Flavor Flav caught a fade in Vegas and it didn't end well.

According to TMZ, Flavor Flav suffered a beatdown at the hands and feet of a man named Ugandi Howard at the South Point Casino yesterday.

Flav told police that Howard accused him of somehow disrespecting his mother and started punching. Flav then went down -- he says he only hit the ground because he "pulled his groin" -- and Howard began kicking him. 

The 58-year old Public Enemy hype man was hospitalized with what are being described as minor injuries. 

Surveillance video has confirmed Howard threw the first punch, and he has been taken into custody.

[Related: Flavor Flav is pissed that Hannibal Buress kicked him in the face.]