On August 18, 1990, Public Enemy's Fear Of a Black Planet tour rolled into the Myriad Convention Center in Oklahoma City. Joining the New York rappers on the tour were Ice Cube, Heavy D, Queen Latifah and Oakland's Digital Underground, who then featured a young Tupac Shakur as a back-up dancer. For the teenage Tupac, touring with Public Enemy was a dream come true: a couple of years earlier, he'd bunked off school in order to catch Flavor Flav at a local radio station, hoping to get a photo with the rapper, and now he was on tour with his heroes.
In Oklahoma, Tupac proved his loyalty to Public Enemy by helping apprehend a man who'd broken into the band's dressing room, and stolen some of their personal effects, including Chuck D's jacket and plastic Uzi machine guns belonging to PE's Security Of The First World dancers. He also saved Flavor Flav from getting carried away when exacting vengeance upon the thief, as Flav recalls in a new interview with Rolling Stone.
