Watch Flavor Flav Sing the Backstreet Boys & Rap With Jason Sudeikis at Charity Concert
Jason Sudeikis is now an honorary member of Public Enemy — and the same could be said about Flavor Flav regarding the Backstreet Boys.
At this year’s Thundergong! charity concert in Kansas City Saturday (Nov. 9) — an event hosted by the Ted Lasso star to benefit Steps of Faith — the rapper wowed the crowd with a smooth performance of “I Want It That Way” as well as teamed up with Sudeikis for an on-point performance of the hip-hop group’s “Bring the Noise.” In one video from the night posted by Flav Monday (Nov. 11), he and a group of friends take the stage to sing the 1999 smash.
Bopping up and down to the beat, the hip-hop star intently sings the boy band’s iconic lyrics: “Tell me why/ Ain’t nothin’ but a heartache/ Tell me why/ Ain’t nothing but a mistake.”
In other clips from the show, Flav and Sudeikis wear matching snapbacks on stage while bopping up and down to the intense beat of Public Enemy’s 1991 track. With the rapper getting the crowd fired up, Sudeikis impressively nailed every single lyric, spitting, “Never badder than bad cause the brother is madder than mad/ At the fact that’s corrupt as a senator/ Soul on a roll, but you treat it like soap on a rope/ ‘Cause the beats and the lines are so dope.”
“TURN IT UP,,, cuz we BROUGHT THE NOISE,!!! WOOWWW,” Flav wrote, sharing a video of the duet on Instagram. “Jason Sudeikis got down like that and was absolutely incredible,!!”
The next day, Flav and the comedian attended the Kansas City Chiefs game at Arrowhead Stadium — as did the hip-hop star’s friend Taylor Swift.
This year’s Thundergong! featured a number of other notable performances, including Weird Al Yankovic and Will Forte singing Chappell Roan’s “Hot to Go” for the crowd — choreography and all. At another point in the evening, Sudeikis and his kids — son Otis and daughter Daisy, whom he shares with former partner actress Olivia Wilde — joined him onstage to help scream the background vocals of Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever,” most of which the We’re the Millers star performed as a passionate solo.
Every year, Thundergong! raises money for Steps of Faith’s mission to provide for amputees in need of prosthetic care. Sudeikis — who organizes and hosts the annual event with the charity’s founder Billy Brimblecom Jr. — told Billboard in 2021 that he recruits many of his real-life friends to serve as guest performers each year: “Working at [Saturday Night Live] for 10 years, we had everybody coming through … What we’re looking for is someone we’re super excited about as fans, but also has like a vibe of our friends … It’s something you try to be discerning about because you want people coming in with the right heart space.”
Watch Flavor Flav perform “I Want It That Way” and rap with Sudeikis below.
Hannah Dailey
Billboard
