Taste Flav will get his personal Olympics-themed Funko POP! doll
Public Enemy’s Taste Flav has been immortalised along with his personal Olympics-themed Funko POP! doll.
The hip-hop legend’s involvement with the US Olympics group is being celebrated with the limited-edition merchandise that may solely be obtainable till August 16.
Named ‘POP: Group USA USAWP Taste Flav’, orders could be positioned this week, with delivery estimated in December. Every sale will embody a donation to Group USA’s Water Polo fund. You should purchase yours here.
He turns into the newest music determine to obtain the honour, following on from the likes of Ice Spice, The Remedy, Slipknot, Liam and Noel Gallagher, The White Stripes, Metallica, Put up Malone and the late Eddie Van Halen.
Hype man for the USA followers! You needed him, so right here he’s: POP! Group USA USAWP Taste Flav is dwell for pre-order – and to have a good time a donation shall be made to Group USA – USA Water Polo. So dive in and present your assist! https://t.co/2hhi8BJwn3 #FunkoPOP #TeamUSA #FlavorFlav pic.twitter.com/G36tDu2pIl
— Funko (@OriginalFunko) August 9, 2024
Taste Flav has been closely concerned within the Paris Olympics, changing into one of many shock viral hits of the video games because the “official hype man” for the US ladies’s water polo group.
“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 already know what I’m saying? However I all the time needed to see what it felt like being there.”
Flav acquired on board with the water polo group in Might when group captain Maggie Steffens put out a name for monetary assist. The hip-hop icon responded, writing: “As a woman 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 cope with the US ladies’s and males’s water polo groups, vowing to “elevate the visibility and pleasure surrounding water polo in the US”.
See a few of Taste Flav’s antics, together with with Spike Lee and Dr. Jill Biden, right here.
Flav’s eclectic 2024 has already seen him out himself as a Swiftie, announce a brand new actuality present the place he’ll earn his highschool diploma, and order a whole crimson lobster menu to save lots of a seafood restaurant.