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Flavor Flav chicken franchise expanding?

Published Wednesday, Apr 13 2011, 16:41 BST | By Justin Harp | Add comment

Flavor Flav is reportedly close to inking a deal to expand his fried chicken franchise into Las Vegas.

The former Flavor of Love star - real name William Drayton Jr - recently met with executives from the Riviera Casino to discuss opening up a new Flav's Fried Chicken inside the hotel.

A deal has not yet been officially announced, but sources tell TMZ that an agreement will likely be reached pending the settlement of a sudden dispute in the negotiations.

The possible expansion into Las Vegas would mean that Flav would be opening at a second location mere months after Flav's Fried Chicken debuted in his business partner Nick Cimino's hometown of Clinton, Iowa.

The rapper's Public Enemy bandmate Chuck D backed the operation earlier this year by publicly praising Flav for pushing a product aimed at the African-American community.

He wrote on his official Twitter page: "I give FLAV credit I rather him sell something most people EAT ..like why does Popeye Bojangles and The Colonel get automatic blackfolk? (sic)"

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