Chuck D. refuses to allow Flavor Flav’s new lawsuit to make him public enemy number one in the eyes of their fans. That’s why he’s just spoken out to respond to his P.E. group member’s lawsuit against him and his reply had a lot of poise, with a side of shade.

WHY FLAVOR FLAV IS SUING

Many of you may recall our previous report, revealing that Flav’s lawsuit claimed that despite the long standing agreement he and Chuck D. have to split profits from their music, merchandising, and live shows, Chuck is still getting paid for all of that, but Flav’ says he hasn’t seen a royalty check in years.

CHUCK D.’S RESPONSE

Well, here’s Chuck D.’s response:

Via TMZ– Chuck D responded to Flav’s lawsuit, telling us … “Flav HAS HIS rights, but took a wrong road on this.” The rap legend says his P.E. bandmate is just pissed about a third party merchandiser and the way the record biz now works. […] Still, Chuck made it clear … “We will be [together] on a future stage.” He also thinks Flav “will again be embarrassed admitting on stage about the way it spun out. It’s always this way with him.” He added he’s ready and willing to address Flav’s concerns in the future, but right now he just hopes his partner “will be woke in rehearsal studio and paying attention to the work we and all the members do worldwide.”

At least those brothas will be on stage together soon…that is IF, like Chuck D. implied, Flav’ decides to stay awake and be on point for rehearsals…that was the dash of shade I was previously referring to.

Meanwhile, Flavor Flav is probably somewhere reading Chuck D.’s response and yelling “Don’t Believe The Hype!” Okay, that was hella corny (LOL) but I couldn’t resist.