Disturbing footage showed rapper Fatman Scoop collapsing on stage during a Connecticut concert.
The Be Faithful singer, 53, was seen struggling as he climbed onto a platform during Friday’s performance in Hamden, before passing out.
Fatman Scoop is pictured in brown, moments before he collapsed during a gig in Connecticut Friday night
Screams rang out as the rapper – whose real name is Isaac Freeman III – disappeared from view, sparking frantic efforts to revive him.
Hamden Mayor Lauren Garett said Scoop had been rushed to hospital by ambulance and urged fans to ‘keep him in your thoughts and prayers.’
Those in attendance looked on in horror as the beloved rapper dropped to the floor. The crowd grew silent and people rushed the stage to perform CPR on Fatman Scoop.
Around 8:33pm, authorities were dispatched to the scene. They wheeled the rapper out from venue on a stretcher and rushed him to the hospital, where his condition remains unknown at this time.
Video recorded by people in the audience captured the heart-stopping moment the adored rapper collapsed.
In the footage, Fatman Scoop, who has worked with artists like Missy Elliot and Mariah Carey, rouses the crowd, shouting: ‘let’s make some noise!’
Without his shirt on, the rapper walks toward the back of the stage, where there is a DJ booth.
‘I said Hamden make some noise!’ Fatman Scoop shouted again. Then the hip-hop artist climbs the stairs to the DJ booth, during which he seems to pant into the microphone.
Behind the booth, he looks at the crowd and endeavors to excite them. Spotlights dance around the stage.
‘If you came to party,’ the rapper says, before taking a long pause. ‘Make some noise,’ he adds, his words slurred.
As soon as he finishes speaking, he collapses onto the ground, dropping the microphone.
Across the audience, screams of horror and gasps of fear are heard.
Further updates have not been shared.
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