a Blackstone Planet

  4. 4
    Posted by Nosmo King | May 26, 2011 at 6:43 PM

    PE Capital Partners

  5. 5
    Posted by Guest | May 26, 2011 at 6:43 PM

    chicken, its a helluva meal.

  6. 6
    Posted by The_price_is_wrong_bitch | May 26, 2011 at 6:43 PM

    2 and 20 Nigga Ltd.

  7. 7
    Posted by VonSloneker | May 26, 2011 at 6:50 PM

    NWA or course…Niggaz Want Alpha

  8. 8
    Posted by Flav | May 26, 2011 at 6:50 PM

    Cold Lampin’ Capital

  9. 9
    Posted by Dr. Rosenrose | May 26, 2011 at 6:51 PM

    Rerun’s Paradise Partners

  10. 10
    Posted by The Kudlow Army Faction | May 26, 2011 at 6:53 PM

    Flava Cash Money Partners LLP – Managing Partner William Jonathan Drayton Jr.

    contrary to popular beliefs, this entity will not be directly competing with Wu Tang Financial, as Wu Tang has a distinct fixed income focus.

  11. 11
    Posted by Guest | May 26, 2011 at 6:53 PM

    Whaas Up Booooy Capital Partners

  12. 12
    Posted by Guest | May 26, 2011 at 6:53 PM

    Whaas Up Booooy Capital Partners

  13. 13
    Posted by JR | May 26, 2011 at 6:55 PM

    Team him up with Lenny D. and Nick Cage. Three financial wizards covering the worlds of music, sports and film.

  14. 14
    Posted by Anonymous | May 26, 2011 at 6:59 PM

    Terminator X on the fryer, Chuck D front of the house

  15. 15
    Posted by VonSloneker | May 26, 2011 at 7:00 PM

    I’m lampin’, I’m lampin’…I’m cold, cold, lampin’

  16. 16
    Posted by Brian1284 | May 26, 2011 at 7:07 PM

    DBAG Expansion Capital Fund, wait that name is already taken.

  17. 17
    Posted by Oooooh Yeah! | May 26, 2011 at 7:13 PM

     First of the Month Fund.

  18. 18
    Posted by Deeeeez Nuuutz | May 26, 2011 at 7:15 PM

    Gimme Yo Capital

  19. 19
    Posted by Homosaurus | May 26, 2011 at 7:17 PM

    BlackRock…. Get it?

  20. 20
    Posted by Chuck D's Nuts | May 26, 2011 at 7:26 PM

    Yeeeeeaaah Boiiiiiiiii

  21. 21
    Posted by ExtraOrdinaryPopularDelusions | May 26, 2011 at 7:35 PM

    Oh, you went there.

    +1

  22. 22
    Posted by NakedShort | May 26, 2011 at 7:40 PM

    EBT Capital?

  23. 23
    Posted by Put_Option | May 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM

    $harpe Chedda LP

  24. 24
    Posted by Guest | May 26, 2011 at 8:18 PM

    How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul, LP

  25. 25
    Posted by ExtraOrdinaryPopularDelusions | May 26, 2011 at 8:21 PM

    Rock, Paper, Niggaz LP

    (Rock beats Niggaz
    Niggaz beats Paper
    Paper beats Rock)

  26. 26
    Posted by ExtraOrdinaryPopularDelusions | May 26, 2011 at 8:45 PM

    NFL (Niggaz Fucking Leveraged)

  27. 27
    Posted by LEH Quant | May 26, 2011 at 8:57 PM

    Dear idiot – it’s EBITDA. Before you pretend that you know anything about finance, please consult a book.

    -LEH Quant

  28. 28
    Posted by Guest | May 26, 2011 at 8:59 PM

    ReFried Chicken and PE. And have a drive through. Makes it easier when the SEC shows up.

  29. 29
    Posted by Manalyst | May 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM

    PIMPCO

  30. 30
    Posted by Hypocrite | May 27, 2011 at 7:53 PM

    Great, another one of your postings where you invite people to make stereotypical comments about African Americans. I wonder are you clueless, arrogant, or some combination of both. Also, when are we going to see this:

    In a series of IM’s

    to anothe trarder from 2003, Loeb compared Fairfax to “hitler
    himself” when the firm’s share price rebounded in
    the insurer’s share price. He also apparently wrote,

    “the
    odds are much greater of being strung up by a canadian Jew than a canadian
    schwarze.” Loeb, who is Jewish, used
    “schwarze,” a derogatory Yiddish word for a black person, to
    describe Watsa, who is of Indian ancestry.

    Read
    more:
    http://www.businessinsider.com/dan-loeb-fairfax-embarrassing-emails-adam-sender-2011-3#ixzz1NZeqSkzd

    I suppose you couldn’t talk about this because it would remove you from Loeb’s good graces? How hypocritical

  31. 31
    Posted by Chuck | August 13, 2011 at 6:08 AM

    Accelerated Losses Fund

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