Watch Flavor Flav Ring the New York Stock Exchange’s Closing Bell & Send the Gavel Flying Into Crowd

the Public Enemy rapper joined the US Women's Water Polo team he sponsored at the 2024 Summer Olympics Flav Flav Rings the closing bell on Wall Street in conjunction with the women's Olympic water polo team on September 9th 2024 in New York City Flavor Flav knows how to work his way around a clock but maybe don't let him get a gavl in his hands the lesson was learned when the Public Enemy rapper joined US Women's Water Polo team goalie Ashley Johnson at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday September 9th that's when Flav got a bit overzealous with the gavl when attempting to ring the closing bell which saw him lose control of the hammer and accidentally send it into the crowd flever FLV they said it was good luck if I hit it hard he captioned his Instagram post fans hit the rapper with jokes in his comment section after he nearly decked an onlooker with the gavl the 65-year-old hadn't had the opportunity to be at the NYSC in his career and he basked in the honor after watching it on television all these years this means the world to me right now to be here at the stock exchange Flav added the only time I ever seen it was on TV now I get to be here part of it Flavor Flav signed a 5-year sponsorship deal with the US Women's and men's water polo teams for whom he served as the hype man at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris his sponsorship came with a $1,000 check to each player and a cruise voyage for the women's team it's a busy week running around the Big Apple for Flav after stops at the US Open tennis championship and the NYSC the New York native is slated to appear at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday September 11