Tupac Shakur Stopped Flavor Flav From Committing A ‘Murk’
Tupac Shakur was a New York rapper before he headed west, and if you were coming up in the New York scene in the ’80s, Public Enemy was the rap royalty deserving of respect. This photo, taken backstage at the 1989 American Music Awards, shows a teenaged ‘Pac hanging out with Flavor Flav, Public Enemy’s resident wild man. Many years later, Flav shared a story from the same time period, about how Shakur prevented him from committing murder (or “murk” in Flav slang). “Tupac was 17 or 18 years old when he stopped me from hitting this guy over the head with a fire extinguisher,” Flav said. “If I had hit this guy over the head, the whole tour would have had to go home, I would have gone to jail, I might not be sitting here talking to you today. So I really got to thank God for Tupac stopping me from committing a murk.”