Steve Newall: Flicks.co.nz editor on the death of Fatman Scoop

Grammy-winning US rapper Fatman Scoop has died aged 53 after collapsing on stage.

The singer fell while performing in Connecticut, before being rushed to hospital.

Steve Newall from Flicks.co.nz says the rapper was in New Zealand as the official MC for Friday Jams at Auckland’s Western Springs in 2022.

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudgin
from News Talks EDB.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It is time to took Entertainment and we're joined by
Steve Neil, editor at flicks dot co dot MZ.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good morning, good morning, not so good morning for Fat
Man's Scoop. It's safe to say what part of a
very small and very sad club of performers who have
died on stage passed away after collapsing on stage at
a performance in Connecticut. Fat Man Scoop Grammy Award winning
rapper and hype man kind of best known for that

(00:41):
kind of cadence.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yes really fifty three was he?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, And footage from the event shows
the sort of surreal moments that follow sort of keels
over behind the DJ birth and then the sort of
whole show stops.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Think you to it. It was interinally comes to New Zealand. Yeah,
he was zero.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
He was out here on one of the kind of
big line up sort of retro R and B fests.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
One was that that gets one we do, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (01:14):
That was? It was a Western Springs. It was Friday
Jams at Western Springs X like TLC and Acon and such. Yeah, well, look,
possibly best on for us, Missy Elliott collaboration. We heard
a track in his own right, be faithful as we
went into the segment just then.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
And I'm sure there'll be a few of you who
are fond of him, so will be able to pull
out the Spotify and heaven listen and remember him now. Terminator,
there was a new series for Netflix? Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Yeah? Correct? And Terminate is one of those franchises that
definitely has sort of built in lots of highs and
lows over its many filmed incarnations. A new Netflix anime
series offers an interesting sort of new take on the
subject material set in late nineties Japan, around the same
around the time of the events of Judgment Day of

(02:07):
the Terminator film series, at the same time as let's
get nerdy for a second. At the same time that Skynett,
the artificial intelligence comes online and decides instantaneously that humanity
should be wiped out and there's too much of a
threat to exist, a scientist in Japan is developing a
rival AI in the hopes of stopping this catastrophe. Of course,

(02:29):
it wouldn't be Terminator if some metallic killing machines weren't
sent back in time as well, and stylistically like it
very much has the look of anime, sort of quite
nineties in its style. There is an English language dub
with actors like Timothy Oliphant in the cast, so there's
a couple of options there. But I enjoyed this new

(02:51):
chance tell a story inside the Terminator universe, and it
being a series of eight sort of twenty two minuteish
long episodes made for pretty good pacing. I quite enjoyed this.
All of the lot of the ideas were terminated, the
biomechanical enemy, the notions around artificial intelligence, and the sort

(03:11):
of apocalyptic future all sit really well with animation, and
so it's a nice, nice vehicle to tell these stories.
I think if you think cartoons for kids and this
isn't for you, well, if you're a Terminator fan, you
may find this more enjoyable than some of the film installments.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
But actually does it work because of that format, Because
because you wonder whether there's actually enough story within the
Terminator universe to put out another live action kind of version,
completely agree.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
And it also offers an opportunity to do something on
screen without any original cast members, so there's all new.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Characters, flexibility story.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, the Japanese settings interesting as well, because if you
sort of think about those rampages that Annie went on
in the first couple of Terminator films being chased by
a killer robot in the United States, well, you just
go to the gun shop, aren't you. But back in Japan,
firearm access is more restrictent, So sort of right off
the bat, there's sort of a different element to the

(04:10):
survival aspects of this film. Sorry, of the show, I
enjoyed it, bit different, but deffinitely reminiscent of all the
right things.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Okay, so that new Terminator series is on Netflix now.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
On Netflix and its entirety. Yeah, I enjoyed watching that
in a couple of settings over the last couple of days.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
And yeah, and it is nice. It is nice to
have a binge, isn't it. So many of the streaming
services now they're just drip feeding us, like you know,
linear traditional television.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
So hang on. Recently they invented doing live broadcasts. Ano,
they've invented a weekly episode.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
That going back in time. I'm glad you agree with me.
Good to catch up with your Steve will catch up
next week

Speaker 1 (04:48):
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