Veteran rapper and ex-reality TV star Flavor Flav has been arrested for assault with a deadly weapon.

The 53-year-old Public Enemy hype-man was allegedly incarcerated in Las Vegas following an altercation in his home with fiancée and her teenage son, which involved a knife.

No one was injured and the rapper (whose real name is William Jonathan Drayton Jr.) is being held on $23,000 bail in Clark County jail.

Flav has been embroiled in a series of recent brushes with the law.