Taste Flav goes viral as official ‘hype man’ for USA water polo group at Paris Olympics
With the 2024 Paris Olympics properly below means, one of many stunning viral hits of the Video games thus far is Taste Flav, who has change into the US water polo group’s official hype man.
The Public Enemy co-founder has been making waves in France, giving motivational speeches to the US group and bringing the eye of the skin world to one of many Olympics’ lesser-known sports activities.
“That is fairly an expertise for me proper now, you understand, as a result of the one time I’ve ever seen the Olympics was on TV,” Flav stated about his new function. “You recognize what I’m saying? However I all the time wished to see what it felt like being there.”
Flav acquired on board with the water polo group in Could when group captain Maggie Steffens put out a name for monetary help. The hip-hop icon responded, writing: “As a lady dad and supporter of all ladies’s sports activities – imma personally sponsor you my woman, no matter you want. And imma sponsor the entire group.”
He then signed a five-year sponsorship take care of the US ladies’s and males’s water polo groups, vowing to “elevate the visibility and pleasure surrounding water polo in the USA”.
See a few of Taste Flav’s antics, together with with Spike Lee and Dr. Jill Biden, beneath:
Took my brother Spike Lee to satisfy my ladies of @USAWP
We Bought Recreation
They Bought Recreation
She Bought Recreation
YEAH BOOYYYEEE,!!! #Olympics pic.twitter.com/0s3Sn2oAgT— FLAVOR FLAV (@FlavorFlav) July 29, 2024
FLAVOR FLAV reporting for Olympics protection obligation 🫡 I will be on #OlympicHighlights with @KevinHart4real and @kenanthompson on @Peacock as we speak! pic.twitter.com/hj1Rby05Rg
— FLAVOR FLAV (@FlavorFlav) July 30, 2024
Water Polo is HARDER THAN YOU THINK,!!!@MrChuckD @PublicEnemyFTP pic.twitter.com/G5tET717VC
— FLAVOR FLAV (@FlavorFlav) July 31, 2024
SO PROUD of my ladies as we speak,!!! They received 15-6,,, we within the combine,!!
Simply wished to shout out each @dawnstaley and @DrBiden @FLOTUS for coming by todays Girls’s Water Polo sport,,, we admire the help and a focus they getting cuz these champions deserve it 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾#Olympics pic.twitter.com/tu7LzbBlsd
— FLAVOR FLAV (@FlavorFlav) July 27, 2024
What a tremendous method to give again to extraordinary athletes! After listening to of what number of Olympians work 2-3 jobs to attain their desires, Taste Flav of Public Enemy jumped in to help, changing into the hype man & sponsor for Crew USA’s Girls’s Water Polo Crew! 👏🏿
🎥: Newsweek/TikTok pic.twitter.com/CXSCPcvavj— Ben Crump (@AttorneyCrump) July 29, 2024
He’s removed from the one US music star to make an impression on the Paris Video games.
The US Olympic group have been launched in a promotional video firstly of the Video games by Beyoncé. Wearing a USA-branded white bodysuit, blue cowboy hat and white cowboy boots – in reference to her present nation period together with her new album ‘Cowboy Carter’ – Queen Bey overestimated a number of high-profile athletes, together with Biles, sprinters Sha’Carri Richardson and Noah Lyles and swimmers Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky. The video was soundtracked by her latest single ‘YA YA’.
“Get a take a look at America, y’all,” Beyoncé stated within the video. “These hopes and desires, these superstars that signify us. The folks of this massive, daring, lovely, sophisticated nation. All rooting collectively for them.”
She added: “That pleasure and that pleasure? That’s what will get me about this group. And that’s what makes me imagine on this group. And that’s why I can’t wait to see what they pull off over these subsequent 16 days. America, give it up for Crew U.S.A., the easiest of who we’re. What a imaginative and prescient to behold. What a group to imagine in. What an evening to have fun.”
The Paris Olympics kicked off on Friday (July 26) with a divisive opening ceremony that included performances from a showstopping Celine Dion, a pre-recorded Girl Gaga and a history-making Gojira.
Since then, Taylor Swift has reacted to her observe ‘…Prepared For It?’ being utilized in an NBC advert for the Video games. “So able to scream at my TV cheering for these athletes,” she wrote.
Simone Biles’ ladies’s gymnastics group additionally celebrated their creative group all-around occasion gold by lip-syncing to Kanye West’s well-known 2005 Grammy speech.
Snoop Dogg, in the meantime, has been making his presence felt on the Video games, carrying the torch by means of Paris and taking swimming classes from the 23-time gold medallist Michael Phelps.
Taste Flav, in the meantime, has outed himself as a Swiftie this yr, introduced a brand new actuality present the place he’ll earn his highschool diploma, and ordered a whole crimson lobster menu to save lots of a seafood restaurant.