‘King Swiftie’ Flavor Flav Celebrates the Start of August With Taylor Swift Lyrics

Salt air and the rust on your door — Flavor Flav never needed anything more. Like countless other Swifties across the world, the Public Enemy rapper is celebrating the beginning of August in Taylor Swift style, posting one of her lyrics on his X account Friday (Aug. 1).

On the morning of the first day of the month, Flav simply wrote, “Canceled all my plans.”

Fellow fans of the pop superstar immediately picked up on the reference. “King Swiftie doing August role call,” one person replied, which Flav reshared.

The line comes from Swift’s fan-favorite Folklore song “August,” on which she sings in the climactic outro, “Remember when I pulled up and said, ‘Get in the car’/ And then canceled my plans just in case you’d call?”

Though diehard fans love all of the 14-time Grammy winner’s music, few tracks are as sacred to the fandom as “August.” In 2022, the song — one of three core parts of Swift’s famous Folklore love triangle — re-entered the charts a year after it was first released as fans flocked back to it at the beginning of August, and every year since, Swifties have rejoiced in the start of “August” season come the eighth month of each year.

Flav has been one of those Swifties ever since 2023, falling in love with the singer’s music after attending an Eras Tour show in Detroit. Now going by the nickname “King Swiftie,” the hip-hop star has gushed about his love for Swift multiple times.

“I’m listening to her music, and I’m like, ‘Yo, this girl is dope!’” he said on Hot 97’s Ebro in the Morning last year. “She’s writing a lot about experiences that she goes through in life, just like a Mary J. Blige.”

See Flav’s “August” post below.