Yeaaaaaahhhhhhhh Boyyyyyyyyy! You know what time it is. It's the right time for the man who co-founded pioneering rap group Public Enemy and is currently star of VH1's top-rated Flavor of Love series. The one and only Flavor Flav will release his self-titled first-ever solo album on Oct. 31, which should make for an even scarier Halloween than usual. The album will be on his own Draytown Records, distributed by leading indie North Carolina's Redeye Distribution.

"I got some things off my chest, but not all," explains Flav about the long-awaited disc, which launches with the patented rock-rap of the first single, "Flavor Man." "I doubt I will ever do another one, though. What I'm gonna do is make this one a collector's item. My first and only solo album, ever."

If that's the case, Flavor Flav makes a case for the rapper as one of history's most underrated. The Roosevelt, L.I.-born hip-hop icon (real name: William Jonathan Drayton Jr.) plays virtually all the instruments, co-writes some of the music and lyrics as well as co-produces with collaborators like Smooth B. and Collition. After several failed solo attempts, this is the one Flavor Flav's fans have been waiting for more than a decade.

"The only thing I'm sorry about is it didn't come sooner," says Flav. "I think it's time I give it to 'em for real."

Flav even works out on some surprising R&B material, including the opening "Let It Show" and "Two Wrongz (Don't Make a Right)," one he's particularly proud of.

"That's an ass-kicking banger right there," he says. "I worked hard on that one. Not only that, I'm saying some, real true positive stuff in there, too. Once they get used to it, I think people can accept me singing."

Flav first met Chuck D while rapping at Adelphi University under the name MC DJ Flavor. The two formed Public Enemy with DJ Terminator X and Professor Griff to release their debut Yo! Bum Rush the Show in 1987, '88's It Takes a Nation of Millions... and '90's Fear of a Black Planet. Flavor took center stage on such classic PE numbers as "Too Much Posse," "Cold Lampin' With Flavor" and "911 is a Joke," as well as the 1998 title song to Spike Lee's He Got Game.

He went on to appear in the third season of The Surreal Life on VH1 in 2004, then on two subsequent spinoffs in Strange Love and Flavor of Love, which set a ratings record for the channel with its debut in August '06, and continues setting records as the highest rated show on the network.

Currently planning to record a new Public Enemy album with Chuck D, Flavor Flav plans on a mini-tour of the U.S., and take it from there.

"Flav is beyond limits," he says. "I'm just gonna keep going and going and going and going and going until I can't go no more."

Catch Flavor Flav now. Because you know what time it is...

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