Fatman Scoop, the hip-hop artist who topped charts in Europe with \u201cBe Faithful\u201d in the early 2000s and later lent his distinctive voice and ebullient vibe to hits by artists including Missy Elliott and Ciara, died after collapsing on stage at a show in Connecticut, according to officials and his family. He was 53. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cause of his death wasn\u2019t immediately clear. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was performing at Hamden Town Center Park when he collapsed Friday evening, town chief of staff Sean Grace said Saturday. Mayor Lauren Garrett posted on Facebook that he had a medical emergency. Concertgoers and paramedics tried to aid the artist, who was taken to a hospital, she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His family said in an Instagram post that \u201cthe world lost a radiant soul, a beacon on stage and in life.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With a gravelly voice and dance-floor-friendly sensibility, Fatman Scoop was a mainstay of club playlists around the turn of the millennium. But if the world knew him as the \u201cvoice of the club,\u201d his family cherished him as \u201cthe laughter in our lives, a constant source of support, unwavering strength and courage,\u201d his relatives said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHis music made us dance and embrace life with positivity. His joy was infectious and the generosity he extended to all will be deeply missed but never forgotten,\u201d they added, saying he leaves a legacy \u201cof love and brightness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born Isaac Freeman III, Fatman Scoop was from New York City\u2019s Harlem neighborhood and broke out with 1999\u2019s \u201cBe Faithful.\u201d What started as a minor success in the U.S. took off in Europe with a 2003 re-release, hitting No. 1 on the singles charts in the U.K. and Ireland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next year, he appeared on the U.K. television series \u201cChancers,\u201d in which musicians mentored artists who wanted to make it in the U.S., the BBC reported. He also was a contestant on \u201cCelebrity Big Brother 16: UK vs USA,\u201d which was filmed in the U.K. and aired in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Scoop \u2014 sometimes stylized as Fat Man Scoop or FatMan Scoop \u2014 collaborated with Elliott on \u201cLose Control,\u201d a 2005 song of the summer<\/strong> that also featured Ciara. The track won a short-form music video Grammy at the 2006 award show. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The same year as \u201cLose Control,\u201d he was featured on Mariah Carey\u2019s \u201cIt\u2019s Like That.\u201d He also was featured on tracks from Timbaland, David Guetta, The Situation<\/strong> and Skrillex, among other artists. In 2018, he reunited with Elliott and Ciara for a remix of the latter\u2019s \u201cLevel Up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elliott praised Scoop\u2019s \u201cVOICE and energy\u201d Saturday on X, saying he had contributed to many songs that made people happy over more than two decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYour IMPACT is HUGE & will be NEVER be forgotten,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n His longtime booking agency, MN2S, described him as an artist with \u201cboundless enthusiasm,\u201d a passion for music and a voice and personality that \u201cmade an indelible mark on the industry.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n His MN2S representative, Sharron Elkabas, said in a statement Saturday that she had spoken to him a few days earlier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe was in such good spirits. It\u2019s hard to believe he is no longer with us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fatman Scoop, the hip-hop artist who topped charts in Europe with \u201cBe Faithful\u201d in the early 2000s and later lent his distinctive voice and ebullient vibe to hits by artists including Missy Elliott and Ciara, died after collapsing on stage at a show in Connecticut, according to officials and his family. He was 53. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":43732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[9951,6850,2735,7599,887,834,9331,11503,10552,7234,10505,5241,5494,6621,5468,5455,11501,3270,11502,6825,8394,6449,10634,6220,3130,5331,4995,5058,990,1670,6431,9030,7333,12605,6348,8033,36,594,10353],"class_list":["post-43731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-age","tag-aid","tag-bbc","tag-celebrity","tag-chief-of-staff","tag-ciara","tag-city","tag-connecticut","tag-dance","tag-death","tag-die","tag-died","tag-energy","tag-europe","tag-facebook","tag-family","tag-farman-scoop","tag-grammy","tag-hiphop","tag-hospital","tag-instagram","tag-ireland","tag-lost","tag-love","tag-mariah-carey","tag-mayor","tag-minor","tag-music","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-release","tag-success","tag-summer","tag-uk","tag-us","tag-video","tag-world","tag-who","tag-x"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43733,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43731\/revisions\/43733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}