Video: Watch rapper Flavor Flav perform the national anthem at the Hawks-Bucks game Sunday

Rapper Flavor Flav, 64, sang the national anthem at the Milwaukee Bucks game against the Atlanta Hawks Sunday night. The performance received mixed reviews, with some loving it and others comparing it to Fergie’s rendition at the 2018 NBA All-Star Game.

However, Flavor Flav responded positively to the reactions on X. He said in a post on Sunday, “The anthem was a long time bucket list item,,, that was fun!”

“I can’t live my life worried about what people might say about me. I won’t let that stop me from trying new things and doing things I wanna do. Some people might not like that. But a sure failure is if you stop trying.”

William Jonathan Drayton Jr., known by his stage name Flavor Flav, came into the music scene in the late 1980s. He was raised on Long Island, New York, and co-founded the hip-hop group Public Enemy, per IMDb.

Some of Flav’s top hits are “Fight The Power” and “Shake Your Booty.” Public Enemy is known for its politically charged lyrics, and Flav was removed from the group after disagreeing with the group’s endorsement of Bernie Sanders, per USA Today.

Public Enemy was admitted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 as one of the most important groups to the development of hip-hop. Rolling Stones journalist Alan Light wrote the group’s entry to the Hall of Fame, saying, “At the top of its game, PE redefined not just what a rap group could accomplish, but also the very role pop musicians could play in contemporary culture.”

He continued, “Lyrically, sonically, politically, onstage, on the news — never before had musicians been considered ‘radical’ across so many different platforms.”