Flavor Flav helps Olympic discus thrower Veronica Fraley who says she’s struggling to pay rent

SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Vanderbilt discus thrower and Olympian Veronica Fraley mourned on social media that he needs help paying rent.

Hip-hop artist Taste Taste and entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian decided to help.

Shortly after Fraley posted on social media X that she needed financial help, Flav, a founding member of the hip-hop group Public Enemy and an enormous fan of USA Water Polo, responded, “I got you.”

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On top of that, Ohanian, the co-founder of Reddit and husband of tennis star Serena Williams, wrote, “Gotcha!” And he added the identical thing, posting photo of paying $7,760 and writing “Murica”.

In her post, Fraley referenced the incontrovertible fact that her school pays about 75% of her rent, while “they pay the football players (who have not won anything) enough to buy new cars and houses.” She added three “thumbs down” emojis. The Commodores football team was 2-10 last season, and Fraley won the NCAA discus title this season, set a faculty record, and earned a spot on Team USA on the U.S. Olympic track and field qualifiers.

She also arrange a GoFundMe page where she raised $12,041 of her $20,000 goal. She appreciated Flav and Ohanian’s gesture and wrote, “THANK YOU and @SmakFlav SO MUCH. This makes a difference within the WORLD and I hope to represent Team USA well this week.”

Flav said he’ll be rooting for her, adding, “LETZ GO,!!!” The rapper is in Paris as a part of his duties because the official hype man for USA Water Polo — a partnership he formed after connecting with U.S. team captain Maggie Steffens on Instagram in May.

Fraley emphasized in a later post that her criticism was not directed at Vanderbilt.

“Thanks for the supportive messages, but I want to make it clear that my irritation isn’t with the school itself, but rather with the policies that prevent me from earning what I’m WORTH as a college athlete, such as the NIL that favors popularity over performance,” she wrote. “That’s all I’m saying.”