Flavor Flav is once again stepping up to support female athletes at the 2024 Olympics, this time covering rent for 24-year-old discus thrower Veronica Fraley.
The Public Enemy rapper’s act of goodwill came directly in response to a tweet from the track and field competitor, who attends Vanderbilt University. “I compete in the Olympic Games TOMORROW and can’t even pay my rent 😒,” she wrote Thursday (Aug. 1). “my school only sent about 75% of my rent while they pay football players (who haven’t won anything 😂) enough to buy new cars and houses 👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾”
Within a few hours, Flav saw her post and offered to help. “I gotchu,,, DM me and I’ll send payment TODAY so you don’t have to worry bout it TOMORROW,” he replied. “and imma be rooting for ya tomorrow LETZ GO,!!!”
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian — who is married to Olympic champion Serena Williams — then offered to “split it with Flav.” He then posted a screenshot of his Venmo transaction of $7,760 sent to Fraley under the subject line, “‘MURICA.”
The hip-hop star confirmed in a comment to a fan that his donation covered Fraley’s rent this month, while Ohanian’s paid off her costs for the rest of the year. “Man of my word,!!!” he added in another post. “This is what I been saying and promoting with water polo,,, I can’t fix everything on my own,,, but right now I am.”
Fraley is just the latest Olympic athlete the “Harder Than You Think” musician has assisted this year. Flav is currently in Paris cheering on the women’s water polo team, whom he started sponsoring in May after coach Maggie Steffens called for support on social media. So far, he’s gifted each team member $1,000 and a Virgin Voyage cruise.
Flav also represented the team at a press conference on the first day of the 2024 Games July 26. The next day, he personally greeted Dr. Jill Biden at Team USA’s water polo match against Greece, telling the first lady, “These girls are my girls, they work hard … They got three back-to-back gold medals. I’m just trying to cheer them on to get that No. 4.”
See Flav and Fraley’s exchange play out below.