Connecticut: US rapper Fatman Scoop passed away on Friday night in Connecticut at the age of 53 following a collapse during his show. He fell to the ground on stage at Town Center Park in the city of Hamden midway through his performance. The 53 year old rapper was brought to a nearby hospital and later declared dead. He is best recognized for his work with Missy Elliott and Ciara on the 2005 hit song Lose Control and on Mariah Carey’s It’s Like That.
Fatman Scoop’s Personal Life
In New York City’s Harlem, Fatman Scoop was born and raised. Due to his love of ice cream, Freeman took on the stage name Fatman Scoop, which he received as a childhood nickname from his Uncle Jack. When the song “Be Faithful,” featuring the Crooklyn Clan, was released, he initially gained fame. Freeman was a father of two. He was once married to Shanda Freeman. After married for 13 years, they got divorced.
Fatman Scoop’s Career
Isaac Freeman III, better known as Scoop, is recognized for having played a significant role in the 1990s hip hop culture in New York City. Popular songs featuring him include Mariah Carey’s It’s Like That and Missy Elliott’s Lose Control, which won a Grammy. Be Faithful, a sleeper hit that Scoop launched in 1999 and achieved international popularity in 2003 by topping the charts in Ireland and the UK, is what made him famous.
Rapper appeared on Channel 4’s UK TV show Chancers in 2004, which had musicians coaching up-and-coming UK musicians hoping to make it big in the US. In addition, Fatman Scoop competed on the UK-hosted Celebrity Big Brother 16: UK vs. USA show in 2015. The American hip-hop duo Crooklyn Clan produced the re-release of Be Faithful, which peaked at number one on the charts in 2003 and gave Fatman Scoop his first hit in the UK and Ireland.
In Denmark and Australia, it made the top 10. It took years for the song, a mashup of Faith Evans’ Love Like This, which was created from a looped sample of Chic’s 1978 song Chic Cheer, to get approved for widespread release because it had so many more samples. Evans later revealed to the Times that when someone put on Fatman’s music, her husband, the Notorious BIG, had been traveling to St. Tropez.
