{"id":118101,"date":"2024-07-24T15:01:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/24\/king-swiftie-flavor-flav-claims-taylor-swift-gave-him-a-special-shout-out-from-the-stage\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T15:01:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:01:40","slug":"king-swiftie-flavor-flav-claims-taylor-swift-gave-him-a-special-shout-out-from-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/07\/24\/king-swiftie-flavor-flav-claims-taylor-swift-gave-him-a-special-shout-out-from-the-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;King Swiftie&#8221; Flavor Flav claims Taylor Swift gave him a special shout-out from the stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-24\/getty_flavaflavandtaylorswift_061223.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for iHeartRadio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Public Enemy<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Flavor Flav<\/strong> has a side career as a <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong> fan who&#8217;s so devoted that he&#8217;s been dubbed King Swiftie by fellow fans. The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer was in Hamburg, Germany, on\u00a0Tuesday to attend the first of two Eras Tour shows in that city, and now he&#8217;s boasting that Taylor shouted him out from the stage.<\/p>\n<p>On social platform X, Flav <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FlavorFlav\/status\/1815895913493131378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>posted<\/strong><\/a> a video of Taylor onstage, which he says shows her pointing at him and shouting &#8220;Flavor Flav!&#8221; He captioned it, &#8220;<span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">It\u2019s the guy from Public Enemy also known as KING SWIFTIE Coming straight to Germany to see me,!!! Shout out back to <\/span><span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@taylorswift13<\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\">@taylornation13<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"> and her team and family for having me!!! &#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">He also posted plenty of photos and videos of the show on his Instagram Story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Earlier this year, Flav told the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/story\/2024-02-09\/column-travis-taylor-super-bowl-day-one-in-vegas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><strong>Los Angeles Times<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">that he saw Taylor at the Grammys and told her of his fandom. &#8220;<\/span>I said, \u2018You know they call me King Swiftie?\u2019 She said, \u2018I know!\u2019 Yo, when I heard her say that, that was huge to me,\u201d the rapper said.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor&#8217;s\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0show in Hamburg took place in the pouring rain, which delighted the singer. According to<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2024\/07\/23\/fans-drop-everything-meet-taylor-swift-in-pouring-rain-at-hamburg-show\/74449283007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>USA Today<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> she told the crowd, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve heard this about us, but here on the Eras Tour we absolutely adore a rain show. I think a rain show only chooses a crowd that is completely worthy and ready to party with us all night in the rain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images for iHeartRadio Public Enemy&#8216;s Flavor Flav has a side career as a Taylor Swift fan who&#8217;s so devoted that he&#8217;s been dubbed King Swiftie by fellow fans. 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