Tattle: Flavor Flav crying fowl about his chicken biz

WE KNOW the restaurant business is tough, but Flavor Flav's Chicken in Iowa hasn't even been open for four months and already it's lost its Flavor.

Turns out the chicken is finger blingin' bad.

According to TMZ.com, Flav has pulled his name from the eatery and blamed his business partner for mismanagement.

Flav says the shoddy operation gave him "a bad reputation."

"I had a licensing agreement with Nick Cimino and that's all we had," Flav told TMZ. "It was his business to run from there and the business was not run right."

What was the slogan, "We do chicken wrong!"?

As TMZ previously reported, FFC employees claimed their payroll checks were bouncing, so it wasn't only the chicken that was rubbery. Cimino said the problem was "a credit-card glitch."

That wasn't the only glitch.

"Let me be straight up with you," Flav told TMZ. "I went up inside there on April 2 and I found potato salad that expired on Feb. 28. And it's then when I realized I can't do business with this man and I really hope no one ate those potatoes."

* In other rap news, while the musical art form has become bogged down in America by hits about money, jewels and hos, in Libya it's the soundtrack of a defiant generation.

As the Associated Press' Sebastian Abbot reported from the front, rebel forces are finding inspiration from a number of amateur rappers whose songs have helped define the revolution after decades of repressive rule by Moammar Gadhafi.

"Moammar, get out, get out, game over! I'm a big, big soldier!" sang 20-year-old Milad Faraway, who started the group Music Masters with his friend and neighbor, 22-year-old Mohammed Madani.

Rather than grabbing AK-47s and fighting Gadhafi's forces, Faraway and Madani stayed in Benghazi, the de facto capital of rebel-held eastern Libya, and picked up a microphone.

"Everyone has his own way of fighting and my weapon is art," said Faraway, a geology student, during a recent recording session in a small room on the fourth floor of an aging apartment building in downtown Benghazi.

Many of the songs that Music Masters and other groups have recorded in the past two months feature rapid-fire lyrics reminiscent of Eminem. The lyrics ridicule Gadhafi and lambaste him for his treatment of the country.

"Gadhafi, open your eyes wide and you will see that the Libyan people just broke through the fear barrier," sang Revolution Beat in their song "17 February," a reference to the "Day of Rage" when protesters took to the streets in several towns and clashed with security forces.

Roughly a dozen rap songs recorded since the start of the rebellion have been put on CDs with rebel-inspired album covers and are available for sale in downtown Benghazi.

Some of the songs mix Arabic and English, a testament to rap's origins in the U.S. When the rappers perform in public, which is rare, they wear baggy pants, T-shirts and baseball caps.

Said Mutaz al-Obeidi, of Revolution Beat: "Rap is more popular than rock and country among the young people in Libya because it expresses anger and frustration."

Tattbits

* Emma Watson is transferring from Brown University.

Her spokeswoman, Vanessa Davies, denied the 21-year-old "Harry Potter" actress was "bullied out" of Brown, saying there was no truth in reports by a number of online publications who cited classmates and "insiders."

Davies said Emma has decided to pursue a different course not offered at Brown.

She added that Emma "has absolutely loved her time at Brown" and made many good friends.

No word yet on her new school. Our money says Hogwarts.

* Lindsay Lohan was sent back to jail on Friday over her jewelry-store necklace "borrowing," and before there was even time for a cavity search, she was out again, released on $75,000 bail.

It was a déjà vu day for Lindsay, who was admonished by a judge - the fourth she's faced in nearly a year - who said she thought the actress had intentionally taken the $2,500 necklace and shown poor judgment in not trying to return it until police became involved.

Fortunately for Lindsay, the judge reduced the charge from a felony to a misdemeanor, paving the way for her speedy release.

The judge also sentenced Lindsay to almost 500 hours of community service, including time at the county morgue and 300 hours at a women's shelter. * According to court documents reported by TMZ.com, "16 and Pregnant's" Josh Smith says his twins' baby mama, Jennifer Del Rio, who allegedly punched him when he tried to break up with her, got pregnant just so she could be on the MTV "reality" show.

How long will it be until teenagers are getting arrested just so they can be on "Dog the Bounty Hunter"?

Or until "The Hunger Games" is a weekly series on ESPN?

Or until MTV gets a warning label?

In the court docs, Josh claims Jennifer is a "compulsive liar" who convinced Josh she was pregnant with his child (even though she wasn't) so he wouldn't wear a condom (and thus get her pregnant with his child).

Huh? So she compulsively lied and he compulsively got laid?

Josh explains: "She was giving me sonogram pictures . . . that she claimed was 'our baby' when in actually [sic] it was her friend's sonogram pictures she was copying. She lied to me and my parents for three months saying she was pregnant. She wanted so desperately to be on '16 and Pregnant.' "

The only thing more pathetic than this is that in five years the show will be called "13 and Pregnant."