Rapper Fatman Scoop Has Medical Emergency, Collapses on Stagetheinsiderinsight

Fatman Scoop was taken to hospital after he collapsed whereas performing in live performance. 

The rapper, whose actual identify is Isaac Freeman III, collapsed onstage throughout a gig he performed on the City Middle Park in Hamden, Conn., on Friday, Aug. 30, Mayor Lauren Garrett confirmed in a submit on Facebook.

“Tonight, whereas acting at Hamden City Middle Park, Isaac Freeman, aka Fatman Scoop, had a medical emergency on stage,” Garrett wrote of the 53-year-old artist. “He’s being transported by ambulance to the hospital. We’ll present updates when they’re accessible. Please maintain him in your ideas and prayers.”

Authorities had been referred to as in to the placement for a medical emergency at 8:33 p.m., TMZ reported on Aug, 30. Hamden Police Division didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for additional data.

In footage posted of the incident on X (previously Twitter), Freeman appeared shirtless as he walked from the entrance of the stage to the again the place a raised DJ sales space was positioned. He stepped up on the sales space, saying right into a microphone, “I stated, Hamden make some noise!” 

The rapper then stood beside the DJ whereas leaning ahead on the sales space. “Means down,” Freeman continued. “For those who got here to social gathering … make some noise …” He then leaned to his facet, knocking into the DJ, as he fell to the bottom behind the sales space.

In footage from the live performance shared by TMZ, what appeared to medics in high-vis vests gave chest compressions to Freeman as he lay immobile behind the sales space whereas concertgoers watched on.
 
One concertgoer was additionally heard saying within the clip “They doing CPR.”

In the direction of the top of the clip, one other concertgoer filmed as extra folks tended to Freeman whereas showing to maneuver him from the stage, seemingly to be transported to the hospital. “Oh my god,” the person filming was heard saying.

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No additional particulars of Freeman’s situation have been launched and representatives for Freeman didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.