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Posted inDeaths (Obituaries) Disc Jockeys Fatman Scoop Freeman III, Isaac Hamden (Conn) Hot 97 (WQHT-FM, 97.1) Rap and Hip-Hop Fatman Scoop, a D.J. and Rapper, Dies He was at the Hamden Town Center Park in Hamden, Conn., when he collapsed onstage on Friday night. Posted by By Emmett Lindner
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