Dukes Mayo Celebrity Mascot

[HopHead]

Our tailgate group had a group text going on during the game including a couple members that made the trip to NC. Late in the second quarter someone asked who they thought the celebrity mascot would be. My buddy sitting next to me jokingly said “I think it’ll be Flavor Flav“. When it was finally revealed. We almost fell on the floor in shock that he guessed it correctly.

 

[cheeseheadgophfan]

Sorry but I am the one guy that someone has to tell me who Flav is.

Google Public Enemy.

 

[Ski-U-Ham]

Flava Flav also had the VH1 show Strange Love with Bridgette Nielsen. There is a fair amount of shame in myself when I admit I watched it back in the day

 

[Ope3]

Sorry but I am the one guy that someone has to tell me who Flav is.

One of the most essential rap/hip-hop songs ever was Public Enemy's Fight the Power. It was also part of Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing".


I've never really been into that genre, but I do recognize this was pretty ground breaking and understand the appeal as well as commercial success.

 

[IceBoxGopher]

Yeah Public Enemy was one of the big influences for the rap/hip hop genre in the 80s alongside Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash, Big Daddy Kane, Ice T and the like. Kind of helped lay the groundwork during that decade.

 

[State of Football]

A lot of positive responses from PJ’s response and playing up the Mayo bath. Even Barreiro noted this as a positive for recruiting.

 

[STPGopher]

Should have had him say I want you to do the Gopher... BTW IIRC one of his sons played at Penn State.

 

[Donovan]

Yeah Public Enemy was one of the big influences for the rap/hip hop genre in the 80s alongside Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash, Big Daddy Kane, Ice T and the like. Kind of helped lay the groundwork during that decade.

Good memories. During high school years, I stumbled into early rap in 1983 when I heard Grand Master Flash's "The Message." Completely blew me away, never heard anything like it. That led to buying everything from Grand Master Flash and Furious Five, Whodini, Run-DMC, The Fat Boys, etc.. Another song that was a game changer for me was "The Show" by Doug E Fresh and Slick Rick. Once N.W.A. and Public Enemy hit, and rap music shifted into more gangsta style, I lost interest.

For the young folks on hear that like rap and hip hop, @IceBoxGopher and myself have given you some old school artists to checkout to hear the pioneers.

 

[STPGopher]

Yeah Public Enemy was one of the big influences for the rap/hip hop genre in the 80s alongside Kurtis Blow, Grandmaster Flash, Big Daddy Kane, Ice T and the like. Kind of helped lay the groundwork during that decade.

One could argue that Kurtis Blow and Grandmaster Flash go back to the late 70's, but overall this is correct. It was a transition era in "popular" music. Disco was waning giving birth to house music and hip hop / rap.

 

[Dave H]

He couldn't wait to run over to him and do the "yeaaaah boooy".

Well obviously that was just so he could make it all about him...just like the Mayo Bath!